| Title |
You might as well smoke; the misleading and harmful public message about smokeless tobacco
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|---|---|
| Published in |
BMC Public Health, April 2005
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| DOI | 10.1186/1471-2458-5-31 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Carl V Phillips, Constance Wang, Brian Guenzel |
| Abstract |
Compared to smoking cigarettes, use of Western smokeless tobacco (ST) products is associated with a very small risk of life-threatening disease (with estimates in the range of a few percent of the risk from smoking, or even less). This means that smokers can realize substantial health benefits by switching to ST, an obvious substitute. But consumers and policy makers have little chance of learning that ST is much less dangerous than smoking because popular information provided by experts and advocates overstates the health risks from ST relative to cigarettes. |
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 5 | 56% |
| Finland | 2 | 22% |
| Unknown | 2 | 22% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 6 | 67% |
| Scientists | 2 | 22% |
| Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors) | 1 | 11% |
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| South Africa | 1 | 2% |
| Brazil | 1 | 2% |
| Unknown | 43 | 96% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 5 | 11% |
| Student > Master | 5 | 11% |
| Professor | 5 | 11% |
| Student > Bachelor | 4 | 9% |
| Researcher | 4 | 9% |
| Other | 12 | 27% |
| Unknown | 10 | 22% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Medicine and Dentistry | 10 | 22% |
| Social Sciences | 9 | 20% |
| Business, Management and Accounting | 6 | 13% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 3 | 7% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 2 | 4% |
| Other | 3 | 7% |
| Unknown | 12 | 27% |
Attention Score in Context
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#5
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