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==Healthcare==
==Healthcare==
===2023: [https://www.smokefreeworld.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/UK-SERMO-Doctors-Survey-Final-7-19-2023.pdf Doctors' Survey: UK 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.”
**65% - Nicotine causes atherosclerosis
**61% - Nicotine causes birth defects
**60% - Nicotine causes lung cancer
**59% - Nicotine causes COPD
**59% - Nicotine causes head/neck gastric cancers
**56% - Nicotine causes bladder cancer