Table 5

For students who had seen a cigarette pack in past 6 months, mean frequency of reading, attending to, thinking about and talking about health warnings and for students with smoking experience, the frequency of not having a cigarette or thinking about quitting in response to the warnings in 2011 and 2013, by smoking status (weighted data)

Smoking stageF statistic and p values*
NSNSSNSESCSTotalYearSmoking statusInteraction year and smoking status
Mean (SE)Mean (SE)Mean (SE)Mean (SE)Mean (SE)
2011 (weighted N)(2150)(349)(830)(405)(3733)F(1,183)=F(3,183)=F(3,183)=
2013 (weighted N)(2558)(353)(653)(286)(3851)
Read warnings
 20112.58 (0.04)2.50 (0.07)2.51 (0.04)2.60 (0.06)2.56 (0.03)0.03, p=0.872.74, p=0.0451.07, p=0.36
 20132.57 (0.05)2.48 (0.07)2.50 (0.06)2.59 (0.07)2.55 (0.04)
Paid close attention
 20112.77 (0.04)2.59 (0.07)2.62 (0.05)2.37 (0.05)2.68 (0.03)0.70, p=0.405.96, p<0.0010.83, p=0.48
 20132.73 (0.05)2.55 (0.07)2.58 (0.06)2.32 (0.06)2.66 (0.05)
Thought about warnings
 20112.62 (0.04)2.40 (0.05)2.53 (0.04)2.43 (0.06)2.56 (0.03)1.91, p=0.174.64, p=0.0040.41, p=0.75
 20132.68 (0.04)2.46 (0.06)2.59 (0.05)2.49 (0.07)2.63 (0.04)
Talk about warnings
 20112.06 (0.03)1.92 (0.05)2.05 (0.04)2.12 (0.05)2.05 (0.02)0.34, p=0.564.66, p=0.0031.47, p=0.22
 20132.03 (0.04)1.89 (0.06)2.02 (0.04)2.09 (0.06)2.02 (0.03)
Not had a cigarette
 20112.60 (0.06)1.65 (0.06)2.29 (0.04)0.042, p=0.52161.98, p<0.0011.27, p=0.26
 20132.65 (0.09)1.69 (0.08)2.35 (0.08)
Among students who had smoked in previous 12 months
Thought about quitting
 2011 (weighted N)(437)(364)(801)F(1,175)=F(1,175)=F(1,175)=
 2013 (weighted N)(403)(285)(688)
 20112.58 (0.09)2.49 (0.06)2.53 (0.06)1.16, p=0.280.67, p=0.420.94, p=0.33
 20132.47 (0.08)2.38 (0.07)2.42 (0.06)
  • Responses measured on a five-point scale from 1 ‘never’ to 5 ‘every time I see them’.

  • In total, 104 students had missing data on the smoking status variable and were excluded from analyses. Missing data on the different items over the two surveys ranged from 37 to 131.

  • *Analyses adjusted for covariates of sex, age, school education sector, state and smoking status. CS, smoking in past week/established smokers; ES, experimental smokers; NSNS, non-susceptible never-smokers; SNS, susceptible never-smokers.