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ArticleAmerican journal of public health2025

Tobacco Company Efforts to Persuade Consumers to Fight the Proposed Federal Menthol Cigarette and Flavored Cigar Bans in the United States.

Ollie Ganz, Andrea C Villanti, Aila Altunbilek, Amanda Johnson, Jeannie Garmon, Olivia A Wackowski, Kymberle L Sterling

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Article in American journal of public health, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT07543081 (The Unvarnished Truth), which is not on this map. Cited by 3 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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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.

NCT07543081 nanot yet recruitingnot on this mapstarted 2026, after this paper: background citation

The Unvarnished Truth: Pursuing Health Equity by Correcting Disinformation Targeting African Americans About the FDA's Proposed Ban on Menthol Cigarettes and Flavored Cigars

TypeinterventionalSponsorRutgers, The State University of New JerseyRan2026 to 2028Enrolled1,000ConditionsDisinformation, Menthol Cigarettes, Flavored CigarsArmsIndividual delivery of anti-disinformation messaging, Community delivery of anti-disinformation messaging
3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

3 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Identifying key beliefs for anti-disinformation messaging for Black adults about proposed US bans on menthol cigarettes and flavored cigars.Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco · 2026
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  3. News coverage of the proposed menthol cigarette ban in the United States (2022-2024): a content analysis.Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco · 2026
    Article
4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors.

Ollie GanzOllie Ganz, Andrea C. Villanti, Olivia A. Wackowski, and Kymberle L. Sterling are with the Department of Health Behavior, Society, and Policy at the Rutgers School of Public Health in Piscataway, NJ, and the Rutgers Institute for Nicotine and Tobacco Studies at Rutgers Health in New Brunswick, NJ. Aila Altunbilek, Amanda Johnson, and Jeannie Garmon are with the Rutgers Institute for Nicotine and Tobacco Studies at Rutgers Health, New Brunswick.ORCID 0000-0002-7933-8463
Andrea C VillantiOllie Ganz, Andrea C. Villanti, Olivia A. Wackowski, and Kymberle L. Sterling are with the Department of Health Behavior, Society, and Policy at the Rutgers School of Public Health in Piscataway, NJ, and the Rutgers Institute for Nicotine and Tobacco Studies at Rutgers Health in New Brunswick, NJ. Aila Altunbilek, Amanda Johnson, and Jeannie Garmon are with the Rutgers Institute for Nicotine and Tobacco Studies at Rutgers Health, New Brunswick.ORCID 0000-0003-3104-966X
Aila AltunbilekOllie Ganz, Andrea C. Villanti, Olivia A. Wackowski, and Kymberle L. Sterling are with the Department of Health Behavior, Society, and Policy at the Rutgers School of Public Health in Piscataway, NJ, and the Rutgers Institute for Nicotine and Tobacco Studies at Rutgers Health in New Brunswick, NJ. Aila Altunbilek, Amanda Johnson, and Jeannie Garmon are with the Rutgers Institute for Nicotine and Tobacco Studies at Rutgers Health, New Brunswick.
Amanda JohnsonOllie Ganz, Andrea C. Villanti, Olivia A. Wackowski, and Kymberle L. Sterling are with the Department of Health Behavior, Society, and Policy at the Rutgers School of Public Health in Piscataway, NJ, and the Rutgers Institute for Nicotine and Tobacco Studies at Rutgers Health in New Brunswick, NJ. Aila Altunbilek, Amanda Johnson, and Jeannie Garmon are with the Rutgers Institute for Nicotine and Tobacco Studies at Rutgers Health, New Brunswick.ORCID 0009-0006-4498-1420
Jeannie GarmonOllie Ganz, Andrea C. Villanti, Olivia A. Wackowski, and Kymberle L. Sterling are with the Department of Health Behavior, Society, and Policy at the Rutgers School of Public Health in Piscataway, NJ, and the Rutgers Institute for Nicotine and Tobacco Studies at Rutgers Health in New Brunswick, NJ. Aila Altunbilek, Amanda Johnson, and Jeannie Garmon are with the Rutgers Institute for Nicotine and Tobacco Studies at Rutgers Health, New Brunswick.ORCID 0009-0007-8177-7063
Olivia A WackowskiOllie Ganz, Andrea C. Villanti, Olivia A. Wackowski, and Kymberle L. Sterling are with the Department of Health Behavior, Society, and Policy at the Rutgers School of Public Health in Piscataway, NJ, and the Rutgers Institute for Nicotine and Tobacco Studies at Rutgers Health in New Brunswick, NJ. Aila Altunbilek, Amanda Johnson, and Jeannie Garmon are with the Rutgers Institute for Nicotine and Tobacco Studies at Rutgers Health, New Brunswick.
Kymberle L SterlingOllie Ganz, Andrea C. Villanti, Olivia A. Wackowski, and Kymberle L. Sterling are with the Department of Health Behavior, Society, and Policy at the Rutgers School of Public Health in Piscataway, NJ, and the Rutgers Institute for Nicotine and Tobacco Studies at Rutgers Health in New Brunswick, NJ. Aila Altunbilek, Amanda Johnson, and Jeannie Garmon are with the Rutgers Institute for Nicotine and Tobacco Studies at Rutgers Health, New Brunswick.

Funding

The Unvarnished Truth: Pursuing Health Equity by Correcting Disinformation Targeting African Americans about the FDA's Proposed Ban on Menthol Cigarettes and Flavored CigarsR01MD018728 · NIMHD · RUTGERS BIOMEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES · PI Kymberle L Sterling, Andrea Villanti · 2023 to 2026
$2.6M
NIMHD NIH HHS R01 MD018728
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

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