FYI
The recent report on vaping from the Royal College of
Physicians (RCP) was called:
2. The Royal College of Physicians:
b - “smokers are getting increasingly addicted to nicotine and
use e-cigarettes as a means of topping up their nicotine levels
throughout the day.”
c - “people will always crave nicotine so it is fighting a losing
battle by trying to stop them - therefore both smoking traditional
cigarettes and e-cigarettes should be encouraged.”
d - “many smokers want reduced-harm products, and it is also
clear that many smokers have succeeded in quitting simply by
substituting electronic for tobacco cigarettes.”
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5. The RCP report, Harm reduction in nicotine addiction,
suggested that making effective, affordable, socially
acceptable, low-hazard nicotine products available to smokers
as a market alternative to tobacco could generate significant
health gains, by allowing smokers to stop smoking tobacco,
without having to stop using the nicotine to which they are
addicted. When was this report published?
a - (i) and (ii) only
b - (i) (ii) and (iii) only
c - (i) and (iii) only
d - (i) (ii) (iii) and (iv)
a - 2007
b - 2010
c - 2013
d - 2016
3. For more than 50 years the Royal College of Physicians has
been campaigning for:
6. Fill in the missing words. The RCP report says that harm
reduction in tobacco smoking (such as promoting the use
of e-cigarettes) has “huge potential to prevent [blank] and
disability from tobacco use, and to hasten our progress to a
[blank] society.
a - Nicotine without smoke: Tobacco harm reduction
b - No smoke without fire: Tobacco causes serious harm
c - Tobacco free nicotine: The future is vaping
d - Liquid nicotine systems: The smoke-free alternative
a - the right for people to smoke to be acknowledged while
pointing out the risks of choosing to do so.
b - smoking to be banned and for those caught smoking to
receive mandatory prison sentences.
c - smoking to be banned during the week but allowed at
weekends as it is a mainly social activity.
d - more and better policies and services to prevent people from
taking up smoking, and help existing smokers to quit.
4. According to the RCP “The rapid growth in use of
e-cigarettes by smokers since 2007 demonstrates that:
a - “e-cigarettes are just as addictive as cigarettes and cause more
long-term harm than smoking.”
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a - death/cash-free
b - death/tobacco-free
c - disease/vaping-only
d - disease/healthier
7. The RCP says that regulation of products designed to reduce
the harm of tobacco smoking (such as e-cigarettes) should be:
a - punitive
b - proportionate
c - perfunctory
d - proactive