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These misperceptions may contribute to persistent tobacco-related health disparities. To inform regulatory actions in a growing tobacco market, it is essential to understand how harm perceptions differ across tobacco and nicotine products among racial and ethnic groups to ultimately decrease disparities.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Methods<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>An online sample (n=897) of US adults completed a discrete choice experiment, known as a Maximum Difference Likelihood task, which is an orthogonally balanced approach designed to assess harm perceptions of 18 tobacco products that span a risk continuum. Participants selected the most and least harmful products. We estimated probability-scaled relative harm perception scores using a multinomial logit hierarchical Bayesian analysis. 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