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Is "Canadian Journal of Respiratory Therapy" a legit academic journal? This paper sounds more like a rant to be posted on reddit than a scholar paper to be published on a legit journal.

The author jumped from "Tobacco smoking has no health benefits" to "tobacco has no benefit". Seriously, this shouldn't even get passed for a high school writing class.

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Seems to be the journal for the Canadian respiratory therapists’ national association.

So I wouldn’t call it illegitimate, but it’s a small field in a small country that’s largely bedside rather than academic, so filling the pages may be a struggle.