Lung Cancer and Cigarette Smoking Web Page (April 1996-July 1997)

Data generated from feedback to the web page and presented by poster at the World Conference on Lung Cancer, Dublin Ireland, March 1997.

“Hits”= 25,253, from 37 states of the USA and 16 other nations, including (in decreasing order of frequency) Canada, Australia, Brazil, France, Singapore, United Kingdom, Barbados, Belgium, China, Ecuador, Germany, India, Japan, Philippines, Spain and Sweden.

Feedback (E-mail and Forms) N= 560 (2.2% of “Hits”)

Identifiable Gender N=305 Male= 50% Female=50%

Identifiable Age N=102 Median=33 years

<21 yrs. = 27

22-30 yrs.= 18

31-40 yrs.= 27

41-50 yrs.= 19

>50yrs. = 11

Identifiable Smoking Status: N=72

Smokers =34.7%

Ex-smokers =47.2%

Non-smokers =18%

Topic of Feedback Correspondence: Discussion and Requests for information

School or research project = 55 (9.8%)

Graphics, pictures and video = 23 (4.1%)

Smoking cessation = 58 (10.4%)

Treatment- relative/friend with lung cancer = 118 (21.1%)

Treatment- patient with lung cancer = 10 (1.8%)

Tobacco control = 17 (3.0%)

Environmental tobacco smoke = 5 (0.9%)

Cancer risk = 15 (2.7%)

General information = 33 (5.9%)

Requests for links from other web pages = 8 (1.4%)

Miscellaneous = 12 (2.0%)

Web forms = 108 (19.3%)

Follow-up E-mail = 98 (16.1%)