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ArticlePublic health challenges2023

Portrayal of electronic cigarettes in the news.

Chimwemwe Ngoma, Samar Mohamed Alhaj, Uchenna Frank Imo, Gabriel Ilerioluwa Oke, Yusuff Adebayo Adebisi

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Article in Public health challenges, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
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.

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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

5 authors.

Chimwemwe NgomaDepartment of Journalism and Media Studies The Malawi University of Business and Applied Sciences Blantyre Malawi.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8648-1244
Samar Mohamed AlhajSchool of Medicine Ahfad University for Women, Omdurman Khartoum Sudan.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3901-9505
Uchenna Frank ImoDepartment of Public Health University of Calabar Calabar Nigeria.
Gabriel Ilerioluwa OkeThe Cognito Project Abuja Nigeria.
Yusuff Adebayo AdebisiGlobal Health Focus Africa Abuja Nigeria.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2381-0984

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Identifiers

PMID40495864
PMCPMC12039611

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