In the spirit of both #MisperceptionsSuck and #WhatsWrongWithThisPicture, I offer ahttps://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🧵" title="Thread" aria-label="Emoji: Thread">on a recent OA (yeah!) paper on #ecigs #JUUL and risk perceptions.

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Paper in special issue in the journal focusing on Perceptions of Nicotine and Tobacco Products (editors are @owackowski and Michelle Jeong from @RU_CTS and @unevadoreno& #39;s Jennifer Pearson - rock stars), so likely will be more to come from this issue. Landed on this first.

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Online convenience sample of ever JUUL users asked questions about risk perceptions and use.

Not all authors on https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🐦" title="Vogel" aria-label="Emoji: Vogel"> but huzzah and https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🙏" title="Folded hands" aria-label="Emoji: Folded hands"> to @AlaynaTackett @eleanor_leavens & @TheodoreWagener.

Detailed findings are worth a look, but figure 2 caught my eye.

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It reports results for participants& #39; beliefs of how harmful each of these nicotine products are on a scale of 0 (not harmful at all) to 10 (extremely harmful).

My take is....

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...that these estimates are awfully "compressed". Depending on your personal take of "extremely harmful", I& #39;d take cigs higher, but that, indirectly, NRT is fully half as harmful as cigs, is, in a word, BONKERS.

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