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*Note: Dates denote when comments were published, not the paper's publication date. | *Note: Dates denote when comments were published, not the paper's publication date. | ||
===2024: [https://pubpeer.com/publications/A21E464F1BA2A64B02D7ABF3A88965 RE: Declines in cigarette smoking among US adolescents and young adults: indications of independence from e-cigarette vaping surge]=== | |||
*"However, the authors’ conclusions are based on questionable methodological decisions and flawed analyses. Most notably: | |||
**A. The joinpoint analysis of declining cigarette smoking is incorrectly conducted, in a way that obscures more rapid declines in current cigarette smoking after 2002; | |||
**B. Rather than conducting a standard analysis (i.e., a weighted and adjusted analysis of e-cigarette use and smoking trends), authors instead base their conclusions on tallying states that meet certain ad hoc and stringent criteria for (unadjusted) e-cigarette use and smoking trends; and | |||
**C. Analyses focus on an inappropriately narrow time window that does not fully capture the relevant dynamics. Together these flaws substantially underestimate the degree to which e-cigarettes may have displaced or offset cigarette smoking among youth and young adults. | |||
**Moreover, the conclusion that e-cigarette uptake is independent of the declines in cigarette smoking runs counter to a large and varied body of evidence that e-cigarettes substitute for or displace cigarettes. The authors only discuss two such papers, attempting to undermine their conclusions using some of the same flaws that underlie their own analyses, and neglect to mention the larger body of evidence. Together, this yields an article that could cause readers to hold a distorted view of the available evidence on these important issues." (Selya, Gitchell, Foxon, Sembower, Niaura) | |||
*Referring to: Pierce JP, Luo M, McMenamin SB, et alDeclines in cigarette smoking among US adolescents and young adults: indications of independence from e-cigarette vaping surgeTobacco Control Published Online First: 08 November 2023. doi: 10.1136/tc-2022-057907 | |||
===2022: [https://pubpeer.com/publications/D93498039BF8D05DFAE58BFC29DD1B The association between e-cigarette use and asthma among never combustible cigarette smokers: behavioral risk factor surveillance system (BRFSS) 2016 & 2017]=== | ===2022: [https://pubpeer.com/publications/D93498039BF8D05DFAE58BFC29DD1B The association between e-cigarette use and asthma among never combustible cigarette smokers: behavioral risk factor surveillance system (BRFSS) 2016 & 2017]=== | ||
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