Association between awareness of tobacco industry tactics and attitude towards FCTC Article 5.3’s guiding principles (ORs from ordinal logistic regression)
| Covariates | FCTC 5.3 guiding principle 1 | FCTC 5.3 guiding principle 2 | FCTC 5.3 guiding principle 3 | FCTC 5.3 guiding principle 4 | ||||
| Unadjusted OR (95%CI) | Adjusted OR (95%CI) | Unadjusted OR (95%CI) | Adjusted OR (95%CI) | Unadjusted OR (95%CI) | Adjusted OR (95%CI) | Unadjusted OR (95%CI) | Adjusted OR (95%CI) | |
| Awareness of tobacco industry tactics | 1.108*** | 1.107*** | 1.067*** | 1.068*** | 1.095*** | 1.105*** | 1.135*** | 1.137*** |
| (1.068 to 1.149) | (1.066 to 1.149) | (1.024 to 1.112) | (1.024 to 1.115) | (1.051 to 1.141) | (1.059 to 1.154) | (1.088 to 1.184) | (1.088 to 1.187) | |
| Age | 1.029*** | 1.031*** | 1.015 | 1.025** | 1.025*** | 1.033*** | 1.018** | 1.028** |
| (1.015 to 1.044) | (1.012 to 1.050) | (0.999 to 1.032) | (1.003 to 1.047) | (1.008 to 1.041) | (1.011 to 1.056) | (1.002 to 1.034) | (1.006 to 1.050) | |
| Sex | ||||||||
| Female | Ref. | Ref. | Ref. | Ref. | Ref. | Ref. | Ref. | Ref. |
| Male | 1.034 | 1.114 | 0.722 | 0.753 | 0.809 | 0.795 | 1.203 | 1.438 |
| (0.728 to 1.467) | (0.756 to 1.640) | (0.479 to 1.086) | (0.481 to 1.179) | (0.543 to 1.206) | (0.511 to 1.237) | (0.811 to 1.785) | (0.919 to 2.251) | |
| Employment | ||||||||
| Funded by Thai Health | Ref. | Ref. | Ref. | Ref. | Ref. | Ref. | Ref. | Ref. |
| Provincial Public health officials | 0.625 | 0.63 | 0.494** | 0.480** | 0.898 | 0.887 | 0.682 | 0.693 |
| (0.376 to 1.037) | (0.373 to 1.065) | (0.281 to 0.867) | (0.270 to 0.852) | (0.515 to 1.568) | (0.499 to 1.576) | (0.390 to 1.192) | (0.385 to 1.245) | |
| Provincial Tobacco Products Control Committee | 1.26 | 0.899 | 0.966 | 0.775 | 1.49 | 1.164 | 0.889 | 0.64 |
| (0.854 to 1.860) | (0.563 to 1.435) | (0.612 to 1.524) | (0.449 to 1.339) | (0.950 to 2.335) | (0.676 to 2.005) | (0.574 to 1.379) | (0.371 to 1.104) | |
| Working experience in tobacco control (year) | 1.037** | 1.002 | 1 | 0.973 | 0.997 | 0.967 | 1.027 | 0.99 |
| (1.006 to 1.069) | (0.970 to 1.035) | (0.968 to 1.032) | (0.939 to 1.007) | (0.966 to 1.029) | (0.934 to 1.002) | (0.991 to 1.063) | (0.954 to 1.026) | |
| Smoking status | ||||||||
| Never smoking | Ref. | Ref. | Ref. | Ref. | Ref. | Ref. | Ref. | Ref. |
| Ever smoking | 0.918 | 0.797 | 0.75 | 0.826 | 0.808 | 0.705 | 0.855 | 0.724 |
| (0.551 to 1.531) | (0.449 to 1.416) | (0.425 to 1.321) | (0.438 to 1.557) | (0.459 to 1.423) | (0.373 to 1.336) | (0.486 to 1.503) | (0.380 to 1.380) | |
| Family or friends smoke | ||||||||
| No | Ref. | Ref. | Ref. | Ref. | Ref. | Ref. | Ref. | Ref. |
| 0.758 | 1.013 | 0.714 | 0.86 | 1.027 | 1.384 | 0.667** | 0.808 | |
| Yes | (0.533 to 1.079) | (0.679 to 1.510) | (0.473 to 1.077) | (0.542 to 1.363) | (0.689 to 1.530) | (0.875 to 2.189) | (0.446 to 0.997) | (0.512 to 1.274) |
| Family or friends use e-cigarettes | ||||||||
| No | Ref. | Ref. | Ref. | Ref. | Ref. | Ref. | Ref. | Ref. |
| Yes | 0.752 | 1.049 | 0.823 | 1.068 | 0.808 | 0.989 | 0.776 | 1.043 |
| (0.498 to 1.138) | (0.660 to 1.666) | (0.515 to 1.313) | (0.635 to 1.795) | (0.510 to 1.280) | (0.587 to 1.666) | (0.491 to 1.226) | (0.624 to 1.744) | |
| Observations | 441 | 441 | 441 | 441 | 441 | 441 | 441 | 441 |
Adjusted for all variables shown in the table.
*** p<0.01, ** p<0.05
FCTC, Framework Convention on Tobacco Control.