Table 3.
Perceptions of Relative Risk Between Daily Use of Cigarettes and Snus Among Former Smokers, Current Smokers With Plans to Quit Smoking, Unique Snus Users and Never Users of Tobacco
Compared with cigarettes snus is: | Former daily smokers | Current daily smokers | ||||||
No snus use (%) | Former snus use (%) | Current snus use (%) | All (%) | No snus use (%) | Former snus use (%) | Current snus use (%) | All (%) | |
Far/somewhat more risky | 4.5 | 3.3 | 0.3 | 3.0 | 4.3 | 1.8 | 1.4 | 2.9 |
About the same risk | 47.7 | 25.3 | 6.6 | 30.7 | 49.5 | 33.5 | 17.3 | 36.9 |
Somewhat less risky | 34.9 | 39.0 | 30.6 | 34.5 | 34.7 | 46.2 | 36.6 | 37.2 |
Far less risky | 12.9 | 32.4 | 62.4 | 31.8 | 11.5 | 18.6 | 45.3 | 22.9 |
N | 568 | 241 | 346 | 1,155 | 628 | 221 | 364 | 1,213 |