Public Health Practitioners’ Knowledge towards Nicotine and Other Cigarette Components on Various Human Diseases in Pakistan: A Contribution to Smoking Cessation Policies

Table 16

Contribution of nicotine to diseases: differences between practitioners specialties.

Disease	Specialist	Family medicine	General practitioners
	(%)	(%)	(%)
Nicotine causes cancer
Strongly agree	73 (73.7)	61 (78.2)	109 (64.1)	0.06
Somewhat agree	13 (13.1)	12 (15.4)	37 (21.8)
Somewhat disagree	1 (1)	0 (0)	4 (2.4)
Strongly disagree	11 (11.1)	5 (6.4)	18 (10.6)
Do not know	1 (1.0)	0 (0)	2 (1.2)
Nicotine causes cardiovascular
Strongly agree	82 (82.8)	65 (83.3)	130 (76.5)	0.34
Somewhat agree	10 (10.1)	8 (10.3)	26 (15.3)
Somewhat disagree	0 (0)	2 (2.6)	3 (1.8)
Strongly disagree	6 (6.1)	2 (2.6)	8 (4.7)
Do not know	1 (1.0)	1 (1.3)	3 (1.8)
Nicotine causes birth defects
Strongly agree	60 (60.6)	51 (65.4)	103 (60.6)	0.50
Somewhat agree	23 (23.2)	19 (24.4)	33 (19.4)
Somewhat disagree	0 (0)	3 (3.8)	11 (6.5)
Strongly disagree	7 (7.1)	4 (5.1)	17 (10)
Do not know	9 (9.1)	1 (1.3)	6 (3.5)
Nicotine causes COPD
Strongly agree	82 (82.8)	69 (88.5)	132 (77.6)	0.09
Somewhat agree	9 (9.1)	7 (9)	16 (9.4)
Somewhat disagree	0 (0)	0 (0)	6 (3.5)
Strongly disagree	7 (7.1)	2 (2.6)	14 (8.2)
Do not know	1 (1.0)	0 (0)	2 (1.2)

at 1% of value, at 5% of value, at 10% of value.