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ReviewToxicology reports2023

Preliminary toxicological assessment of heated tobacco products: A review of the literature and proposed strategy.

Ruth Dempsey, Gregory Rodrigo, Florence Vonmoos, Irfan Gunduz, Maxim Belushkin, Marco Esposito

Erratum issuedOpen access · goldAbstract readReview
In one paragraph

Review in Toxicology reports, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 11 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
11citing papers in PubMed
5.3field-weighted citation impact, top 4% 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

11 citing papers in PubMed, 23 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Risk Assessment Models for Heated Tobacco Products.Risk analysis : an official publication of the Society for Risk Analysis · 2026
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Ruth DempseyRD Science Speaks Consultancy Sàrl, Le Mont sur Lausanne, Switzerland.
Gregory RodrigoPMI R&D, Philip Morris Products S.A., Rue des Usines 56, 2000 Neuchâtel, Switzerland.
Florence VonmoosPMI R&D, Philip Morris Products S.A., Rue des Usines 56, 2000 Neuchâtel, Switzerland.
Irfan GunduzPMI R&D, Philip Morris Products S.A., Rue des Usines 56, 2000 Neuchâtel, Switzerland.
Maxim BelushkinPMI R&D, Philip Morris Products S.A., Rue des Usines 56, 2000 Neuchâtel, Switzerland.
Marco EspositoPMI R&D, Philip Morris Products S.A., Rue des Usines 56, 2000 Neuchâtel, Switzerland.
Philip Morris International (Switzerland) · CH

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Heated tobacco products (HTP) have become increasingly common in many countries worldwide. The principle of heating tobacco, without combustion, to produce a nicotine-containing aerosol with remarkably reduced levels of other known toxins, compared to combusted tobacco cigarettes, is now well established. As these products are intended as alternatives to traditional combusted products, during the early stages of their development, it is important for manufacturers to ensure that the design of the product does not lead to any unintentionally increased or new risk for the consumer, compared to the traditional products that consumers seek to replace. There is limited guidance from tobacco product regulations concerning the requirements for performing such preliminary toxicological assessments. Here, we review the published literature on studies performed on HTPs in the pursuit of such data, outline a proposed approach that is consistent with regulatory requirements, and provide a logical approach to the preliminary toxicological assessment of HTPs.

Indexed as

Heated tobacco productsProduct assessmentProduct stewardshipToxicological assessment

Identifiers

PMID36748021
PMCPMC9898577
OpenAlexW4317521096

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Registered trials

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