Public Grows More Wary of E-Cigarettes

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Public Grows More Wary of E-Cigarettes
Survey data reveals shift in harm perceptions relative to regular cigarettes

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    by Salynn Boyles
    Contributing Writer
    January 05, 2017

A growing percentage of Americans perceive e-cigarettes to be as harmful as regular cigarettes, according to findings from a nationally representative survey of health attitudes.

In 2012, half of respondents (50.7%) participating in the National Cancer Institute's Health Information National Trends Survey (HINTS) considered e-cigarettes to be less harmful than regular cigarettes. In the 2014 survey, just 43.1% considered e-cigarettes less harmful, reported Timothy Huerta, PhD, of Ohio State University in Columbus, Eric W. Ford, MPH, PhD, of Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore, and colleagues.

Roughly three-fourths of those surveyed in 2012 were aware that e-cigarettes existed, compared with close to 95% in 2014, suggesting that while awareness of e-cigarettes has grown in recent years, perceptions about their harms relative to combustible cigarettes have shifted, they wrote in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine.

http://www.medpagetoday.com/pulmonology/smoking/62361

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The question is one of whether this is the result of scientific data which shows e-cigarettes to be more harmful, or whether this is the result of  propaganda ad campaigns claiming e-cigs are harmful.

When those who are hooked on nicotine get a fix without all that secondhand smoke, the antis can't justify tormenting the smokers. Oh, the horror.