Table 2: Knowledge of tobacco harm reduction among patent medicine vendors in Ebonyi State, Nigeria, 2023.

Variable

Frequency (N)

Percentage (%)

Which statement best describes THR?

   

  Offering smokers safer nicotine products to enable them quit tobacco smoking

166

51.9

  Motivating smokers to shift from one form of addiction to another

4

1.3

  Reducing harm from tobacco smoking by providing tobacco in electronic formats

38

11.9

  Don't know

112

35.0

Nicotine vapes are effective in helping smokers quit tobacco smoking?

   

  Yes

131

40.9

  No

21

6.6

  Don't know

168

52.5

Customers/patients ever asked you for support to quit smoking?

   

  Yes

207

64.7

  No

113

35.3

Note: N: Number; THR: Tobacco Harm Reduction