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. 2022 Apr;66(4):461-464.
doi: 10.1165/rcmb.2021-0368LE.

The Nose Knows: Sniffing out the Unique Immunological Risk of Alternative Tobacco Products

Emma Karey  1 , Jade Hess  1 , Kayla Farrell  1 , Meghan E Rebuli  2 , Jenni A Shearston  1   3 , Lily Lee  1   4 , Taylor A Reed  1   5 , James Eazor  1 , Alec Edid  1 , Anuradha Shetty  1 , Sarah Khan  1 , Grace Gibbon  6 , Ilona Jaspers  2 , Michael Weitzman  1   6 , Terry Gordon  1   6
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The Nose Knows: Sniffing out the Unique Immunological Risk of Alternative Tobacco Products

Emma Karey et al. Am J Respir Cell Mol Biol. 2022 Apr.
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Figure 1.
Aggregate nasal cytokine concentrations stratified by participant tobacco product status: adult nonsmokers (NS; blue, n = 35), cigarette smokers (CS; black, n = 13), hookah smokers (HS; dark gray, n = 13), and e-cigarette users (EU, light gray, n = 19). Data are expressed as cytokine group means (pg/ml) + SEM. Because nasal data failed normality tests, a Kruskal-Wallis test was used to identify mean differences. When P ⩽ 0.05, a post hoc Dunn’s multiple comparisons test was used to identify which groups were different from one another. Blue lines indicate when means were statistically different from NS reference group (i.e., negative control). Black lines indicate when means were statistically different from CS reference group (i.e., positive control). *P ⩽ 0.05, **P ⩽ 0.01, and ***P ⩽ 0.001.
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