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ReviewEpidemiology and health2017

Smokeless tobacco (

Kamal Niaz, Faheem Maqbool, Fazlullah Khan, Haji Bahadar, Fatima Ismail Hassan, Mohammad Abdollahi

Open access · diamondAbstract readReview
In one paragraph

Review in Epidemiology and health, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 117 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
117citing papers in PubMed, 3 pooled it
15.9field-weighted citation impact, top 1% of its field
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

117 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 260 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Behavioral Interventions for Tobacco Cessation in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco · 2025
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  6. Mixed Methods Process Evaluation of Behavioral Support and Nicotine Replacement Therapy for Smokeless Tobacco Cessation in Bangladesh, India, and Pakistan.Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco · 2026
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  12. Mortality Fractions Attributable to Smoking and Smokeless and Mixed Tobacco Use Among Men and Women Across India, 1998-2021.Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco · 2025
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57 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

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

6 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Kamal NiazInternational Campus, Tehran University of Medical Sciences (IC-TUMS), Tehran, Iran.ORCID 0000-0001-8670-4356
Faheem MaqboolInternational Campus, Tehran University of Medical Sciences (IC-TUMS), Tehran, Iran.ORCID 0000-0001-7728-664X
Fazlullah KhanInternational Campus, Tehran University of Medical Sciences (IC-TUMS), Tehran, Iran.ORCID 0000-0003-2473-6090
Haji BahadarInstitute of Paramedical Sciences, Khyber Medical University, Peshawar, Pakistan.ORCID 0000-0003-2458-5843
Fatima Ismail HassanInternational Campus, Tehran University of Medical Sciences (IC-TUMS), Tehran, Iran.ORCID 0000-0003-1250-0048
Mohammad AbdollahiInternational Campus, Tehran University of Medical Sciences (IC-TUMS), Tehran, Iran.ORCID 0000-00030123-1209
Tehran University of Medical Sciences · IRKhyber Medical University · PK

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Smokeless tobacco consumption, which is widespread throughout the world, leads to oral submucous fibrosis (OSMF), which is a long-lasting and devastating condition of the oral cavity with the potential for malignancy. In this review, we mainly focus on the consumption of smokeless tobacco, such as

Indexed as

AsiaDNA DamageFemaleHumansMaleMouth NeoplasmsNitrosaminesOral Submucous FibrosisPrevalenceSex CharacteristicsTanzaniaTobacco, SmokelessNitrosaminesArecaFibrosisOral cancerPrevalenceSmokeless tobacco

Identifiers

PMID28292008
PMCPMC5543298
OpenAlexW2615488483

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Registered trials

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Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.