Respondents’ beliefs about whether health professionals should recommend THR products to smokers who cannot or will not quit
| Question | Respondent category (number of respondents)* | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| All (1473) | Researcher/scientists (199) | Activists/advocates (338) | p Value† | National/international (117) | State/local (963) | p Value† | |
| *Sample sizes include all individuals who selected an answer that placed them in the relevant respondent category. Due to attrition and exclusion of “unsure” and “rather not answer” responses, the number of cases included in each calculation may be smaller. | |||||||
| †χ2 test calculated as a 3×2 table, including the neutral responses (not shown above). | |||||||
| ‡Percentages do not add to 100% because neutral responses have not been included in the table. | |||||||
| For all items, results given as % answering in favour of recommending use/% opposed‡ | |||||||
| Cigarettes that heat but do not burn tobacco | 10.0/77.3 | 6.7/81.7 | 9.1/75.5 | 0.425 | 14.3/71.4 | 11.0/76.9 | 0.487 |
| Conventional smokeless tobacco products | 6.2/90.2 | 4.7/90.0 | 6.2/90.6 | 0.404 | 8.5/83.0 | 6.4/90.6 | 0.008 |
| Very low nitrosamine smokeless tobacco products | 11.0/81.1 | 15.1/74.7 | 9.6/83.2 | 0.093 | 18.6/71.1 | 10.0/83.2 | 0.012 |
| Nicotine patches | 75.8/17.5 | 78.2/16.0 | 74.5/18.9 | 0.647 | 81.8/12.7 | 74.4/18.4 | 0.238 |
| Tobacco lozenges | 39.3/48.0 | 43.0/40.5 | 33.3/54.8 | 0.014 | 39.8/45.2 | 39.4/49.0 | 0.577 |
| Cigarettes with ⩾1 carcinogen removed | 7.2/87.2 | 4.4/87.4 | 6.2/88.2 | 0.375 | 10.1/87.2 | 7.3/87.0 | 0.275 |
| Nicotine gum | 69.9/21.6 | 76.1/14.9 | 67.9/22.8 | 0.002 | 81.1/12.6 | 66.7/25.0 | 0.007 |
| Nicotine-free cigarettes | 17.2/72.4 | 15.9/76.1 | 16.2/70.2 | 0.159 | 20.6/69.2 | 17.1/72.9 | 0.654 |
| Low tar and nicotine cigarettes | 6.9/89.0 | 2.1/91.7 | 6.7/89.9 | 0.023 | 8.0/87.5 | 7.6/88.3 | 0.970 |