Table 4.
Association between smoking and SHS exposure related knowledge, and perceptions of e-cigarette use, rural areas of Taizhou and Dali, China 2018
| Variables |
Relative harmfulness |
Benefits |
Addictiveness |
||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Less harm mean±SD | Equal or more harm mean±SD | p | Helpful to quit smoking mean±SD | Otherwise mean±SD | p | Yes mean±SD | Otherwise mean±SD | p | |
| Smoking increases the risk of lung cancer | 4.39±0.92 | 4.29±1.05 | 0.2782 | 4.49±0.87 | 4.14±1.11 | <0.0001 | 4.35±0.96 | 4.33±1.01 | 0.8605 |
| Smoking increases the risk of COPD | 4.37±0.90 | 4.18±1.11 | 0.0331 | 4.41±0.90 | 4.16±1.06 | 0.0027 | 4.31±0.95 | 4.29±1.00 | 0.8766 |
| Smoking increases the risk of heart diseases | 4.03±1.15 | 3.86±1.18 | 0.1091 | 4.09±1.12 | 3.78±1.26 | 0.0020 | 3.96±1.20 | 3.95±1.19 | 0.9133 |
| Concerned about the harmful effects of SHS exposure to children’s health | 4.48±0.91 | 4.30±1.08 | 0.0403 | 4.52±0.89 | 4.30±1.07 | 0.0074 | 4.59±0.95 | 4.39±0.98 | 0.0967 |
| SHS exposure from smokers can cause lung cancer in non-smokers | 3.25±1.53 | 3.10±1.61 | 0.2711 | 3.33±1.50 | 2.99±1.68 | 0.0105 | 3.38±1.47 | 3.13±1.61 | 0.2106 |
| SHS exposure from smoker is harmful to infant and children’s health | 4.23±0.86 | 4.12±1.07 | 0.1830 | 4.28±0.87 | 4.10±1.04 | 0.0189 | 4.31±0.94 | 4.19±0.94 | 0.2657 |
| SHS exposure from smoker is harmful to adults’ health | 4.06±0.87 | 3.87±1.14 | 0.0302 | 4.10±0.91 | 3.81±1.13 | 0.0010 | 3.98±1.01 | 3.97±1.01 | 0.9621 |
| Smoking around your children would cause adverse health effects among children | 4.19±0.87 | 4.14±1.02 | 0.5751 | 4.24±0.87 | 4.12±1.00 | 0.1202 | 4.29±0.96 | 4.17±0.92 | 0.2811 |
| Mean total score of smoking and SHS exposure related knowledge | 4.15±0.66 | 4.03±0.81 | 0.0947 | 4.21±0.66 | 3.97±0.78 | 0.0002 | 4.19±0.64 | 4.08±0.73 | 0.2609 |
*p for Student’s t-tests.