Table 5.

Characteristics associated with high support for tobacco control, all countries combined

Variable/category	Frequency a N (%)	Bivariate OR [95% CI]	Multivariate OR [95% CI]
Country:
Kyrgyzstan	350 (22.4)	Ref	Ref
Armenia	155 (9.1)	0.35 [0.25; 0.47] **	0.33 [0.23; 0.46] **
Azerbaijan	246 (18.1)	0.76 [0.56; 1.04]	0.84 [0.60; 1.17]
Belarus	305 (19.6)	0.84 [0.64; 1.11]	0.71 [0.53; 0.95] *
Georgia	158 (8.5)	0.32 [0.24; 0.43] **	0.29 [0.21; 0.40] **
Kazakhstan	296 (17.6)	0.74 [0.57; 0.97] *	0.55 [0.40; 0.75] **
Moldova	501 (32.5)	1.66 [1.29; 2.16] **	1.49 [1.13; 1.95] **
Russia	427 (18.1)	0.76 [0.61; 0.96] *	0.74 [0.58; 0.95] *
Ukraine	269 (15.9)	0.65 [0.51; 0.84] **	0.58 [0.44; 0.76] **
Gender:
Men	903 (13.0)	Ref	Ref
Women	1804 (21.6)	1.79 [1.63; 1.97] **	1.13 [1.01; 1.26] *
Age group:
18–29	767 (17.3)	Ref	Ref
30–39	477 (15.9)	0.92 [0.80; 1.06]	0.98 [0.85; 1.13]
40–49	491 (16.6)	0.98 [0.85; 1.13]	1.01 [0.87; 1.17]
50–59	450 (19.1)	1.10 [0.96; 1.27]	1.07 [0.92; 1.25]
60+	522 (20.4)	1.27 [1.10; 1.47] **	1.19 [1.01; 1.39] *
Education:
Secondary or less	1232 (17.0)	Ref	Ref
Vocational/some higher education	813 (18.0)	1.02 [0.91; 1.14]	1.03 [0.91; 1.17]
Completed higher education	660 (18.7)	1.10 [0.96; 1.25]	1.11 [0.97; 1.26]
Living location:
Urban	1532 (16.6)	Ref	Ref
Rural	1175 (19.2)	1.19 [1.02; 1.39]*	1.04 [0.90; 1.19]
Household economic status:
Bad/very bad	497 (16.9)	Ref	Ref
Average	1466 (16.8)	0.97 [0.83; 1.12]	0.86 [0.75; 1.00]
Good/very good	720 (20.4)	1.31 [1.11; 1.55] **	1.08 [0.90; 1.29]
Member of an organisation:
Not a member	1908 (16.9)	Ref	Ref
Member	543 (18.5)	1.08 [0.93; 1.25]	1.44 [1.20; 1.72] **
Active member	237 (23.7)	1.60 [1.33; 1.93] **	1.49 [1.23; 1.81] **
Tobacco health effects knowledge: b
Score 0–2	778 (13.9)	Ref	Ref
Score 3	607 (16.8)	1.34 [1.17; 1.53] **	1.31 [1.13; 1.51] **
Score 4	518 (18.8)	1.56 [1.33; 1.84] **	1.53 [1.29; 1.80] **
Score 5–7	804 (23.9)	2.10 [1.79; 2.45] **	2.01 [1.72; 2.35] **
Smoking status:
Current smoker	248 (5.8)	Ref	Ref
Former smoker	263 (17.1)	3.46 [2.80; 4.28] **	3.12 [2.51; 3.86] **
Never smoked	2188 (23.2)	5.22 [4.43; 6.15] **	4.51 [3.78; 5.39] **

^*P<0.05.

^**P<0.01

^aFrequency of respondents in each variable category with a high support score for tobacco control (score of 3–4). The tobacco control support outcome was the tobacco control support score dichotomised into being supportive (scores of 3–4) or not being supportive (scores of 0–2) of tobacco control.

^bKnowledge score on the health effects of tobacco categorised into 4 groups based upon an even distribution of responses producing score ranges of 0 to 2; 3; 4; and 5 to 7.