Distribution of knowledge of health effects of smoking and constituents of tobacco smoke by education and income*
| Smoking causes: | Nicotine causes most of cancer | Tobacco smoke contains: | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Heart disease | Stroke | Impotence | Lung cancer | Cyanide | Mercury | Arsenic | Carbon monoxide | ||
| Source: Weighted data from International Tobacco Control Four Country Survey Wave 1, 2002. | |||||||||
| *All numbers are percentages. | |||||||||
| USA | |||||||||
| Education | |||||||||
| Low | 83.7 | 71.6 | 33.7 | 93.5 | 50.8 | 45.9 | 15.1 | 39.1 | 81.7 |
| Medium | 87.0 | 74.1 | 35.9 | 95.4 | 41.0 | 54.8 | 17.8 | 42.5 | 87.7 |
| High | 88.8 | 76.4 | 31.0 | 93.6 | 30.0 | 62.8 | 22.3 | 52.3 | 88.0 |
| Income | |||||||||
| Low | 85.3 | 72.1 | 32.7 | 93.8 | 51.4 | 43.3 | 15.8 | 36.2 | 83.6 |
| Medium | 87.1 | 74.3 | 36.9 | 96.0 | 43.4 | 52.8 | 16.7 | 42.5 | 86.8 |
| High | 88.5 | 74.2 | 32.8 | 95.1 | 32.2 | 65.7 | 19.7 | 51.4 | 86.9 |
| CANADA | |||||||||
| Education | |||||||||
| Low | 89.9 | 81.0 | 55.2 | 93.5 | 49.1 | 68.8 | 25.4 | 52.2 | 89.6 |
| Medium | 91.5 | 84.5 | 62.4 | 95.9 | 33.5 | 75.3 | 26.6 | 62.4 | 92.2 |
| High | 92.6 | 83.6 | 67.2 | 96.7 | 32.0 | 73.3 | 26.2 | 63.2 | 90.4 |
| Income | |||||||||
| Low | 87.2 | 79.2 | 54.9 | 93.2 | 45.7 | 67.8 | 25.7 | 49.6 | 91.9 |
| Medium | 90.5 | 82.4 | 59.4 | 94.8 | 42.3 | 71.4 | 26.5 | 60.2 | 89.6 |
| High | 95.2 | 87.6 | 65.3 | 97.4 | 31.6 | 77.7 | 27.1 | 65.0 | 91.4 |
| UK | |||||||||
| Education | |||||||||
| Low | 88.5 | 69.2 | 32.2 | 92.7 | 55.8 | 21.5 | 10.0 | 14.7 | 58.6 |
| Medium | 91.0 | 73.0 | 38.0 | 94.7 | 44.8 | 27.0 | 11.9 | 18.4 | 71.5 |
| High | 92.2 | 70.6 | 53.9 | 96.8 | 25.3 | 40.0 | 13.9 | 26.8 | 82.6 |
| Income | |||||||||
| Low | 84.3 | 64.2 | 31.1 | 90.5 | 57.4 | 21.3 | 10.9 | 17.1 | 57.7 |
| Medium | 91.5 | 74.7 | 35.8 | 95.7 | 47.3 | 26.4 | 11.1 | 17.1 | 65.9 |
| High | 93.8 | 73.3 | 43.5 | 96.8 | 39.4 | 29.4 | 10.4 | 18.3 | 72.4 |
| AUSTRALIA | |||||||||
| Education | |||||||||
| Low | 88.0 | 80.3 | 34.4 | 93.6 | 50.6 | 42.6 | 16.0 | 39.3 | 80.3 |
| Medium | 90.4 | 80.8 | 34.8 | 95.5 | 34.2 | 43.9 | 17.4 | 44.7 | 85.9 |
| High | 89.1 | 83.0 | 43.3 | 95.8 | 30.3 | 54.8 | 19.8 | 44.0 | 90.1 |
| Income | |||||||||
| Low | 85.9 | 78.4 | 35.6 | 91.6 | 51.9 | 41.4 | 19.3 | 37.9 | 80.6 |
| Medium | 89.2 | 81.1 | 34.5 | 94.4 | 43.0 | 45.2 | 18.1 | 43.0 | 83.6 |
| High | 91.1 | 83.6 | 37.3 | 96.5 | 40.1 | 48.0 | 13.2 | 43.5 | 84.0 |