Key result
Cigarette smoking was highly prevalent among men (67%) but rare among women (2%), with smokers spending 60% of their personal income on cigarettes despite high awareness of health hazards.
Population
7,016 individuals (3,423 males and 3,593 females) aged 15 years and older in Minhang District, China
Design
Cross-sectional
Authors
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Financial burden from smoking in Chinese men may motivate targeted policies; cross-sectional data leaves open causality and generalizability.
Cross-Sectional (n=7,016)
The survey highlights a high prevalence of smoking among men in China, associated with a significant financial burden and low desire to quit despite awareness of health risks.
Yanting Gong (1995) conducted a cross-sectional in Cigarette smoking (n=7,016). Cigarette smoking was evaluated on Smoking prevalence, age of initiation of smoking, reasons for smoking, knowledge of tobacco hazards, and costs of smoking. Cigarette smoking was highly prevalent among men (67%) but rare among women (2%), with smokers spending 60% of their personal income on cigarettes despite high awareness of health hazards.
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