Smoking knowledge and decision in an era of widespread awareness: Persistent disparities and policy implications.

ABSTRACT: Years of anti-smoking campaigns to promote public awareness about smoking's negative health effects have resulted in increased awareness across a large segment of the population. Amid gains in smoking-related knowledge, important but unexplored questions remain about population-level trends and the continuing importance of knowledge-based anti-smoking policies. Using the Philippine case, this paper is the first to examine persistent disparities in knowledge on smoking's health risks and the continued importance of knowledge-based interventions in discouraging smoking. We also investigated whether knowledge moderates the effect of price on smoking decisions. For this cross-sectional study, we conducted ANOVA, Tukey HSD tests, and a two-part multivariate regression model on the 2009, 2015, a

SUBMITTER: Garcia Estrada MA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12321053 | biostudies-literature | 2025

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature