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ReviewAmerican journal of public health2019

Transnational Tobacco Companies and New Nicotine Delivery Systems.

Annalise Mathers, Ben Hawkins, Kelley Lee

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Review in American journal of public health, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 19 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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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.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

19 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Young Adult Responses to Peer Crowd-Based Targeting in E-cigarette Advertisements: An Experimental Study.Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco · 2023
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  3. Vaping-related lung disease: a narrative review.Journal of thoracic disease · 2026
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  10. Do Tobacco Companies Have an Incentive to Promote "Harm Reduction" Products?: The Role of Competition.Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco · 2023
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  13. Subculture wars: The struggle for the vape industry.The British journal of sociology · 2023
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  14. Vaping control in Nova Scotia: using research to catalyze change.Canadian journal of public health = Revue canadienne de sante publique · 2022
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  16. Unboxed: US Young Adult Tobacco Users' Responses to a New Heated Tobacco Product.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2020
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  18. Transformation of the Tobacco Industry.American journal of public health · 2019
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Annalise MathersAnnalise Mathers is with the Ontario Tobacco Research Unit, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario. Ben Hawkins is with the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom. Kelley Lee is with Faculty of Health Sciences, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia.
Ben HawkinsAnnalise Mathers is with the Ontario Tobacco Research Unit, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario. Ben Hawkins is with the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom. Kelley Lee is with Faculty of Health Sciences, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia.
Kelley LeeAnnalise Mathers is with the Ontario Tobacco Research Unit, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario. Ben Hawkins is with the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom. Kelley Lee is with Faculty of Health Sciences, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia.

Funding

Tobacco Companies, Public Policy and Global HealthR01CA091021 · NCI · U OF L LONDON SCH/HYGIENE &TROPICAL MED · PI LEE, KELLEY · 2001 to 2018
$5.1M
NCI NIH HHS R01 CA091021
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

While the public health community has focused on the harm-reduction potential of new nicotine delivery systems (NNDSs) and, conversely, their potential for impeding overall efforts to prevent and reduce tobacco use, limited analysis has been conducted on the role of leading transnational tobacco companies (TTCs) in this rapidly growing market. Following aborted efforts during the 1980s and 1990s to develop reduced-risk products, TTCs have heavily invested in selected NNDS products since 2010 via acquisitions and internal research and development. This article catalogs and analyzes the patterns of investment in NNDSs by leading TTCs over time, and identifies differences in the companies' approaches to NNDS product acquisition and development in specific markets globally. This analysis raises important questions regarding the companies' intent, which appears to be to sustain, rather than replace, cigarette sales, and to increase their influence and credibility with respect to NNDS policy and regulation. We identify the need for greater public health vigilance and research to understand and respond to the increasingly significant role of NNDSs in TTCs' global business strategies, to ensure that NNDSs advance, rather than hinder, tobacco control efforts.

Indexed as

Electronic Nicotine Delivery SystemsPublic HealthTobacco IndustryEuropeHumansInternationalityTobacco Use

Identifiers

PMID30571303
PMCPMC6336036

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