Nicotine - Misperceptions, Misinformation, or Disinformation: Difference between revisions
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*About 61.2% of smokers believe nicotine causes cancer or don't know. | *About 61.2% of smokers believe nicotine causes cancer or don't know. | ||
*High perceived threat of tobacco may be overgeneralized to nicotine. High prevalence of the misperception among Non-Hispanic Black and low-income smokers is concerning, considering existing health disparities. Messaging should attempt to correct the misperception that nicotine causes cancer. | *High perceived threat of tobacco may be overgeneralized to nicotine. High prevalence of the misperception among Non-Hispanic Black and low-income smokers is concerning, considering existing health disparities. Messaging should attempt to correct the misperception that nicotine causes cancer. | ||
===2021: [https://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/11/9/e045445 Effects of brief exposure to misinformation about e-cigarette harms on twitter: a randomised controlled experiment]=== | |||
*This is the first study to explore the effect of exposure to misinformation about e-cigarette harms on Twitter, showing that after brief exposure to tweets that e-cigarettes are as or more harmful than smoking, current smokers may be deterred from using e-cigarettes (measured with intention to purchase e-cigarettes) as a harm reduction strategy. They are also more likely to wrongly believe that e-cigarettes are more harmful than regular cigarettes. | |||
*The increasing trends of misperceptions about the relative harms of e-cigarettes compared with regular cigarettes are important for public health because perceived harms of e-cigarettes are associated with smokers' willingness to use e-cigarettes6 as a harm reduction strategy. | |||
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