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ArticlePreventive medicine2017

U.S. adults' addiction and harm beliefs about nicotine and low nicotine cigarettes.

Erin Keely O'Brien, Anh B Nguyen, Alexander Persoskie, Allison C Hoffman

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Article in Preventive medicine, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 67 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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67citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
5.6field-weighted citation impact, top 4% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

67 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 99 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Regulatory Approaches and Implementation of Minimally Addictive Combusted Products.Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco · 2022
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  2. Nicotine Reduction in Cigarettes: Literature Review and Gap Analysis.Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco · 2019
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  3. Impact of Survey Item Wording and Response Options on Prevalence of Beliefs About Nicotine Causing Cancer: A Randomized Survey Experiment.Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco · 2026
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  8. Educating the Public on the Health Risks of Very Low Nicotine Content Cigarettes: Results From a US-Based Convenience Sample.Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco · 2022
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  10. Persistent Misperceptions about Nicotine among US Physicians: Results from a Randomized Survey Experiment.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Erin Keely O'BrienCenter for Tobacco Products, Food and Drug Administration, United States. Electronic address: Erin.OBrien@fda.hhs.gov.
Anh B NguyenCenter for Tobacco Products, Food and Drug Administration, United States. Electronic address: Anh.Nguyen@fda.hhs.gov.
Alexander PersoskieCenter for Tobacco Products, Food and Drug Administration, United States.
Allison C HoffmanCenter for Tobacco Products, Food and Drug Administration, United States.
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Funding

Intramural FDA HHS FD999999
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

This research described U.S. adults' beliefs about nicotine and low nicotine cigarettes (LNCs) using the nationally-representative Health Information National Trends Survey (HINTS-FDA 2015; N=3738). About three quarters of people either were unsure of the relationship between nicotine and cancer or incorrectly believed that nicotine causes cancer. People who were non-White, less educated, age 65+, and never established smokers were most likely to be unaware that nicotine is not a cause of cancer. More than a quarter of people held the potentially inaccurate beliefs that LNCs would be less harmful and addictive than typical cigarettes. Whites were more likely than Blacks to believe LNCs were less harmful than typical cigarettes, and never smokers were more likely to believe this than established quitters. Whites and people with at least a college degree were more likely to believe that LNCs would be less addictive than typical cigarettes. Overall, we found that many people, particularly the demographic subgroups identified here, held incorrect beliefs about nicotine and potentially inaccurate beliefs about LNCs. Findings should be considered in assessing the public health impact of marketing low nicotine products. Incorrectly believing that nicotine causes cancer could discourage smokers from switching to safer nicotine-containing alternatives, and could lead nonsmokers to experiment with low nicotine tobacco products, believing that cancer risk would be reduced. Findings underscore the need to educate the public on the health effects of nicotine and LNCs, and can help public health practitioners determine which subgroups should be prioritized in targeted educational efforts.

Indexed as

Health Knowledge, Attitudes, PracticeAdultAgedAge FactorsBehavior, AddictiveFemaleHumansMaleMiddle AgedNicotineSmokingSurveys and QuestionnairesTobacco ProductsUnited StatesYoung AdultNicotineBeliefsDemographic differencesLow nicotine cigarettesNicotinePerceptionsSmoking

Identifiers

PMID28034733
PMCPMC5328980
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Registered trials

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