Table 3. Comparative risk perception between non users of tobacco, current cigarette smokers and current snuffers, South African Social Attitudes Survey, 2007.

Perception	Non-tobacco users* n = 1991% (95% CI)	Current exclusivecigarette smokers† n = 678% (95% CI)	Current snuffers§ n = 119% (95% CI)	% of exclusive cigarette smokers interested in switching to snuff if informed it was 99% safer than cigarettes and yielded the same amount of nicotine as cigarettes (95% CI)
Using snuff is safer than smoking	11.9 (9.7–14.2)	5.7 (3.4–8.0)	67.5 (56.4–78.5)	26.2 (9.1–43.3)
Using snuff is as equally harmfulas smoking	48.5 (44.9–52.1)	49.7 (44.1–55.2)	21.8 (11.8–31.7)	27.7 (19.6–35.8)
Using snuff is more harmful than smoking	10.0 (8.0–11.9)	12.9 (9.5–16.2)	8 (0.3–15.8)	34.7 (21.9–47.5)
Did not know	29.6 (26.3–33.0)	31.8 (26.4–37.1)	2.7 (0.0–5.7)	14.5 (7.8–21.2)

Note: All samples (n) were unweighted while all percentages (%) were weighted to account for the complex survey design. CI = Confidence interval.

*Respondents that had never used any of the following tobacco products during their lifetime: manufactured cigarettes, hand-rolled cigarettes, pipes or cigars or smokeless tobacco products (including nasal or oral snuff).

^†Respondents who reported smoking roll-your-own cigarettes or factory-made cigarette daily or some days, but who were not current users of oral or nasal snuff.

^§Respondents who reported using oral or nasal snuff daily or some days.