“How much politicians know about e-cigarettes and other novel tobacco products has a major effect on their perceptions of safety and risk, new research suggests. A survey of members of the European Parliament (MEPs) found that those who were knowledgeable about novel tobacco products were far more likely than those with no knowledge to consider them less risky than smoking. The survey conducted by ECigIntelligence and TobaccoIntelligence, independent data providers to the sector, found that high proportion of MEPs have no knowledge about new nicotine products.”