Table 2 |
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Awareness of health effects, Quitline and use of Quitline (unprompted) (smokers of manufactured cigarettes only) |
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2005 (n = 504) |
2006 (n = 525) |
2007 (n = 414) |
2008 (n = 464) |
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Beliefs that smoking causes illness and/or damage to the body |
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Set A related beliefs |
Text/Image |
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Emphysema |
New/Old |
60% |
59% |
57% |
52% |
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Mouth cancer |
New/New |
10% |
24% a |
21% a |
21% a |
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Throat cancer |
New/New |
14% |
17% |
17% |
22% b |
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Gangrene |
New/New |
4% |
27% a |
25% a |
28% a |
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Blocked arteries |
New/Old |
10% |
19% b |
14% |
12% β |
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Set B related beliefs |
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Blindness/Eye damage |
New/Old |
16% |
11% |
25% b |
16% ϕ |
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Stroke |
New/Old |
9% |
8% |
17% b |
11% ϕ |
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Harms unborn babies* |
New/Old |
8% |
5% |
13% c |
13% |
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Addiction# |
Old/New |
7% |
10% |
10% |
10% |
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Heart disease# |
Old/New |
39% |
34% |
36% |
33% |
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Lung cancer# |
Old/New |
55% |
53% |
55% |
55% |
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'Control' beliefs |
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Asthma |
n/a |
20% |
19% |
15% |
6% a |
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Cough |
n/a |
9% |
6% |
8% |
12% |
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Blood pressure |
n/a |
11% |
7% |
7% |
7% |
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Impotence |
n/a |
0% |
0% |
<1% |
<1% |
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What services are available to help smokers quit |
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Quitline |
71% |
75% |
81% a |
78% c |
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Correct recall of Quitline number |
5% |
n/a |
14% b |
n/a |
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Method of quit attempt (of those who tried to quit in the past year) |
(n = 201) |
(n = 209) |
(n = 163) |
(n = 164) |
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Called the Quitline |
7% |
8% b |
11% |
12% |
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* Similar to previous warning "smoking in pregnancy may harm the unborn child" # Old warnings and new warning aSignificant difference from baseline (2005) p < 0.001 bSignificant difference from baseline (2005) p < 0.01 cSignificant difference from baseline (2005) p < 0.05 βSignificant difference from 2006 p < 0.01 ϕSignificant difference from 2007 p < 0.05 |
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Miller et al. BMC Public Health 2011 11:238 doi:10.1186/1471-2458-11-238 |
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