Electronic cigarettes: more light, less heat needed.

Steven L Bernstein

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Article in The Lancet. Respiratory medicine, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it

0cells of the map it votes in

7citing papers in PubMed

–field-weighted citation impact

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

7 citing papers in PubMed.

International expert consensus on electronic nicotine delivery systems and heated tobacco products: a Delphi survey.BMJ open · 2021
Article
Electronic Cigarettes: Past, Present, and Future: What Clinicians Need to Know.Clinics in chest medicine · 2020
Review
Randomised, placebo-controlled, double-blind, double-dummy, multicentre trial comparing electronic cigarettes with nicotine to varenicline and to electronic cigarettes without nicotine: the ECSMOKE trial protocol.BMJ open · 2019
Article
Are electronic nicotine delivery systems helping cigarette smokers quit? Evidence from a prospective cohort study of U.S. adult smokers, 2015-2016.PloS one · 2018
Article
Worldviews and trust of sources for health information on electronic nicotine delivery systems: Effects on risk perceptions and use.SSM - population health · 2017
Article
Electronic nicotine delivery system (ENDS) use during smoking cessation: a qualitative study of 40 Oklahoma quitline callers.BMJ open · 2017
Article
Experimentation with e-cigarettes as a smoking cessation aid: a cross-sectional study in 28 European Union member states.BMJ open · 2016
Article

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

Comment on
E-cigarettes and smoking cessation in real-world and clinical settings: a systematic review and meta-analysis.2016

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author.

Steven L BernsteinDepartment of Emergency Medicine, Yale Cancer Center, Yale School of Medicine, and Department of Health Policy, Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, CT, USA. Electronic address: steven.bernstein@yale.edu.

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 SystemsHot TemperatureHumansSmokingSmoking Cessation

Identifiers

PMID26776876

DOI10.1016/S2213-2600(16)00010-2

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