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ArticleJAMA network open2020

Association of the US Outbreak of Vaping-Associated Lung Injury With Perceived Harm of e-Cigarettes Compared With Cigarettes.

Harry Tattan-Birch, Jamie Brown, Lion Shahab, Sarah E Jackson

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Article in JAMA network open, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 34 papers, 9 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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34citing papers in PubMed, 9 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

34 citing papers in PubMed, 9 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

  1. Electronic cigarettes for smoking cessation.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2026
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  2. Electronic cigarettes for smoking cessation.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2025
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  3. Electronic cigarettes for smoking cessation.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2025
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  4. Electronic cigarettes for smoking cessation.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2024
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  5. Electronic cigarettes for smoking cessation.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2022
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  6. Developing and Validating Measures of Absolute and Relative E-Cigarette Product Risk Perceptions: Single Items Can Be Surprisingly Comprehensive.Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco · 2022
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  7. Electronic cigarettes for smoking cessation.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2021
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  8. Electronic cigarettes for smoking cessation.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2021
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  9. Electronic cigarettes for smoking cessation.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2020
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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.

Harry Tattan-BirchInstitute of Epidemiology and Health Care, University College London, London, UK.
Jamie BrownInstitute of Epidemiology and Health Care, University College London, London, UK.
Lion ShahabInstitute of Epidemiology and Health Care, University College London, London, UK.
Sarah E JacksonInstitute of Epidemiology and Health Care, University College London, London, UK.

Funding

Cancer Research UK 22962Cancer Research UK C1417/A22962
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

Health Knowledge, Attitudes, PracticeLung InjuryVapingAdultCross-Sectional StudiesDisease OutbreaksFemaleHumansMaleMiddle AgedTobacco Products

Identifiers

PMID32539148
PMCPMC7296387

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