Table 1.
Response to nicotine belief items by latent class in adults aged 18–40 (n = 4037)
| Class 1 “Large role in health risks” (n = 2070; 52%) | Class 2 “Don’t Know; large role in health risks” (n = 382; 11%) | Class 3 “Small role in health risks” (n = 1277; 30%) | Class 4 “None/small part of cancer caused by nicotine” (n = 308; 7%) | Total (n = 4037) | p | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weighted % | Weighted % | Weighted % | Weighted % | Weighted % | ||
| Nicotine is a cause of cancer. | <.001 | |||||
| True | 84.5 | 0.0 | 23.5 | 17.4 | 51.8 | |
| False | 6.5 | 0.0 | 43.5 | 54.6 | 20.2 | |
| Don’t know | 8.9 | 100.0 | 33.1 | 27.9 | 28.0 | |
| The claim that a cigarette brand is low in nicotine means that it is less addictive. | <.001 | |||||
| True | 15.2 | 0.0 | 23.2 | 21.6 | 16.3 | |
| False | 70.4 | 0.0 | 56.4 | 48.4 | 56.5 | |
| Don’t know | 14.4 | 100.0 | 20.4 | 30.0 | 27.3 | |
| According to you, how large a part of the health risks of cigarette smoking come from the nicotine itself? | <.001 | |||||
| None or a very small part | 0.8 | 1.3 | 2.7 | 54.7 | 5.5 | |
| A relatively small part | 3.2 | 5.0 | 80.1 | 36.8 | 28.7 | |
| A relatively large/very large part/all | 96.0 | 93.7 | 17.2 | 8.5 | 65.8 | |
| According to you, how large a part of the cancer caused by cigarette smoking comes from the nicotine itself? | <.001 | |||||
| None or a very small part | 0.0 | 0.8 | 0.0 | 100.0 | 7.7 | |
| A relatively small part | 3.6 | 8.1 | 96.0 | 0.0 | 31.1 | |
| A relatively large/very large part/all | 96.4 | 91.2 | 4.0 | 0.0 | 61.2 |