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

Table 6

Health risk scores for smoking products and components.

Product ()	Median and range
Tobacco cigarettes ()	9 (1-10)
Electronic cigarettes ()	7 (2-10)
Snus ()	7 (1-10)
NRT ()	5 (1-10)
Non-NRT oral medications ()	4 (1-10)
Component()
Nicotine ()	8 (1-10)
Inhaled smoke ()	9 (1-10)
Carbon monoxide ()	10 (1-10)
Tobacco ()	9 (1-10)
Tar ()	9 (1-10)

NRT, tar, tobacco residue, health experts’ knowledge of snus was quite low.