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on a recent OA (yeah!) paper on #ecigs #JUUL and risk perceptions.
1/5 https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/17/13/4755/htm#B17-ijerph-17-04755
on a recent OA (yeah!) paper on #ecigs #JUUL and risk perceptions.1/5 https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/17/13/4755/htm#B17-ijerph-17-04755
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'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
but huzzah and 
to @AlaynaTackett @eleanor_leavens & @TheodoreWagener.
Detailed findings are worth a look, but figure 2 caught my eye.
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Not all authors on
but huzzah and 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' 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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My take is....
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...that these estimates are awfully "compressed". Depending on your personal take of "extremely harmful", I'd take cigs higher, but that, indirectly, NRT is fully half as harmful as cigs, is, in a word, BONKERS.
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#MisperceptionsSuck
#StayCurious
#RethinkNicotine
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#MisperceptionsSuck
#StayCurious
#RethinkNicotine
