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ArticleHealth equity2021

Restricting Sales of Menthol Tobacco Products: Lessons Learned from Policy Passage and Implementation in Minneapolis, St. Paul, and Duluth, Minnesota.

Linda M Bosma, Joanne D'Silva, Joanne Moze, Chris Matter, John H Kingsbury, Betsy Brock

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Article in Health equity, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 14 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
14citing papers in PubMed, 3 pooled it
2.6field-weighted citation impact, top 10% 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, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 26 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. A systematic review investigating policy design and implementation of US state and local policy to restrict the sale of flavored tobacco products.Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco · 2026
    Pooled it
  2. The Public Health Impacts of Flavored Cigar Bans: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco · 2026
    Pooled it
  3. 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
    Pooled it
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  8. Youth and Young Adult Awareness of and Perceptions About Tobacco Marketing as a Social Justice Issue.Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco · 2024
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  13. Youth Tobacco Use Before and After Local Sales Restrictions on Flavored and Menthol Tobacco Products in Minnesota.The Journal of adolescent health : official publication of the Society for Adolescent Medicine · 2022
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  14. A Comprehensive Qualitative Review of Studies Evaluating the Impact of Local US Laws Restricting the Sale of Flavored and Menthol Tobacco Products.Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco · 2022
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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

6 authors at 4 institutions in 1 country.

Linda M BosmaBosma Consulting, LLC, Eagan, Minnesota, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2448-077X
Joanne D'SilvaClearWay Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA.
Joanne MozeCenter for Prevention, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota, Eagan, Minnesota, USA.
Chris MatterCenter for Prevention, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota, Eagan, Minnesota, USA.
John H KingsburyMinnesota Department of Health, Saint Paul, Minnesota, USA.
Betsy BrockAssociation for Nonsmokers-Minnesota, Saint Paul, Minnesota, USA.
Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas City · USClearWay Minnesota · USMinnesota Department of Health · USMinnesota Medical Association · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

health disparitiesimplementationmenthol and flavor tobacco policytobacco control

Identifiers

PMID34235369
PMCPMC8237100
OpenAlexW3177214678

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Registered trials

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