The proportion of respondents from each location was comparable to the proportion of the total populations of each of the locations (NIS, Socio-Economic Survey, 2003). Among the 2,025 respondents, 20.0% were from Battambang province, 14.2% Svay Rieng province, 40.6% from Kampong Cham province and 25.2% from
	Phnom Penh. Table 1 presents the number of respondents in each location and the total population of these areas and Figure 1 shows the gender distribution of respondents for each locality and the % of each gender group surveyed according to location.

Respondents by Location and Gender

Smoking and Health

The majority of people reported that they clearly know the bad effects of smoking on health (98.1%). Among 2,025 respondents that were chosen, 599 respondents (29.6%) were current smokers and 566 (94.5%) of these agreed that smoking is bad for their health. Only 33 people (5.5%) said that smoking does not have a bad effect on their health. Some of these people gave the answer that they currently smoke but that their health is fine. With these answers the researchers also asked in-depth questions to the respondents such as whether they often cough. The smokers replied that they cough but that coughing is a normal symptom whenever they get cold or get sick. Interestingly, some people said that they smoke home grown tobacco which does not have a bad impact on their health.

Table 3 shows the responses to the question of whether smoking is a bad for their health broken down by gender, smoking status, age group, education and location. Almost all (96.7%) of the older respondents agree that smoking is bad for health with an even greater percentage of younger adults (99.1%) in agreement.

Demographic Data:

• 73.1% knew that smoking causes lung cancer, and (24.6%) said that smoking cigarettes makes people cough, and aggravates tuberculosis (21.2%), and is related to stroke (12.3%), mouth/throat cancer (11.0%) and heart disease (10.2%). Only 0.4% related impotence to smoking and 0.9% thought smoking could be related to eye disease.

• 95.8% smoking is addictive.

• 98.4% of the respondents agree that smoking is bad for the family economy.

• 98.5% show that most people are exposed to second-hand smoke.

• 97.2% of non-smokers feel uncomfortable being near smoke from other people's cigarettes

• 49.2% of those who smoke don't like being near smoke from other people's cigarettes.

• 84.4% of these people dislike being near the smoke of others

• 98.9% gives a very clear message that both smokers and non-smokers think that smoking should be banned in public places.

• 99% of smoking status most people thinks that smoking should be banned in the workplace.

• 93.1% shows that the majority of respondents reported that they do not want to see smokers smoke at a place with a “No Smoking” sign.

• 68.9% of the respondents want to see the Cambodian health warning look like the health warning used in Thailand.

• 27% want a big message and picture on the front and back sides of the packet.

• 95.9% wanted Cambodia’s messages to be either the same as the Thai or with a big message with a picture on the back and side.

• 97.8% of respondents reported that they would like to see the health warning appear on the front side of packs of cigarettes as compared to the small side of a package.

• 95.5% of these respondents want to see a large health warning that covers 50% or more of the package.

• The majority of both females (98.1%) and males (99.5%) reported that health warnings are useful for educating people to reduce or to quit smoking. Even the smokers (99.2%) strongly support this opinion.

• 90.0% said that they have seen ads on television, 65.3% said that they heard ads on the radio and 17.5% mentioned seeing ads on billboards or posters.

• 97.5% of respondents thought that children see cigarette advertising. Children may very well absorb unconsciously the advertising messages that smoking is good resulting in young addicts.

• 96.4% supported the idea that the government should ban tobacco advertising, promotion and sponsorship by the tobacco industry.

• 99.6% of respondents reported that they want to see Cambodian people smoke less.

• 98.6% agree or strongly agree for the government to pass tobacco control laws. Even smokers (97.5%) support the government to pass tobacco control laws.

• 99.3% of the respondents held the opinion that the government must do more to prevent the youth from not smoking and 99.5% agreed that the government must do more to assist smokers to quit smoking, thus indicating a strong call by the public for the government to become more active in the tobacco control arena.

• 80.9% thought that cigarette prices should be increased.