Oversimplification of a complex public health issue that serves exploitative industry interests.

Raglan Maddox, Andrew Waa, Tom Calma, Lisa J Whop

Abstract readLetter

In one paragraph

Article in Addiction (Abingdon, England), 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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0cells of the map it votes in

0citing 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

0 citing papers in PubMed.

No citing paper in PubMed yet.

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

4 authors.

Raglan MaddoxBagumani (Modewa) Clan, Yardhura Walani, National Centre for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Wellbeing Research, National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health, Australian National University (ANU), Canberra, Australia.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2770-0686

Andrew WaaNgāti Hine/Ngāpuhi. Eru Pomare Māori Health Research Unit, University of Otago, Wellington, New Zealand.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8078-0283

Tom CalmaUniversity of Sydney, Sydney, Australia.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3015-4620

Lisa J WhopWagadagam. Yardhura Walani, National Centre for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Wellbeing Research. National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health, Australian National University (ANU), Canberra, Australia.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4816-2933

Funding

National Health and Medical Research Council LJWisfundedbyaInvestigatorGrant(#2009380)

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

base rate fallacye‐cigarettesequityIndigenoustobaccotobacco controltobacco industryvapingyouth nicotine use

Identifiers

PMID40342077

DOI10.1111/add.70090

PMCPMC12215274

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