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

Table 3

Perception about nicotine.

	Strongly agree	Somewhat agree	Somewhat disagree	Strongly disagree	Do not know
Nicotine causes cancer	70.0	17.9	1.4	9.8	0.9
Nicotine causes cardiovascular disease	79.8	12.7	1.4	4.6	1.4
Nicotine causes birth defects	61.7	21.6	4.0	8.1	4.6
Nicotine causes COPD	81.6	9.2	1.7	6.6	0.9