Knowledge about the harms of smoking among adults aged ≥15 years in 22 countries, Global Adult Tobacco Survey, 2008–2013
| Region of the Americas | European region | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Argentina | Brazil | Mexico | Panama | Uruguay | Greece | Poland | Romania | Russia | Turkey | Ukraine | |
| Believes smoking causes… | |||||||||||
| Lung cancer (%) | 98.6 | 96.2 | 96.7 | 97.0 | 96.8 | 96.3 | 92.6 | 98.3 | 91.2 | 96.1 | 91.2 |
| Heart attack (%) | 91.0 | 87.0 | 79.7 | 83.5 | 92.0 | 91.2 | 79.9 | 90.0 | 71.0 | 93.6 | 79.3 |
| Stroke (%) | 73.6 | 74.3 | 60.4 | 73.5 | 76.5 | 76.6 | 61.8 | 89.2 | 67.3 | 82.1 | 77.9 |
| Believes SHS cause serious illness (%) | 92.6 | 91.4 | 95.6 | 87.5 | 93.8 | 84.9 | 81.4 | 94.2 | 81.9 | 95.5 | 86.3 |
| Knowledge score (0–4) | 3.6 | 3.4 | 3.3 | 3.4 | 3.6 | 3.5 | 3.2 | 3.7 | 3.1 | 3.7 | 3.3 |
| African region | Eastern Mediterranean region | South-East Asian region | Western Pacific region | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nigeria | Egypt | Qatar | Bangladesh | India | Indonesia | Thailand | China | Malaysia | Philippines | Viet Nam | |
| Believes smoking causes… | |||||||||||
| Lung cancer (%) | 73.0 | 96.2 | 96.4 | 91.5 | 84.9 | 84.7 | 97.5 | 77.5 | 93.7 | 92.8 | 95.6 |
| Heart attack (%) | 76.8 | 95.0 | 93.7 | 85.9 | 63.9 | 81.5 | 75.7 | 38.7 | 88.8 | 78.9 | 62.7 |
| Stroke (%) | 51.4 | 88.6 | 79.5 | 81.6 | 49.4 | 45.5 | 79.6 | 27.2 | 80.7 | 73.3 | 70.3 |
| Believes SHS cause serious illness (%) | 74.5 | 96.3 | 95.1 | 93.4 | 82.9 | 73.7 | 94.9 | 64.3 | 85.8 | 91.6 | 87.0 |
| Knowledge score (0–4) | 2.8 | 3.8 | 3.6 | 3.5 | 2.8 | 2.9 | 3.5 | 2.1 | 3.5 | 3.4 | 3.2 |
SHS, secondhand smoke.