Please join us in welcoming our new faculty member, Rafael Meza, PhD! Rafael Meza, PhD, has joined the Rutgers Institute for Nicotine & Tobacco Studies as a Core Member and the Rutgers Cancer… | ... Please join us in welcoming our new faculty member, Rafael Meza, PhD! Rafael Meza, PhD, has joined the Rutgers Institute for Nicotine & Tobacco Studies as a Core Member and the Rutgers Cancer Institu...

Please join us in welcoming our new faculty member, Rafael Meza, PhD! @rutgerscancer.bsky.social @rwjms.bsky.social Learn more about Dr. Meza here: www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

Tobacco Industry Fights Biden’s Proposed Cigarette Nicotine Cut The future of a Biden-era proposal to slash nicotine levels in cigarettes is uncertain after the Trump administration excluded it from a key regulatory roadmap amid growing industry pressure to scrap ...

INTS Associate Professor, Jamie Tam, comments on a recent story about how the tobacco industry is fighting proposed nicotine cuts in its products.

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Good morning. We’ve learned that RIF notices went out by branch overnight—timed for maximum cruelty. We’ll share info and resources throughout the day.

To those affected: We’re so sorry. This is a deep personal loss and a loss for everyone you keep safe and healthy through your work. 💚

FDA's top tobacco official is removed from post in latest blow to health agency's leadership The Food and Drug Administration’s chief tobacco regulator has been forced out. Brian King's departure Tuesday comes just days after the FDA's top vaccine official stepped down over disagreements with...

The FDA's chief tobacco regulator, Brian King was placed on administrative leave today and the entire office responsible for drafting new tobacco regulations was fired.

The assault on science and health continues.

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Public Inspection: Tobacco Product Standard for Nicotine Yield of Cigarettes and Certain Other Combusted Tobacco Products Tobacco Product Standard for Nicotine Yield of Cigarettes and Certain Other Combusted Tobacco Products

NPRM for proposed #FDA "Tobacco Product Standard for Nicotine Yield of Cigarettes and Certain Other Combusted
Tobacco Products" will publish tomorrow.

This is a huge deal. Researchers, get your public comments ready... www.federalregister.gov/public-inspe...

Our #Tobacco21 project was years in the making and I'm thrilled to finally see it out! Big Thank you to our partners at at PTAF / tobacco21, the whole team at CISNET and our friends at Cornerstone who made this gorgeous website to accompany the paper! Explore T21 effects at tobaccopolicyeffects.org

US Tobacco 21 Policies and Potential Mortality Reductions by State This decision simulation model quantifies potential reductions in smoking-attributable mortality associated with Tobacco 21 policies for each of the 50 states and Washington, DC, in the US.

Tobacco 21 laws in the US will prevent 526K premature deaths, resulting in 13.3 million life-years gains, but with large variations in impact across US States. Great work by CAsToR investigators @jamietam.bsky.social, Friedman, Meza and Jeon and the CISNET Lung Team:

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Please tobacco control community! please repost the JAMA post below! trying to demonstrate to our university leadership the value of adding a @bsky.app "share buttons" on university science press releases!

Surgeon General's Report: Eliminating Tobacco-Related Disease and Death: Addressing Disparities Eliminating Tobacco-Related Disease and Death: Addressing Disparities

#TobRegSky #PedSky #MedSky #EpiSky #addictionsci #policysky #polisky 🧪🛟
The

Surgeon General's Report: Eliminating Tobacco-Related Disease and Death: Addressing Disparities

is out !! So honored to work on this with outstanding CDC leaders, editors and co-authors.
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