Nicotine - Retracted Studies, Papers, and Articles: Difference between revisions

===2024: Comments RE: [https://pubpeer.com/publications/E128EE4F19CD39411FAFDDB6A88FED Trends in Current Electronic Cigarette Use Among Youths by Age, Sex, and Race and Ethnicity]===

*Despite the authors correcting recognizing that “no trends… should be inferred” between 2020 and 2021, they infer trends between 2021 and 2022, thus making the very same error, as the artifact relates to NYTS 2021 alone, not 2021 and every year thereafter. (Selya)

===2024: Comments RE: [https://pubpeer.com/publications/DEF986999C6287FCD8FD4048A0B8EE Dual and poly-nicotine and tobacco use among adolescents in the United States from 2011 to 2022]===

*"Overall, Zhang et al. improperly conclude that there is a true uptick in dual- and poly-use of nicotine and tobacco in NYTS, but did not attribute any of their findings to a well-documented methodological artifact in NYTS 2021 which renders the findings inconclusive, as (in the words of official NYTS publications) 'differences between estimates might be due to changes in methodology, actual behavior, or both.' ” (Selya)

===2023: Comments RE: [https://pubpeer.com/publications/3BF65B1CBECA15D0EC1068CF8628BC#2 Biochemical Validation of Dependence on JUUL and Other E-Cigarettes Among Youth]===

*"Readers may be interested to know that there is now a comment to the Pierce et al paper from Shiffman and Hannon. The commenters raise questions about the conclusions drawn by the original authors and report alternative analyses of the same dataset." (Gitchell)

*"To this last point, Pierce and Strong’s response now reports a relevant analysis, and it directly contradicts their assertion in the original paper: they demonstrate that dependence among JUUL users in each age cohort was not different from dependence in users of other ENDS brands (though the trend is evidently for lower dependence among JUUL users)." (Shiffman)

===2022: Comments RE: [https://pubpeer.com/publications/1FF8B75DFC81492DEBC8E214F63098 Consumption of JUUL vs. Other E-Cigarette Brands among U.S. E-Cigarette Users: Evidence from Wave 5 of the PATH Study]===

*A re-analysis of the data by Foxon & Shiffman (2) revealed that those analyses did not include replicate weights as specified in guidance from the PATH study team. Foxon & Shiffman (2) show that when the above analyses are performed with the replicate weights included, the associations above are statistically non-significant. (Foxon, Shiffman)

**(2) [https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/20/18/6715 Full Comment]

===2021: Comments RE: [https://pubpeer.com/publications/57A74561DC4B1B43B91E18A95A24A5 Use frequency and symptoms of nicotine dependence among adolescent E-cigarette users: Comparison of JUUL and Non-JUUL users]===

*In summary, by imputing respondents who reported that they “don’t know” which ENDS brand they used to the non-JUUL group even if they may have used JUUL, and by relying on ‘any’ JUUL use definitions which defined as JUUL users those who “usually” used a different ENDS brand, the original analysis systematically biases against the focal brand (JUUL) being studied. (Foxon, Shiffman)

*In summary, the results of Mantey et al. are invalid, because they were based on a definition of JUUL use that is not justified by the brand information in the 2020 National Youth Tobacco Survey.(Rodu)

===2019: Comments RE: [https://pubpeer.com/publications/1F7BA5A2DEC4EF71CA4E7F34C69806 Prevalence of vaping and smoking among adolescents in Canada, England, and the United States: repeat national cross sectional surveys]===

*These (improbable) increases conflict with official data from Statistics Canada that were released shortly after the publication of the paper drawn from the Canadian Community Health Survey, with a representative sample of 65,000. (Bates)

===2018: Comments RE: [https://pubpeer.com/publications/58B4D5D27C6A7C45EE3A094D324368 Prevalence and correlates of JUUL use among a national sample of youth and young adults]===

*The results from this article are uninformative, because the authors did not include simple crosstabs of the raw numbers showing the overlap in current use of ENDS, JUUL and combustible products. They failed to denote current ENDS use in the model for Table two. (Rodu)

===2014: Comments RE: [https://sci-hub.wf/10.1001/jamapediatrics.2014.733 Electronic Cigarettes and Conventional Cigarette Use Among US Adolescents]===

*"In a cross-sectional study, the observed relationship between e-cigarette use and higher and more sustained levels of smoking does not imply causation. Moreover, such studies do not take into account other population characteristics, which may play a crucial role when determining potential causation.2,3 Although the authors acknowledged this limitation in the text, they ended up drawing a conclusion that misleads the public into thinking e-cigarettes are leading to smoking initiation and addiction among adolescents." (Farsalinos, Polosa)

*"Although Dutra and Glantz highlighted an important trend in e-cigarette use among our nation’s youth, failing to consider e-cigarette use in the context of other tobacco products may place undue emphasis on e-cigarettes, overshadowing the importance of the current use of multiple tobacco products as well as experimentation with cigars, smokeless tobacco, and hookah in this population." (Delnevo, Bover Manderski,Giovino)

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