“More than one-third of participants felt that daily smoking of cannabis was safer than tobacco, and their views increasingly favored safety of cannabis vs tobacco over time (1742 participants [36.7%] in 2017 vs 2107 participants [44.3%] in 2021; P < .001)”
Fair point on the Tobacco vs Cigarettes, but generally people interpret the two as synonymous.
They do, which highlights how flawed/pointless this survey and headline are.
Not accounting for the well known association between tobacco and cigarettes when formulating the question is just lazy polling.