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ArticleTobacco control2021

'Open-System' electronic cigarettes cannot be regulated effectively.

Thomas Eissenberg, Eric Soule, Alan Shihadeh, CSTP Nicotine Flux Work Group

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Article in Tobacco control, 2021. 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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19citing papers in PubMed
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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

19 citing papers in PubMed.

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  2. Reactions to a Hypothetical Ban of Open-System Electronic Cigarettes Among People Who Currently Use Electronic Cigarettes.Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco · 2025
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  19. 9. Flavours in novel and emerging nicotine and tobacco products.World Health Organization technical report series · 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.

Thomas EissenbergDepartment of Psychology, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, USA teissenb@vcu.edu.ORCID 0000-0002-8277-5437
Eric SouleDepartment of Health Education and Promotion, East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-2740-5633
Alan ShihadehDepartment of Mechanical Engineering, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon.
CSTP Nicotine Flux Work Group

Funding

Project 4: Using a prospective cohort survey to test population-level predictions generated by Projects 1-3U54DA036105 · NIDA · VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY · PI COHEN, JOANNA E · 2018 to 2022
$20.8M
The effect of an electronic cigarette (ECIG) sweetener, sucralose, on ECIG abuse liabilityF31DA047018 · NIDA · VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY · PI MALONEY, SARAH FRANCIS · 2019 to 2021
$120k
NIDA NIH HHS F31 DA047018NIDA NIH HHS U54 DA036105
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

Electronic Nicotine Delivery SystemsSmoking CessationHumansNicotineNicotineelectronic nicotine delivery devicesnicotinepublic policy

Identifiers

PMID32184338
PMCPMC7848783

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