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**lack of a perceived advantage of alternative products over smoking; | **lack of a perceived advantage of alternative products over smoking; | ||
**and a perceived lack of information about relative harms of NCNP compared to smoking. | **and a perceived lack of information about relative harms of NCNP compared to smoking. | ||
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==Health Care== | |||
===2013: [https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/DAT-02-2013-0010/full/html Survey of GPs' understanding of tobacco and nicotine products]=== | |||
*However, when asked to rank components of cigarettes based on their health risks, GPs ranked nicotine as the third riskiest (74 percent England, 87 percent Sweden), after tar and carbon monoxide, but before smoke or tobacco. | |||
*Article: [https://www.nursinginpractice.com/latest-news/gps-falsley-believe-nicotine-most-harmful-cigarette-ingredient/ ‘GPs falsley believe nicotine most harmful cigarette ingredient’] | |||
**...less than half believe that long-term nicotine replacement therapy (NRT) is preferable to smoking (31% UK, 48% Sweden). | |||
**Many (44% UK, 56% Sweden) also wrongly believe that nicotine in tobacco products is associated with cancer, while 15% in the UK and 22% in Sweden believe the same for pharmaceutical nicotine. | |||
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