Topic 2: Tobacco and Nicotine Products: Updates, Risks and Public Health Impact
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Learning outcomes
- Differentiate common combustible, heated and electronic tobacco/nicotine products and collect a clinically useful exposure history.
- Explain established harms of smoking and distinguish nicotine effects from combustion-related harm.
- Describe what e-cigarette aerosol may contain while communicating uncertainty about long-term outcomes accurately.
- Apply secondhand-smoke, secondhand-aerosol and thirdhand-residue terminology to household consultations.
- Use person-centred, non-stigmatising responses for young people, pregnancy, families and pet-owning households.
- Distinguish evidence, clinical action, current law and policy proposals before giving public-health advice.
Course Content
SCOPE PUBLIC HEALTH
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Lesson 1: Products, Risk and Public Health
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Lesson 2: Smoking Harms and Policy History
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Lesson 3: Product Types and Device Mechanics
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Lesson 4: E-cigarette Aerosol and Common Claims
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Lesson 5: Smoking, nicotine and cancer evidence
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Lesson 6: Mental health, young people and acute incidents
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Lesson 7: Secondhand exposure and thirdhand residue
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Lesson 8: Pregnancy, children and household exposure
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Lesson 9: Pets, economic burden and public health response
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Lesson 10: Unit summary and knowledge check
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Quiz: Products, Risks and Public Health
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