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. 2012 Mar 13;14(10):1221–1228. doi: 10.1093/ntr/nts077

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