"2014 worst published study award" - The nominees are

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Looks like Clive Bates managed to find another canditate for the "2014 worst published study award": www.clivebates.com/?p=2426. Quite an amusing post by Clive pointing out how utterly useless this "research" really is. There you go - problem solved The topic at hand now is "3rd hand exposure" to nicotine, and you can read the whole study here: http://goo.gl/o0BkK9. The authors of the study found out that nicotine is actually left on walls, windows and so on in a chamber, and from that they conclude that people will be exposed to it "3rd hand". But, as Clive points out, there is a quite important difference between deposition of nicotine and exposure to nicotine. This is Clive's response to our dear Dr. Glantz's praising of the study on his blog: The main risk appears to be to people who lick windows – or ‘window-lickers’ as they are known on the Internet.  However, even these people, who have other problems and priorities, would have to lick the deposition from 38 square meters* of glass in this chamber to be exposed to 1mg of nicotine (47/6*1000/205). I don't really think there is anything else to say about this. Go read Clive's post if you haven't yet. Oh, and I've put up a poll on the right hand side so you can vote on which of the 3 studies I've written about lately that you think should get the "2014 worst published study award". Who will win this prestigious award? The nominees are: "3rd hand exposure" by Goniewicz and Lee "Scary warning labelz" by Popova and Ling  "Creative Cancer research" by Borderud, Li, Burkhalter, Sheffer and Ostrof

Looks like Clive Bates managed to find another canditate for the "2014 worst published study award": www.clivebates.com/?p=2426. Quite an amusing post by Clive pointing out how utterly useless this "research" really is.

There you go - problem solved

The topic at hand now is "3rd hand exposure" to nicotine, and you can read the whole study here: http://goo.gl/o0BkK9. The authors of the study found out that nicotine is actually left on walls, windows and so on in a chamber, and from that they conclude that people will be exposed to it "3rd hand". But, as Clive points out, there is a quite important difference between deposition of nicotine and exposure to nicotine. This is Clive's response to our dear Dr. Glantz's praising of the study on his blog:

The main risk appears to be to people who lick windows – or ‘window-lickers’ as they are known on the Internet.  However, even these people, who have other problems and priorities, would have to lick the deposition from 38 square meters* of glass in this chamber to be exposed to 1mg of nicotine (47/6*1000/205).

I don't really think there is anything else to say about this. Go read Clive's post if you haven't yet. Oh, and I've put up a poll on the right hand side so you can vote on which of the 3 studies I've written about lately that you think should get the "2014 worst published study award". Who will win this prestigious award? The nominees are:

• "3rd hand exposure" by Goniewicz and Lee
• "Scary warning labelz" by Popova and Ling 
• "Creative Cancer research" by Borderud, Li, Burkhalter, Sheffer and Ostrof