Table 3 Ever witnessed tobacco sales to minor and response against the situation by smoking status
From: The opinions of adults about the ban on cigarette sales to minors
Experience of participants on tobacco sales | Smoking Behavior | Total | P | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Never | Smoked and quit | Current smoker | N | % | |||||
n | % | n | % | n | % | ||||
Ever witnessed any tobacco sales to minors | |||||||||
Yes | 630 | 50.0 | 343 | 59.0 | 758 | 63.8 | 1731 | 57.1 | <0.001 |
No | 631 | 50.0 | 238 | 41.0 | 430 | 36.2 | 1299 | 42.9 | |
Total | 1261 | 581 | 1188 | 3030 | 100.0 | ||||
The seller’s response to the child | |||||||||
Asking his/her identity card | 76 | 12.0 | 51 | 14.8 | 80 | 10.6 | 207 | 12.0 | 0.176 |
Not asking anything and selling tobacco product | 557 | 88.0 | 294 | 85.2 | 677 | 89.4 | 1510 | 88.0 | |
Totala | 633 | 345 | 749 | 1727 | 100 | ||||
The participant’s response against tobacco sales to minors | |||||||||
Doing nothing | 372 | 60.4 | 199 | 59.1 | 504 | 68.3 | 1075 | 63.6 | 0.002 |
Warning the seller’s | 98 | 15.9 | 61 | 18.1 | 84 | 11.4 | 243 | 14.4 | |
Warning the owner | 33 | 5.4 | 14 | 4.2 | 22 | 3.0 | 69 | 4.1 | |
Warning the child | 77 | 12.5 | 46 | 13.6 | 89 | 12.1 | 212 | 12.5 | |
Informing the police | 21 | 3.4 | 3 | 0.9 | 14 | 1.9 | 38 | 2.2 | |
Talking to the other people about this event | 15 | 2.4 | 14 | 4.2 | 25 | 3.4 | 54 | 3.2 | |
Totala | 616 | 337 | 738 | 1691 | 100.0 | ||||