#ASHEcon26 underway in Minneapolis! Group dinner at Hell's Kitchen. @SocialImpactLab @ashecon.bsky.social

Great program for motivated researchers that could benefit from easier, structured opportunities to discuss early-stage research.

Social Impact Lab@socialimpactlab.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Good research doesn't happen in silos. We built the Social Impact Lab around a simple premise: the most important questions in health and policy need economists, lawyers, and public health researchers in the same room. Open dialogue. Rigor. Ingenuity. That's the culture we're building.

TOPS Summer 2026 seminar series is live. Excellent lineup covering flavored product restrictions, T21 impacts, ad bans, nicotine pouches, and policy equity. Fridays 2–3pm ET, starting May 15. Free registration: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi... See many of you there!

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Tobacco Online Policy Seminar (TOPS)@tobaccopolicy.org · 3mo ago

Check out the Summer lineup! TOPS is back with more great #tobacco #policy #research on Friday 5/15 2PM ET, featuring Melanie Dove. TOPS is: ➡️Free 🥳 ➡️Open to all 🙂👋 👉Register: bit.ly/TOPS-Summer2... 👉Join our email list: tobaccopolicy.org/email

Check out the Summer lineup! TOPS is back with more great #tobacco #policy #research on Friday 5/15 2PM ET, featuring Melanie Dove. TOPS is: ➡️Free 🥳 ➡️Open to all 🙂👋 👉Register: bit.ly/TOPS-Summer2... 👉Join our email list: tobaccopolicy.org/email

TOPS Summer 2026 seminar series is live. Excellent lineup covering flavored product restrictions, T21 impacts, ad bans, nicotine pouches, and policy equity. Fridays 2–3pm ET, starting May 15. Free registration: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi... See many of you there!

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Check out the Summer lineup! TOPS is back with more great #tobacco #policy #research on Friday 5/15 2PM ET, featuring Melanie Dove. TOPS is: ➡️Free 🥳 ➡️Open to all 🙂👋 👉Register: https://t.co/8mzJUuIJB4 👉Join our email list: https://t.co/hJzV5ZPn6N https://t.co/IpsJk5Jk9k

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Tobacco Online Policy Seminar (TOPS)@tobaccopolicy.org · 3mo ago

Check out the Summer lineup! TOPS is back with more great #tobacco #policy #research on Friday 5/15 2PM ET, featuring Melanie Dove. TOPS is: ➡️Free 🥳 ➡️Open to all 🙂👋 👉Register: bit.ly/TOPS-Summer2... 👉Join our email list: tobaccopolicy.org/email

Renaming EVALI to reflect that nicotine e-cigs were not the cause remains critically important. I am hopeful that with Jay Bhattacharya at the helm at CDC, our 2021 petition signed by 75 experts will be given a second look and this scientific misclassification corrected.

Cliff Douglas@cdoug-bsky.bsky.social · 4mo ago

More: This gives the Trump CDC an opportunity to right a serious public health wrong that has also impeded a transformation of the marketplace to far safer, alternative nicotine products.

New paper! @mikepesko.bsky.social & @rachelylfung.bsky.social find no meaningful evidence that e-cigs crowd out NRT sales, cessation prescriptions, quitline calls,or smoking quit attempts, suggesting e-cigs reach smokers not interested in quitting otherwise. www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

Happy to announce the program for the 15th Workshop on the Economics of Risky Behavior, to be held in Cagliari, 🇮🇹 on July 8–9, 2026. Grateful to @au-spa.bsky.social for serving as the main organizer & sponsor, and my local partners—Claudio Deiana, Ludovica Giua, & Marco N. Nieddu—for their support.

I recommend completing your taxes up to the point of submitting, then running through ChatGPT. It saved me a few hundred dollars. You can buy a lot of beer with a few hundred dollars.

Societies with generous social security net systems may survive (and thrive) in this new AI world, whereas countries without them may sputter. thehill.com/opinion/fina...

Excited for my co-author and @MizzouEcon graduate student Guthrie Scoblic to present exciting new work on cigar taxation. Hope you will be able to join us; registration is free.

Tobacco Online Policy Seminar (TOPS)@tobaccopolicy.org · 7mo ago

🚨TOMORROW🚨 ➡️Friday, January 23 2pm ET (New York Time) ➡️"Standardizing the Measurement of Cigar Tax Rates in the United States" ➡️Guthrie Scoblic from @mizzouecon.bsky.social 👉Register: bit.ly/TOPS-Winter2026

Congratulations to Dr. Dana Mowls Carroll of @umnsph.bsky.social for winning the 2025 Best Presentation Award (Top of the TOPS!) for her presentation on the public health implications of very low nicotine cigarettes.🥳 Missed her presentation? It's available here: tobaccopolicy.org/seminars.htm...

🚨TOMORROW🚨 ➡️Friday, December 12 2pm ET ➡️"The effects of state-level flavored electronic cigarette restrictions on adult tobacco use using multilevel modeling: Findings from the PATH Study Waves 5 & 7" ➡️John Kingsbury from the National Institute of Drug Abuse 👉Register: bit.ly/TOPS-Winter2026

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I am organizing a session on hearing healthcare for the @ashecon.bsky.social conference in Minneapolis this summer. RE: discussants, would anybody organizing a session on a related topic be interested in having our presenters discuss for each other's session? If so, DM me.

Check out the TOPS website for the video recording 📹from last week's presentation by Bingjin Xue on "The Impact of E-Cigarette Regulations on Birth Outcomes".

Thought-provoking: “I would argue antismoking campaigns were too effective [...] that paved the way for vaping. When vaping became uncool, it paved the path for cigarettes.” www.wsj.com/health/cigar...

Celebrities Are Making Smoking Cigarettes Cool Again

Cigarettes are resurfacing in pop music and movies, raising fears that a yearslong decline in smoking rates could reverse.

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For those in the early stages of their careers—who have not yet served on an NIH study section or held an R01-equivalent PI role—register as an Early Career Reviewer. More information is available on the CSR website: public.csr.nih.gov/ForReviewers...

There are about 20 pop-level natural experiment-style studies of e-cig regulation on smoking, most of which find e-cig regulation increases smoking.

Job opportunity - come and join our incredible research team led by Maria Steenland at UMD as a health data analyst - partial or full telework will be considered. Happy to answer any questions over email, info here: umd.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/UMCP/j... #healthpolicy

Your disrespect isn't cool. There is no place in academia for that. Like we told you at the time, have a qualifying co-author submit the work and it will be fairly considered based on its merits, just like any other submission.

#ASHEcon2026 I am organizing 2 sessions for conference in Minneapolis, MN June 7-10. Looking for abstracts: 1) policy revolving around marijuana and alcohol use or co-use of illicit drugs 2) policy food/nutritional changes from drug decriminalization/legalization, or other impactful policy.

I looked at the position paper you referenced. I don't believe it engages a single quasi-experimental study for the conclusions reached. Systematic reviews of the quasi-experimental evidence show the opposite conclusion: e-cigarettes displace smoking.

There are hundreds of longitudinal studies showing what we’d expect: e-cigarettes harm some people and help others. The key question is the net effect.

💬 Viewpoint: Innovations like e-cigarettes provide rapid nicotine delivery with reduced health risks compared to cigarettes, yet misinformation and regulatory barriers limit their impact on smoking-related disease. ja.ma/3KStQGV

New Viewpoint in @jamahealthforum.com with @jhb19.bsky.social, Benowitz, and @rachelylfung.bsky.social. We argue e-cigs are not a radical break, but a predictable technological step in a long history of people seeking rapid nicotine delivery with less harm. Link: jamanetwork.com/journals/jam... 1/3

E-Cigarettes in Historical Context

This Viewpoint discusses the potential for e-cigarettes to displace smoking, restrictive regulations, and public misperceptions amid enduring nicotine demand and persistent smoking-related disease.

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Anybody else seeing evidence of recent #inflation? My small observation is #Publix yogurt cups went up from $0.50 (already high in my opinion) to $0.60 overnight. 1/6

New TOPS season just announced; kick-off is Oct. 24. Register for free today. #tobacco #nicotine

Tobacco Online Policy Seminar (TOPS)@tobaccopolicy.org · 10mo ago

Check out the ❄️Winter❄️ series lineup! TOPS is back with more great tobacco policy research on Friday 10/24 2PM ET, featuring Jamie Hartmann-Boyce. TOPS is: ➡️ Free 🥳 ➡️ Open to all 👋 👉 Register: bit.ly/TOPS-Winter2026 👉 Join our email list: tobaccopolicy.org/email

My co-author Rachel Fung is presenting an awesome paper tomorrow at 2 PM New York time on early 20th century cigarette prohibition laws in the USA! #History buffs, get your popcorn out. Registration is free; see you there.

Tobacco Online Policy Seminar (TOPS)@tobaccopolicy.org · 11mo ago

🚨TOMORROW🚨 ➡️Friday, September 19 2pm ET ➡️"Historical Cigarette Prohibition, Cigarette Use, and Mortality" ➡️@rachelylfung.bsky.social from @mizzouecon.bsky.social 👉Register: bit.ly/TOPS-Summer2025

Submit your research with #tobacco policy implications to TOPS by Monday for consideration in the next TOPS season. We accept presentations from graduate students on through professors; from working papers through published papers.

Tobacco Online Policy Seminar (TOPS)@tobaccopolicy.org · 11mo ago

Submit or nominate TOPS-notch research for next season's lineup! TOPS offers presenters: ✅quasi- & experimental tobacco policy research OK 👉exposure among a diverse global audience 👉helpful feedback from audience comments 🗓️Deadline: 9/22 ✏️Submit: tobaccopolicy.org/call.html

We recently published a paper in @jamaotolaryngology.com that studies labor supply for #audiology. We find hearing healthcare is difficult to access: 75.0% of USA counties were classified as shortage counties. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam... @ashaadvocacy.bsky.social

Using Supply and Demand to Identify Shortages in the Hearing Health Care Professional Workforce

This quality improvement study measures the US hearing health care professional workforce from 2012 to 2022 and identifies areas experiencing shortages in 2019.

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