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ReviewTobacco induced diseases2024

Comparison of emissions across tobacco products: A slippery slope in tobacco control.

Ahmad El-Hellani, Ayomipo Adeniji, Hanno C Erythropel, Qixin Wang, Thomas Lamb, Vladimir B Mikheev, Irfan Rahman, Irina Stepanov, Robert M Strongin, Theodore L Wagener and 1 more

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Review in Tobacco induced diseases, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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3citing papers in PubMed
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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

3 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Article
  2. Carbonyl emissions from heated tobacco products.Tobacco prevention & cessation · 2026
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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

11 authors.

Ahmad El-HellaniDivision of Environmental Health Sciences, College of Public Health, The Ohio State University, Columbus, United States.
Ayomipo AdenijiDivision of Environmental Health Sciences, College of Public Health, The Ohio State University, Columbus, United States.
Hanno C ErythropelDepartment of Chemical and Environmental Engineering, School of Engineering & Applied Science, Yale University, New Haven, United States.
Qixin WangDepartment of Environmental Medicine, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, United States.
Thomas LambDepartment of Environmental Medicine, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, United States.
Vladimir B MikheevBattelle Public Health Center for Tobacco Research, Battelle Memorial Institute, Columbus, United States.
Irfan RahmanDepartment of Environmental Medicine, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, United States.
Irina StepanovDivision of Environmental Health Sciences, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Minneapolis, United States.
Robert M StronginDepartment of Chemistry, Portland State University, Portland, United States.
Theodore L WagenerCenter for Tobacco Research, The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center, Columbus, United States.
Marielle C BrinkmanCenter for Tobacco Research, The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center, Columbus, United States.

Funding

VISUAL INDICES OF NEUROTOXICITYP30ES001247 · NIEHS · UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER · PI Martha Susiarjo · 1985 to 2026
$42.8M
Yale Center for the Study of Tobacco Product Use and Addiction (YCSTP) Project 2: Addictive Threshold of Nicotine and the Impact of SweetenersU54DA036151 · NIDA · YALE UNIVERSITY · PI LISA M FUCITO · 2018 to 2026
$41.6M
Leadership and Logistics CoreU54DA046060 · NIDA · WESTAT, INC. · PI Andrea M Stroup · 2018 to 2026
$28.1M
WNY Center for Research on Flavored Tobacco Products (CRoFT)U54CA228110 · NCI · ROSWELL PARK CANCER INSTITUTE CORP · PI O'CONNOR, RICHARD J · 2018 to 2022
$19.8M
The Ohio State University Tobacco Center of Regulatory Science (OSU-TCORS)U54CA287392 · NCI · OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY · PI Peter G. Shields, Theodore Lee Wagener · 2023 to 2026
$19.5M
Smoking Machine Adaptor Design Project for ENDS, Cigars, and Heated Tobacco Products (UC2)UC2FD007229 · FDA · OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY · PI BRINKMAN, MARIELLE CAVANAUGH, WAGENER, THEODORE LEE · 2021 to 2025
$5.1M
Toxicant Production and Mitigation in the Electronic-Cigarette Reaction VesselR01ES025257 · NIEHS · PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY · PI STRONGIN, ROBERT M · 2015 to 2019
$3.6M
Waterpipe tobacco additives and their effect on human puffing behavior, toxicant exposures, pulmonary function, and appealR01CA255563 · NCI · OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY · PI BRINKMAN, MARIELLE CAVANAUGH, WAGENER, THEODORE LEE · 2020 to 2022
$1.3M
Biomarkers of exposure and effect in SREC usersU01DA045523 · NIDA · UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA · PI HATSUKAMI, DOROTHY K, STEPANOV, IRINA · 2017 to 2018
$1.2M
FDA HHS UC2 FD007229NCI NIH HHS R01 CA255563NCI NIH HHS U54 CA228110NCI NIH HHS U54 CA287392NIDA NIH HHS U01 DA045523NIDA NIH HHS U54 DA036151NIDA NIH HHS U54 DA046060NIEHS NIH HHS P30 ES001247NIEHS NIH HHS R01 ES025257
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In this narrative review, we highlight the challenges of comparing emissions from different tobacco products under controlled laboratory settings (using smoking/vaping machines). We focus on tobacco products that generate inhalable smoke or aerosol, such as cigarettes, cigars, hookah, electronic cigarettes, and heated tobacco products. We discuss challenges associated with sample generation including variability of smoking/vaping machines, lack of standardized adaptors that connect smoking/vaping machines to different tobacco products, puffing protocols that are not representative of actual use, and sample generation session length (minutes or number of puffs) that depends on product characteristics. We also discuss the challenges of physically characterizing and trapping emissions from products with different aerosol characteristics. Challenges to analytical method development are also covered, highlighting matrix effects, order of magnitude differences in analyte levels, and the necessity of tailored quality control/quality assurance measures. The review highlights two approaches in selecting emissions to monitor across products, one focusing on toxicants that were detected and quantified with optimized methods for combustible cigarettes, and the other looking for product-specific toxicants using non-targeted analysis. The challenges of data reporting and statistical analysis that allow meaningful comparison across products are also discussed. We end the review by highlighting that even if the technical challenges are overcome, emission comparison may obscure the absolute exposure from novel products if we only focus on relative exposure compared to combustible products.

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analytical methodsemission comparisonsample generationtobacco productstoxicants

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PMID38560551
PMCPMC10980913

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