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ArticleInternational journal of environmental research and public health2021

Exploring Tobacco and E-Cigarette Use among Queer Adults during the Early Days of the COVID-19 Pandemic.

Pamela Valera, Madelyn Owens, Sarah Malarkey, Nicholas Acuna

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Article in International journal of environmental research and public health, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.

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9citing papers in PubMed
1.1field-weighted citation impact, top 23% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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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.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

9 citing papers in PubMed, 12 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Wanting to Be "Accepted and Heard": Perspectives About Cessation Messages From LGBTQ+ Individuals Who Dual Use Cigarettes and E-Cigarettes.Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco · 2025
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  5. Correlates of smoking during COVID-19 in the LGBTQI + cancer survivor population.Journal of cancer survivorship : research and practice · 2024
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Pamela ValeraRutgers School of Public Health, Piscataway, NJ 08854, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-0095-9209
Madelyn OwensRutgers School of Public Health, Piscataway, NJ 08854, USA.
Sarah MalarkeyRutgers School of Public Health, Piscataway, NJ 08854, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-9251-8901
Nicholas AcunaDepartment of Population and Public Health Sciences, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90032, USA.
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey · USUniversity of Southern California · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The purpose of this narrative study is to describe the vaping and smoking characteristics of Queer people ages 18-34 before March of 2020 and to better understand how the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted those behaviors since March of 2020. In total, 31 participants were screened. Thirteen participants were screened prior to the emergence of COVID-19, and 18 were screened when study protocols transitioned to a remote setting (pre and during). Of the 27 eligible participants, a total of 25 participants completed the study. Most participants (

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COVID-19Electronic Nicotine Delivery SystemsSexual and Gender MinoritiesTobacco ProductsVapingAdolescentAdultFemaleHumansMalePandemicsSARS-CoV-2Young Adultcigarette smokingCOVID-19LGBTminority stressQueervaping

Identifiers

PMID34948530
PMCPMC8700781
OpenAlexW4200389901

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