Table 1.
Response to warnings on cigarettes by smoking status (weighted)
| Total | Current Smoker | Experimenter /Past Smoker |
Never Smoker | Chi-square p valuea |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| (n) | % | (n) | % | (n) | % | (n) | % | ||
| Would put people off starting to smoke (codes 1 and 2) | (844) | 71% | (42) | 47% | (95) | 64% | (690) | 75% | p<0.001 |
| Would put people off starting to smoke (1) | (648) | 55% | (28) | 32% | (68) | 46% | (539) | 58% | |
| (2) | (196) | 16% | (14) | 16% | (27) | 18% | (151) | 16% | |
| (3) | (159) | 13% | (17) | 19% | (18) | 12% | (117) | 13% | |
| (4) | (76) | 6% | (17) | 19% | (12) | 8% | (45) | 5% | |
| Would not put people off starting to smoke (5) | (110) | 9% | (13) | 14% | (24) | 16% | (71) | 8% | |
| Median | 1 | 3 | 2 | 1 | |||||
| Mean | 1.99 | 2.69 | 2.30 | 1.87 | |||||
| Standard Deviation | 1.33 | 1.45 | 1.50 | 1.26 | |||||
| Valid Nb (weighted) | 1190 | 88 | 148 | 924 | |||||
| Valid Nb (unweighted) | 1190 | 82 | 142 | 937 | |||||
| Would make people want to give up smoking (codes 1 and 2) | (620) | 53% | (28) | 32% | (73) | 49% | (507) | 56% | p<0.001 |
| Would make people want to give up smoking (1) | (402) | 34% | (12) | 13% | (39) | 26% | (344) | 38% | |
| (2) | (218) | 19% | (17) | 19% | (34) | 23% | (164) | 18% | |
| (3) | (267) | 23% | (31) | 36% | (38) | 25% | (188) | 21% | |
| (4) | (133) | 11% | (14) | 16% | (17) | 11% | (100) | 11% | |
| Would not make people want to give up smoking (5) | (153) | 13% | (14) | 16% | (21) | 14% | (115) | 13% | |
| Median | 2 | 3 | 3 | 2 | |||||
| Mean | 2.50 | 3.03 | 2.65 | 2.43 | |||||
| Standard Deviation | 1.40 | 1.25 | 1.36 | 1.41 | |||||
| Valid Nb (weighted) | 1174 | 87 | 148 | 910 | |||||
| Valid Nb (unweighted) | 1174 | 81 | 142 | 922 | |||||
| All cigarettes should have a warning on them (codes 1 and 2) | (1007) | 85% | (45) | 51% | (114) | 77% | (822) | 89% | p<0.001 |
| All cigarettes should have a health warning on them (1) | (888) | 75% | (33) | 37% | (102) | 69% | (735) | 80% | |
| (2) | (119) | 10% | (13) | 14% | (12) | 8% | (87) | 9% | |
| (3) | (109) | 9% | (18) | 20% | (28) | 19% | (60) | 6% | |
| (4) | (34) | 3% | (12) | 14% | (4) | 3% | (17) | 2% | |
| No cigarettes should have a health warning on them (5) | (40) | 3% | (13) | 15% | (2) | 1% | (25) | 3% | |
| Median | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | |||||
| Mean | 1.50 | 2.55 | 1.59 | 1.39 | |||||
| Standard Deviation | 1 | 1.47 | 0.97 | 0.89 | |||||
| Valid Nb (weighted) | 1190 | 88 | 148 | 924 | |||||
| Valid Nb (unweighted) | 1191 | 82 | 142 | 937 | |||||
a
Chi-square test on the binary coded response to each item (codes 1 and 2 v codes 3, 4 and 5), by smoking status.
P-values are quoted for the weighted data but analysis run on unweighted data produced the same p values.
b
Missing cases (“Don’t know” and “not stated” responses) are excluded from the above table.