Back in 2020, an academic paper suggested that over 80% of US physicians mistakenly thought that nicotine was a carcinogen. The implication of this finding was that perhaps physicians considered vaping (and even nicotine replacement therapy) almost as dangerous as smoking. But physicians are busy people, and I wondered if some, maybe most, might have misunderstood the question in the survey and assumed the researchers were asking about smoking.
To test this hypothesis, I surveyed physicians to learn more about their actual knowledge and opinion. As part of this survey, I reached out to both US and UK physicians. The UK government is more supportive of vaping and other non-traditional nicotine replacement therapies than the US Government, so I wanted to see if government policy and guidance affects physician knowledge and opinion.
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