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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Jul 1.
Published in final edited form as: Int J Public Health. 2016 Mar 14;61(6):709–715. doi: 10.1007/s00038-016-0805-0

Table 2. Responses to Tested Health Warning Labels, South Carolina, USA, 2014 (N=367).

Ever
Waterpipe
Smoker
(N=262)		 Current
Waterpipe
Smoker
(N=105)		 p-value
A. Text only warnings (%) (%)
1. WARNING: Hookah smoking is addictive 17.6 14.3 0.447
2. WARNING: Hookah smoke can harm your children 55.3 54.3 0.854
3. WARNING: Hookah smoking causes fatal lung
 disease		 49.6 38.1 0.045
4. WARNING: Hookah smoking causes cancer 48.5 41.9 0.254
5. WARNING: Hookah smoking causes strokes and
 heart disease		 46.2 31.4 0.001
6. WARNING: Hookah smoking during pregnancy can
 harm your baby		 68.7 64.8 0.466
7. WARNING: Hookah smoking can kill you 40.8 29.5 0.043
8. WARNING: Hookah smoke causes fatal lung disease
 in nonsmokers		 36.3 26.7 0.079
9. WARNING: Quitting hookah smoking now greatly
 reduces serious risks to your health		 42.8 37.1 0.324
B. Pictorial warnings
graphic file with name nihms-768712-t0001.jpg 32.8 14.3 <0.001
graphic file with name nihms-768712-t0002.jpg 57.6 43.8 0.016
graphic file with name nihms-768712-t0003.jpg 53.8 52.4 0.803
graphic file with name nihms-768712-t0004.jpg 32.1 17.1 0.004