We wrote an article explaining why you shouldn't put several variables into a regression model and report which are statistically significant - even as exploratory research. bmjmedicine.bmj.com/content/4/1/.... How did we do?

Cigarette smoking across life from 1946 to 2018: Harmonisation of four British birth cohort studies buff.ly/aNTbcId @lorenkock.bsky.social @tattanbirch.bsky.social

Harry Tattan-Birch introducing TONAL: the Tobacco Or Nicotine Abstinence Log at the SRNT-E conference osf.io/f2t6r/files/...
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Among people who use heroin, tobacco smoking and illegal drugs cause a similar number of premature deaths buff.ly/tIC0Fqp @danlewer.bsky.social @tattanbirch.bsky.social @sharoncox.bsky.social

We did some life table modelling among people who use heroin. Tobacco smoking causes as many premature deaths in this group as illegal drugs. Yet public health policies overlook smoking: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... New research with @sharoncox.bsky.social @tattanbirch.bsky.social

Worth a read. We need to move beyond arbitrary categorisation of continuous variables or assuming that associations are linear - and use more flexible modelling approaches to capture non-linear relationships.

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Concerns have been raised that vaping has created a 'new generation of nicotine addicts'.

We examined changes in the proportion of US high-school students reporting symptoms of nicotine dependence, in the context of changing patterns of nicotine product use.

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We have a new paper out today in Lancet Public Health looking at increases in alcohol-specific deaths in England.

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Will the disposable vape ban help reduce youth vaping?

We discuss this in our editorial out today. Our conclusion:

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Great to work alongside Katie East and Eve Taylor on this one!

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