Noticing cigarette health warnings and support for new health warnings among non-smokers in China: findings from the International Tobacco Control project (ITC) China survey

Table 3 Characteristics associated with whether non-smokers reported they support government including pictures as part of the health warning labels (N = 1324)

	N	Support pictures (%)	p	OR	95% CI
City
Beijing	202	73.59%	ref	ref	ref
Shenyang	187	82.59%	0.170	1.77	0.78–4.05
Shanghai	196	70.22%	0.702	0.84	0.33–2.12
Changsha	180	90.86%	0.013^a	3.22	1.28–8.07
Guangzhou	191	82.15%	0.159	1.69	0.81–3.50
Kunming	180	87.05%	0.039^a	2.42	1.05–5.60
Yinchuan	188	76.07%	0.704	1.14	0.58–2.25
Ethnicity
Others	97	75.46%	ref	ref	ref
Han nationality	1227	80.48%	0.155	1.62	0.83–3.17
Gender
Male	495	78.65%	ref	ref	ref
Female	829	81.29%	0.555	0.90	0.64–1.27
Age (years)
18–39	248	86.67%	ref	ref	ref
40–54	438	83.03%	0.899	0.97	0.56–1.65
55+	638	76.34%	0.145	0.71	0.44–1.13
Household Income per month (yuan)
Low/Medium	487	80.19%	ref	ref	ref
High	837	80.14%	0.440	1.19	0.77–1.84
Education
Low/Medium	894	79.40%	ref	ref	ref
High	430	81.99%	0.767	0.94	0.64–1.39
Smoking spouse/partner
No smoking spouse/partner	721	77.46%	ref	ref	ref
Have smoking spouse/partner	415	87.97%	0.005^a	2.03	1.24–3.33
No spouse/partner	188	78.07%	0.793	1.07	1.04–3.86
Noticed warning labels in last month
Less than Often	1152	78.75%	ref	ref	ref
Often	172	90.33%	0.039^a	2.00	1.04–3.86
Number of smoking friends
0	409	78.85%	ref	ref	ref
1	238	78.84%	0.719	0.89	0.47–1.69
2	264	80.35%	0.643	0.88	0.49–1.55
3	232	81.11%	0.818	1.07	0.60–1.92
4	69	81.25%	0.748	1.14	0.50–2.62
5	112	84.17%	0.885	0.94	0.38–2.29
Surveyed before/after new HWLs apply
Before	1100	79.88%	ref	ref	ref
After	224	81.31%	0.362	0.80	0.50–1.29

CI, Confidence interval; Significant levels are indicated as follows: *p < 0.05; **p < 0.001,***p < 0.0001
OR, Odd Ratio of supporting government including pictures as part of health warnings (0, refused/don’t know/neither support nor oppose/oppose/strongly oppose; 1, support/strongly support)
Survey before/after new HWLs apply, Before (before 01/04/2012); After (after 01/04/2012)
Support for including pictures, Respondents who reported they support government should include pictures as part of health warning labels
^aThe percentage are weighted and the frequencies are unweighted

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