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Table 4 Percentage (95% CI) of men’s daily smokers who have correct knowledge of smoking causing diseases

From: Current manufactured cigarette smoking and roll-your-own cigarette smoking in Thailand: findings from the 2009 Global Adult Tobacco Survey

 

Manufactured

Roll-your-own

Dual users

Diseases

Cigarette smokers only

Cigarette smokers only

 

Stroke

83.3

(80.4, 85.9)

73.3

(69.2, 77.1)

82.7

(77.5, 87.0)

Heart Attack

76.6

(73.4, 79.6)

69.3

(65.3, 73.1)

74.6

(68.7, 79.8)

Lung Cancer

97.1

(95.5, 98.1)

94.5

(92.6, 96.0)

97.3

(95.7, 98.4)

Mouth Cancer

93.6

(91.8, 95.0)

85.9

(82.7, 88.6)

92.8

(90.3, 94.6)

Larynx Cancer

94.8

(93.0, 96.1)

85.7

(82.4, 88.5)

92.2

(88.3, 94.9)

Impotence

70.4

(67.1, 73.5)

59.4

(55.2, 63.5)

72.9

(66.9, 78.2)

Emphysema

92.8

(90.0, 94.9)

84.7

(81.1, 87.7)

87.9

(82.7, 91.6)

Answer all above questions correctly

57.7

(54.0, 61.4)

49.0

(44.5, 53.4)

59.0

(53.0, 64.7)

Knowledge score*

6.1

(5.9, 6.2)

5.5

(5.3, 5.7)

6.0

(5.8, 6.2)

  1. *The number of knowledge questions correctly answered.