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==Health Care==
==Health Care==
===2023: [https://www.smokefreeworld.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/USA-Final-SERMO-Doctors-Survey-7-19-2023.pdf Doctors' Survey: USA results]===
*Physicians Have Misperceptions About Nicotine
*Participants were asked: “To what extent do you agree that nicotine by itself directly causes each of the smoking-related conditions below. The results include responses from “moderately agree” to “completely agree.”
**75% - Nicotine causes atherosclerosis
**72% - Nicotine causes birth defects
**69% - Nicotine causes head/neck gastric cancers
**69% - Nicotine causes bladder cancer
**67% - Nicotine causes lung cancer
**66% - Nicotine causes COPD