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ArticlePreventive medicine2020

E-cigarettes: How can they help smokers quit without addicting a new generation?

David L Ashley, Claire Adams Spears, Scott R Weaver, Jidong Huang, Michael P Eriksen

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Article in Preventive medicine, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 14 papers.

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14citing papers in PubMed
0.7field-weighted citation impact, top 30% 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

14 citing papers in PubMed, 15 citations in OpenAlex.

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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

5 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

David L AshleyDepartment of Population Health Sciences, School of Public Health, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA, United States of America; Tobacco Center of Regulatory Science (TCORS), School of Public Health, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA, United States of America. Electronic address: dashley4@gsu.edu.
Claire Adams SpearsTobacco Center of Regulatory Science (TCORS), School of Public Health, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA, United States of America; Department of Health Policy and Behavioral Sciences, School of Public Health, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA, United States of America.
Scott R WeaverDepartment of Population Health Sciences, School of Public Health, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA, United States of America; Tobacco Center of Regulatory Science (TCORS), School of Public Health, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA, United States of America.
Jidong HuangTobacco Center of Regulatory Science (TCORS), School of Public Health, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA, United States of America; Department of Health Policy and Behavioral Sciences, School of Public Health, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA, United States of America.
Michael P EriksenTobacco Center of Regulatory Science (TCORS), School of Public Health, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA, United States of America; Department of Health Policy and Behavioral Sciences, School of Public Health, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA, United States of America.
Georgia State University · US

Funding

The Science of Decision Making: Connecting People and PolicyP50DA036128 · NIDA · GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY · PI ERIKSEN, MICHAEL PAUL · 2013 to 2018
$19.4M
NIDA NIH HHS P50 DA036128
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The dramatic increase in youth use of electronic nicotine delivery systems (ENDS; e.g., e-cigarettes) in the United States has focused regulatory efforts to address this concern while still encouraging smokers to switch completely to lower risk products or quit all tobacco product use. Increases in the minimum age for purchase of all tobacco products and changes in enforcement policy for ENDS have been recently enacted in an effort to address the youth vaping epidemic. Since all ENDS marketed after February 15, 2007 will be required to meet the "appropriate for the protection of public health" standard for marketing authorization of new products, ENDS manufacturers will have to demonstrate, in part, that their products help lessen the adverse impact on youth use. Some, such as disallowing flavors other than tobacco or menthol or limiting nicotine delivery, may help reduce youth use but could also inhibit smokers from quitting smoking. Other approaches, including reducing the high-tech appearance and discreteness of ENDS, discontinuing use of coupons and two-for-one type price incentives for ENDS, limiting retail sales of these products to adult-only facilities, and incorporating technological innovations such as biometrics or geofencing into ENDS, may help manufacturers demonstrate that marketing of their products would help reduce youth use of ENDS and lessen the epidemic, while still assuring adult smokers have access to products that encourage discontinuing combusted product use.

Indexed as

Electronic Nicotine Delivery SystemsTobacco ProductsVapingAdolescentAdultHumansNicotineSmokersUnited StatesNicotineAcquisitionAddictionAppealE-cigaretteTobacco regulationUse behavior

Identifiers

PMID32473270
PMCPMC7680279
OpenAlexW3031973885

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