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ArticleJAMA internal medicine2018

Association of Ontario's Ban on Menthol Cigarettes With Smoking Behavior 1 Month After Implementation.

Michael Chaiton, Robert Schwartz, Joanna E Cohen, Eric Soule, Thomas Eissenberg

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Article in JAMA internal medicine, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 57 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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57citing papers in PubMed, 1 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

57 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

  1. The Impact of Menthol Cigarette Bans: 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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  9. From Menthol Cigarettes to Flavored Hookah: The Urgent Need for Stronger Policies.Iranian journal of psychiatry and behavioral sciences · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Michael ChaitonOntario Tobacco Research Unit, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Robert SchwartzOntario Tobacco Research Unit, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Joanna E CohenOntario Tobacco Research Unit, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Eric SouleVirginia Commonwealth University, Richmond.
Thomas EissenbergVirginia Commonwealth University, Richmond.

Funding

Evaluation of Canada's Menthol BanR21DA047358 · NIDA · UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO · PI CHAITON, MICHAEL · 2018 to 2019
$274k
NIDA NIH HHS R21 DA047358
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

MentholSmokingAdolescentAdultAgedFemaleHumansMaleMiddle AgedOntarioPublic OpinionTobacco ProductsMenthol

Identifiers

PMID29507934
PMCPMC5876835

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Registered trials

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