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Comment
. 2021 Apr;116(4):757-758.
doi: 10.1111/add.15315. Epub 2020 Nov 26.

Commentary on Chan et al. : Urgent need for more sophisticated research designs to examine the association between adolescent e-cigarette use and future smoking initiation

Gemma M J Taylor  1 , Jamie Hartman-Boyce  2
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Commentary on Chan et al. : Urgent need for more sophisticated research designs to examine the association between adolescent e-cigarette use and future smoking initiation

Gemma M J Taylor et al. Addiction. 2021 Apr.
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Keywords: Adolescent; causal analysis; common liability hypothesis; e-cigarettes; gateway hypothesis; instrumental variable analysis; multivariable regression; propensity scores; time-series analysis; tobacco.

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