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ArticlePublic health reports (Washington, D.C. : 1974)

Why an FDA Ban on Menthol Is Likely to Survive a Tobacco Industry Lawsuit.

Kevin R J Schroth, Andrea C Villanti, Marin Kurti, Cristine D Delnevo

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Article in Public health reports (Washington, D.C. : 1974). The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 23 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that 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

23 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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  7. Evidence-Based Post-Ban Research to Inform Effective Menthol Cigarette Bans in the United States and Other Jurisdictions.Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco · 2024
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  13. Menthol Cigarette Use Among Adults Who Smoke Cigarettes, 2008-2020: Rapid Growth and Widening Inequities in the United States.Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco · 2023
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  14. The Role of Communication Research to Support Policy Change: The US Menthol Ban.Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco · 2023
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  17. Trends in Overall and Menthol Market Shares of Leading Cigarette Brands in the USA: 2014-2019.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022
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  19. An Expert Elicitation on the Effects of a Ban on Menthol Cigarettes and Cigars in the United States.Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco · 2021
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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

4 authors.

Kevin R J Schroth1 Center for Tobacco Studies, Rutgers School of Public Health, New Brunswick, NJ, USA.
Andrea C Villanti2 Vermont Center on Behavior and Health, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT, USA.
Marin Kurti1 Center for Tobacco Studies, Rutgers School of Public Health, New Brunswick, NJ, USA.
Cristine D Delnevo1 Center for Tobacco Studies, Rutgers School of Public Health, New Brunswick, NJ, USA.

Funding

TRANSCRIPTIONAL PROFILINGP30CA072720 · NCI · UNIV OF MED/DENT NJ-R W JOHNSON MED SCH · PI Shridar Ganesan · 1997 to 2026
$94.5M
Vermont Center on Behavior and HealthP20GM103644 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT & ST AGRIC COLLEGE · PI HIGGINS, STEPHEN T · 2013 to 2022
$21.3M
University of Vermont Tobacco Center of Regulatory ScienceU54DA036114 · NIDA · UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT & ST AGRIC COLLEGE · PI HIGGINS, STEPHEN T · 2018 to 2022
$19.4M
Tobacco Industry Marketing CoreU54CA229973 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA · PI STRASSER, ANDREW A · 2018 to 2022
$18.8M
Addiction and Behavior Related to Menthol Cigarette SubstitutesR21DA046333 · NIDA · UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA HLTH SCIENCES CTR · PI VILLANTI, ANDREA, WAGENER, THEODORE LEE · 2018 to 2019
$453k
NCI NIH HHS U54 CA229973NIDA NIH HHS R21 DA046333NIDA NIH HHS U54 DA036114NIGMS NIH HHS P20 GM103644
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

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MentholAge FactorsCrimeHumansPublic HealthTaxesTobacco IndustryTobacco ProductsUnited StatesUnited States Food and Drug AdministrationMentholFDAlawsuitmentholtobacco

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PMID30970219
PMCPMC6505334

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