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ArticleNicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco2015

E-cigarettes: a disruptive technology that revolutionizes our field?

Karl Fagerstrom, Jean-Francois Etter, Jennifer B Unger

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Article in Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 29 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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29citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

29 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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  14. Assessing Risk Perceptions of E-Smoking Devices: a Cross-Sectional Consumer Survey.The journal of behavioral health services & research · 2018
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  15. Impact of E-Cigarette Minimum Legal Sale Age Laws on Current Cigarette Smoking.The Journal of adolescent health : official publication of the Society for Adolescent Medicine · 2018
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Karl FagerstromFagerstrom Consulting, Sweden; kark.fagerstrom@swipnet.se.
Jean-Francois EtterInstitute of Global Health, University of Geneva, Switzerland;
Jennifer B UngerDepartment of Preventive Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

Electronic Nicotine Delivery SystemsHumansResearchSmoking

Identifiers

PMID25609846
PMCPMC4892710

What OpenQuestion holds

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Registered trials

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