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Health advocates gathered at the state capitol in Albany to call for closure of what they call an e-cigarette loophole. Battery-powered e-cigarettes first became available in the United States in 2006, when they were heralded as an effective way to wean people off tobacco

Results Model validation and performance The concordance correlation for the selected model for male total cigarette smoking prevalence was 0.78, 0.83, and 0.87 at sample sizes 10, 50, and 100, respectively, compared to 0.90 when all data were included (i.e., in sample)

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