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ReviewCureus2024

The Product Science of Electrically Heated Tobacco Products: An Updated Narrative Review of the Scientific Literature.

Sarah Cordery, Keith Thompson, Matthew Stevenson, Liam Simms, Fiona Chapman, Erika Grandolfo, Layla Malt, Sarah Weaver, Ian M Fearon, Thomas Nahde

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Review in Cureus, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 17 papers.

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17citing 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

17 citing papers in PubMed.

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  4. The respiratory health effects of heated tobacco product aerosols in a primary human airway epithelial cell model.Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco · 2026
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  5. 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

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

10 authors.

Sarah CorderyGroup Science and Regulatory Affairs, Imperial Brands Plc., Bristol, GBR.
Keith ThompsonIndependent Scientific Consultant, Elucid8 Holdings Ltd., Coleraine, GBR.
Matthew StevensonGroup Science and Regulatory Affairs, Imperial Brands Plc., Bristol, GBR.
Liam SimmsGroup Science and Regulatory Affairs, Imperial Brands Plc., Bristol, GBR.
Fiona ChapmanGroup Science and Regulatory Affairs, Imperial Brands Plc., Bristol, GBR.
Erika GrandolfoGroup Science and Regulatory Affairs, Imperial Brands Plc., Bristol, GBR.
Layla MaltGroup Science and Regulatory Affairs, Imperial Brands Plc., Bristol, GBR.
Sarah WeaverGroup Science and Regulatory Affairs, Imperial Brands Plc., Bristol, GBR.
Ian M FearonScientific Research, whatIF? Consulting Ltd., Harwell, GBR.
Thomas NahdeGroup Science and Regulatory Affairs, Imperial Brands Reemtsma, Hamburg, DEU.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Heated tobacco products represent a novel category of tobacco products in which a tobacco consumable is heated to a temperature that releases nicotine from the tobacco leaf but not to a temperature sufficient to cause combustion. Heated tobacco products may therefore have the potential to be a less harmful alternative for adult smokers who would otherwise continue to smoke cigarettes, as their use should result in exposure to substantially fewer and lower levels of toxicants. This update represents a two-year extension to our previous narrative review, which covered peer-reviewed journal articles published up to August 31, 2021. The scientific evidence published between 2021 and 2023 continues to indicate that aerosols produced from heated tobacco products contain fewer and substantially lower levels of harmful and potentially harmful constituents and that these observed reductions consistently translate to reduced biological effects in both

Indexed as

heated tobacco productsheat-not-burn tobacconext generation productspublic healthrisk reductionsmokingtobacco harm reductiontobacco heating products

Identifiers

PMID38939262
PMCPMC11209752

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