The parent company of Marlboro, Altria, is asking the US Food and Drug Administration to clarify the situation with regards to nicotine and reassure the public that nicotine does not cause cancer.
Earlier this year CNBC said that it had obtained a copy of the letter, in which Altria explains that the move would encourage smokers to switch from regular cigarettes to safer alternatives. Dated Feb. 25th and signed by Paige C. Magness, senior vice president of regulatory affairs, the letter cited government studies on the misconceptions about nicotine.
83% of the doctors inaccurately believed that nicotine directly contributed to heart disease and 81% to COPD.A 2020 national US survey published in the Journal of General Internal Medicine, had sadly indicated that even most local doctors are misinformed about the risks of nicotine.
Conducted by researchers from Rutgers University in New Jersey, the study titled “Nicotine Risk Misperception Among US Physicians” surveyed doctors from six specialties (family medicine, internal medicine, obstetrics and gynecology, cardiology, pulmonary and critical care to hematology and oncology) to explore their knowledge and recommendations about tobacco use, between September 2018 and February 2019.
Diane Caruana – VapingPost – 2021-07-02.
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