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The 13th World Conference on Tobacco OR Health

Building capacity for a tobacco-free world

July 12-15, 2006, Washington, DC, USA

Friday, July 14, 2006 - 12:00 PM
103-88

Study of the impact on adults of the new sanitary warnings on the Venezuelan cigarette packages in the Metropolitan area of Caracas in the year 2005

Sigfrido Miranda, MPH1, Teresa Kelle, MPH2, and Maytte Rodriguez, MPH1. (1) ophthalmology, Health Care Organization (hospital, clinic), Av. Principal de lidice. PB. Servicio de oftalmología, Caracas, Venezuela, (2) Tobacco Control, Ministery of Health, Urb. El Silencio. Centro Simon Bolivar. Torre Sur. Piso 3. Ofic. 326, Caracas, Venezuela

Objective: To measure the impact on adults of the new sanitary warnings on Venezuelan cigarette packages in the Metropolitan area of Caracas in the year 2005.

Methods: A non experimental prospective and descriptive design in field using a stratified poly-stage probabilistic sampling according to the socioeconomic levels. Seven hundred surveys will be passed face to face at home,with a sampling error of 3.7 and 95% reliability coefficient.

Results: Will be presented at the congress


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