Nicotine - Misperceptions, Misinformation, or Disinformation: Difference between revisions
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===2022: [https://stories.uq.edu.au/medicine/2020/clarifying-australia-s-youth-vaping-figures/index.html Clarifying Australia’s youth vaping figures]=== | ===2022: [https://stories.uq.edu.au/medicine/2020/clarifying-australia-s-youth-vaping-figures/index.html Clarifying Australia’s youth vaping figures]=== | ||
*The incorrect reporting of Australia’s purported ‘youth vaping epidemic’ has been used to argue for even tougher restrictions on access to nicotine vaping products. We should be restricting access to the nicotine product that causes the greatest harm in Australia, tobacco cigarettes. Cigarettes are still used by 2.9 million Australians who easily access them at retail outlets, despite being the leading preventable cause of disease burden. | *The incorrect reporting of Australia’s purported ‘youth vaping epidemic’ has been used to argue for even tougher restrictions on access to nicotine vaping products. We should be restricting access to the nicotine product that causes the greatest harm in Australia, tobacco cigarettes. Cigarettes are still used by 2.9 million Australians who easily access them at retail outlets, despite being the leading preventable cause of disease burden. | ||
===2019: [https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31486151/ Nicotine vaping product use, harm perception and policy support among pharmacy customers in Brisbane, Australia]=== | |||
*There was widespread misperception about relative risk of nicotine-containing products, with 37% of respondents perceiving nicotine-containing NVPs to be as harmful as combustible cigarettes. | |||
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