Table 6

Awareness of smoking images in entertainment media and attitudes towards the tobacco industry among smokers (n=4763), by city

Total (n=4763), %Beijing (n=793), %Shenyang (n=789), %Shanghai (n=792), %Changsha (n=801), %Guangzhou (n=795), %Yinchuan (n=793), %
See people smoking in the entertainment media
 Once in a while27.927.923.126.033.934.721.7
 Often51.553.153.250.648.141.562.4
Tobacco companies do good things for the Chinese society (agree+strongly agree)50.358.155.152.146.138.651.6
  • Group differences for all the individual variables of interest were significant at p<0.001 level based on the Pearson χ2 test.