Ill Effects of Smoking: Baseline Knowledge among School Children and Implementation of the “AntE Tobacco” Project

Table 1

Percentage of positive responses to prestudy questionnaire by grade.

	Percentage of respondents answering YES
Question number	All grades; 𝑛=6595	1st grade; 𝑛=2444 (37.1%)	2nd grade; 𝑛=2086 (31.6%)	3rd grade; 𝑛=2065 (31.3%)
(1) Do your parents smoke?	23	28	25	15
(2) Do your siblings smoke?	6	8	5	3
(3) Is smoking hard to quit?	83	68*	89*	95
(4) Can cigarette smoking hurt you?	93	87*	96*	99
(5) Can cigarette smoking cause cancer?	93	88*	94*	97
(6) Can someone else smoking hurt you?	87	78*	89*	96
(7) Can cigarette start fires?	94	89*	95*	97
(8) Can cigarette smoking make you sick?	96	94*	96*	98
(9) Can anyone smoke in your school?	3	5*	3.5*	1
(10) Have you been told not to smoke?	89	79*	25	98

^∗𝑃<.05 compared to 3rd graders (Chi square test).