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Attitudes Toward Nonsmoking Policies and Tobacco Tax Increases: A Cross-sectional Study Among Vietnamese Adults.
- Source :
- Asia-Pacific Journal of Public Health; Mar2015, Vol. 27 Issue 2, pNP947-NP957, 1p
- Publication Year :
- 2015
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Abstract
- Following the 2009 update of the 2005 Framework Convention on Tobacco Control, Vietnam issued a new policy to ban smoking at workplaces and public places. This cross-sectional survey explored public attitudes toward this new regulation and provides evidence to inform future laws. Using stratified cluster sampling, 10 383 Vietnamese people older than 15 years were drawn from 11 142 selected households. Policies mandating “no smoking at workplaces” were supported by 88.7% of Vietnamese adults, whereas “no smoking in public places” and “increasing the tobacco tax” received less support. Educational level, knowledge of health effects, access to information on quitting and smoking health risks, smoking status, ethnicity, and region had significant associations with positive attitudes toward all 3 tobacco control policies. Adults belonging to the non-Kinh ethnic group, those who do not live in the Red river delta, people with lower educational levels, and current smokers should be targeted in tobacco control communication programs. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]
- Subjects :
- SMOKING laws
SMOKING prevention
ADVERTISING
CLUSTER analysis (Statistics)
ETHNIC groups
HEALTH attitudes
HEALTH education
HEALTH policy
PROBABILITY theory
PUBLIC opinion
RESEARCH funding
STATISTICAL sampling
SMOKING
SMOKING cessation
SURVEYS
TAXATION
VIETNAMESE people
GOVERNMENT regulation
ACCESS to information
EDUCATIONAL attainment
TOBACCO products
CROSS-sectional method
HEALTH literacy
DATA analysis software
DESCRIPTIVE statistics
ODDS ratio
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 10105395
- Volume :
- 27
- Issue :
- 2
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Asia-Pacific Journal of Public Health
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 101863972
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1177/1010539512460568