Table 4.
Knowledge of health consequences of tobacco smoking by different channels of accessing to information
| Access to positive information** | Access to negative information*** | |||||
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| Knowledge of health consequences of tobacco smoking | Percentage (95% CI*) | Percentage (95% CI*) | ||||
| Smoking causes | No | Yes | No | Yes | ||
| Serious illness | 76.3 (67.5–83.3) | 96.2 (94.9–97.2) | 93.2 (90.9–94.9) | 94.7 (90.1–97.2) | ||
| Stroke | 41.1 (34.5–48.0) | 71.8 (69.7–73.7) | 66.5 (63.5–69.3) | 75.1 (70.0–79.7) | ||
| Heart attack | 37.9 (32.0–44.3) | 64.5 (62.5–66.4) | 59.6 (56.9–62.2) | 69.6 (64.7–74.0) | ||
| Lung cancer | 83.4 (77.7–87.9) | 97.7 (97.1–98.1) | 95.4 (94.1–96.5) | 97.8 (96.6–98.6) | ||
| Stroke, heart attack, and lung cancer | 27.0 (21.9–32.7) | 55.5 (53.4–57.6) | 50.1 (47.3–52.9) | 60.0 (55.1–64.7) | ||
| Breathing other people's smoke cause serious illness in non-smokers | 59.0 (52.0–65.6) | 87.9 (86.0–89.6) | 83.4 (80.9–85.6) | 86.6 (82.2–90.0) | ||
*
95% confidence interval.
**
Access to positive information channel in the last 30 days (information about health consequences of smoking or encouragement to quit; health warnings on cigarette packages).
***
Access to negative information channel in the last 30 days (cigarette advertisement through media, cigarette advertisement events, cigarette promotion).
N=9,919 individuals from 656 PSUs of 6 strata.