Awareness, ever use of HTPs and intention to use HTPs in respondents with different smoking status
| All n (%) | Never smokers n (%) | Ex-smokers n (%) | Current smokers n (%) | P value | |
| In all respondents | |||||
| Awareness | <0.001 | ||||
| Not aware | 4366 (88.7) | 1539 (90.6) | 1516 (87.9) | 1311 (72.8) | |
| Heard of HTPs | 218 (3.9) | 69 (3.9) | 74 (4.0) | 75 (4.2) | |
| Saw photos of HTPs | 104 (2.3) | 37 (2.3) | 29 (1.7) | 38 (2.5) | |
| Saw HTPs | 397 (5.1) | 50 (3.2) | 83 (6.4) | 263 (20.4) | |
| Ever use | 115 (1.0) | 1 (0.05) | 6 (0.6) | 108 (8.9) | <0.001 |
| In respondents who were aware of HTPs but had never used them | |||||
| Intention to use | <0.001 | ||||
| Definitely not | 521 (92.7) | 152 (97.3) | 170 (96.5) | 199 (71.2) | |
| Probably not/Probably will/Definitely will | 72 (7.3) | 3 (2.7) | 6 (3.5) | 63 (28.8) | |
The proportions were weighted by age, sex and conventional cigarette smoking status distribution of 2015 Hong Kong; the observations (n) were unweighted.
P values were from by χ2 test.
HTP, heated tobacco product.