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Table 1 Sociodemographic characteristics of survey participants (smokers) by pictorial HWL theme

From: The association between viewing cigarette health warning labels and intention to quit smoking among Chinese adult smokers: support for including health outcome content and culturally specific messages

 

Total

(N = 1625)

Self-harm from using cigarettes

(n = 395)

Harming family /children with SHS

(n = 408)

Reinforcing compliance with existing smoke-free policies

(n = 395)

Anti-cigarette gift giving

P value

(n = 427)

n (%)

n (%)

n (%)

n (%)

n (%)

 

City

     

0.95

Beijing

545 (33.5)

138 (34.9)

137 (33.6)

132 (33.4)

138 (32.3)

 

Shanghai

541 (33.3)

123 (31.1)

140 (34.3)

130 (32.9)

148 (34.7)

 

Shenzhen

539 (33.2)

134 (33.9)

131 (32.1)

133 (33.7)

141 (33.0)

 

Gender

     

0.87

Male

814 (50.1)

202 (51.1)

199 (48.8)

195 (49.4)

218 (51.1)

 

Female

811 (49.9)

193 (48.9)

209 (51.2)

200 (50.6)

209 (48.9)

 

Age

     

0.51

18–29

381 (23.4)

95 (24.1)

97 (23.8)

97 (24.6)

92 (21.5)

 

30–39

434 (26.7)

111 (28.1)

117 (28.7)

92 (23.3)

114 (26.7)

 

40–49

469 (28.9)

120 (30.4)

101 (24.8)

124 (31.4)

124 (29.0)

 

50–59

267 (16.4)

56 (14.2)

71 (17.4)

64 (16.2)

76 (17.8)

 

60+

74 (4.6)

13 (3.3)

22 (5.4)

18 (4.6)

21 (4.9)

 

Annual household income

     

0.70

< 50,000 RMB

207 (12.7)

44 (11.1)

59 (14.5)

50 (12.7)

54 (12.6)

 

50,000-100,000 RMB

317 (19.5)

81 (20.5)

65 (15.9)

81 (20.5)

90 (21.1)

 

100,000 RMB

264 (16.2)

58 (14.7)

72 (17.6)

63 (15.9)

71 (16.6)

 

100,000-150,000 RMB

366 (22.5)

83 (21.0)

97 (23.8)

94 (23.8)

92 (21.5)

 

150,000-200,000 RMB

284 (17.5)

79 (20.0)

68 (16.7)

68 (17.2)

69 (16.2)

 

> 200,000 RMB

185 (11.4)

50 (12.7)

47 (11.5)

37 (9.4)

51 (11.9)

 

Missing

2 (0.1)

0 (0)

0 (0)

2 (0.5)

0 (0)

 

Education

     

0.37

Primary school or less

48 (3.0)

10 (2.5)

13 (3.2)

12 (3.0)

13 (3.0)

 

Secondary school

212 (13.0)

57 (14.4)

46 (11.3)

43 (10.9)

66 (15.5)

 

High school or voc school

601 (37.0)

131 (33.2)

160 (39.2)

147 (37.2)

163 (38.2)

 

College or more

759 (46.7)

196 (49.6)

189 (46.3)

191 (48.4)

183 (42.9)

 

Missing

5 (0.3)

1 (0.3)

0 (0)

2 (0.5)

2 (0.5)

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