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Survey of GPs’ understanding of tobacco and nicotine products

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 ===2018: [https://abstracts.ncri.org.uk/abstract/e-cigarettes-as-a-smoking-cessation-aid-in-cancer-patients-health-professionals-knowledge-attitude-and-current-practice/ E-cigarettes as a Smoking Cessation aid in Cancer Patients: Health Professionals knowledge, attitude and current practice]===
 *Over half of HPs believed their knowledge was not sufficient to recommend e-cigarettes to cancer patients, and 25% did not know whether e-cigarettes were less harmful than smoking tobacco cigarettes.
+===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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