Lack of utility of cigarettes per day cutoffs for clinical and laboratory smoking research.

CONCLUSIONS: Researchers should consider abandoning the use of smoking rate cutoffs to determine study eligibility. If smoking rate cutoffs are used, a rationale should be presented along with justification for the specific cutoff chosen. PMID: 31386967 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31386967?dopt=Abstract

Source: Addictive Behaviors - July 29, 2019 Category: Addiction Authors: Oliver JA, Pacek LR, Locey EN, Fish LM, Hendricks PS, Pollak KI Tags: Addict Behav Source Type: research