A paper in the recent CRST supplement led by Dr. Mary Hrywna highlights how CRST's retail surveillance system tracks product availability, identifies emerging tobacco and nicotine products, and informs public health action. ➡️ www.sciencedirect.com/journal/prev...

Featured in the Rapid Surveillance of Tobacco Product Marketing, Sales, & Use Behavior supplement, Dr. Lauren Pacek & coauthors demonstrate how rapid surveillance surveys can provide timely insights into youth tobacco use. Read the supplement/paper here: www.sciencedirect.com/journal/prev...

Featured in the new CRST supplement issue: Dr. Jessie Jensen and INTS coauthors analyzed nearly 10,000 tobacco products collected from U.S. schools, providing timely insights into the products, brands, and flavors reaching youth. #TobaccoResearch www.sciencedirect.com/journal/prev...

A new article featuring Drs. Jamie Tam & Sarah Skolnick find that reducing nicotine in cigarettes to minimally addictive levels could prevent millions of premature deaths, reduce smoking disparities among people with major depression, & boost productivity. www.rutgers.edu/news/how-nic...

How a Nicotine Reduction Policy Could Reduce Smoking Disparities and Boost Productivity

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INTS' Dr. Stefanie Gratale joined WHYY's Studio 2 to discuss the evolving tobacco & nicotine landscape, including youth views on smoking, nicotine pouches, e-cigarettes, tobacco marketing, and challenges of balancing harm reduction with youth prevention. www.youtube.com/watch?v=rxE9...

Is nicotine back? | Studio 2 from WHYY | 07/08/26

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Explore the new supplement issue, Rapid Surveillance of Tobacco Product Marketing, Sales, and Use Behavior. Sponsored by CRST, this collection showcases research from INTS investigators on tobacco marketing, sales, and use behaviors. ➡️ ow.ly/uVOx50ZlZOr #TobaccoControl

Several INTS members will present at the Research Society on Marijuana (RSMj)'s 10th Annual Scientific Meeting in New Mexico, July 17–19, alongside leading researchers, sharing evidence-based insights on cannabis use, its health impacts, and treatment strategies. #PublicHealth

Congratulations to INTS Core Faculty Member Dr. Olivia Wackowski on her promotion to Full Professor (Tenure) at @rutgerssph.bsky.social, effective July 1! This is a well-deserved achievement for her contributions to public health research and tobacco regulatory science.

We're hiring! The Rutgers Institute for Nicotine and Tobacco Studies (INTS) is seeking a full-time Research Support Associate to facilitate an NIH-funded pilot randomized clinical trial focused on smoking cessation. Apply here: jobs.rutgers.edu/postings/276... #Rutgers #PublicHealth

INTS member Michelle Bover Manderski was featured in a recent JAMA article highlighting public health concerns about the marketing of nicotine pouches ⬇️ jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

How Nicotine Pouches Hook Consumers

This Medical News article discusses a World Health Organization report on marketing tactics used to increase global nicotine pouch uptake.

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This Sunday, May 31, is World No Tobacco Day 🌎 Through public health research, informing policy and regulation, and training future tobacco control researchers and providers, INTS is dedicated to building healthier communities. #WorldNoTobaccoDay

INTS faculty member, Dr. Lauren Pacek, will be discussing dual and polytobacco product use in tobacco research regulation at the UVM Medical Center on May 20 as a part of their monthly lecture series. Register to attend via Zoom: uvmcom.zoom.us/webinar/regi... @rwjms.bsky.social

Thank you to everyone who stopped by the INTS table on Rutgers Day 🎉 We are so glad everyone enjoyed our trivia game and spinning the prize wheel to win some INTS merchandise!

Rutgers Day is this Saturday, April 25th 🌎 Stop by Busch Campus, near the Library of Science and Medicine, and visit our table! Get to know more about our work and impact, answer some trivia questions, and spin the wheel to win some INTS merch 👀

We don't want to let Women's History Month end without recognizing and appreciating the women who founded, led, and powered INTS. 80% of faculty and staff at INTS are women 💪 We recognize and deeply appreciate these female leaders whose dedication powers our mission every day.

Another memorable SRNT conference in the books! This year, INTS members presented 70 unique posters covering a wide array of topics, three INTS posters were spotlighted at the conference, and CRST had a table and served as an Exhibitor. Read more ➡️ ints.rutgers.edu/news/2026-sr...

The annual SRNT conference is this week! INTS faculty and staff are presenting over 70 unique presentations throughout the conference. Take a look at our INTS schedule of presentations by clicking the link below. We hope to see you there! #SRNT2026 ints.rutgers.edu/news/ints-sr...

Distinguished Professor and INTS Director, @crisdelnevo.bsky.social, was recently featured in a Men's Health article that examines how subpar FDA regulations have helped nicotine companies rebrand from a public health threat to a helpful performance tool. www.menshealth.com/health/a6973...

Nicotine Use Has Exploded in the U.S. The Longer-Term Health Consequences May Only Be Starting to Unfold.

How the tobacco industry rebranded a brutally addictive drug from deadly to desirable—and what it means for our health.

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INTS Deputy Director Andrea Villanti and her colleagues' study on how survey item wording affects estimates of the misperception that nicotine itself causes cancer has recently been published in Nicotine and Tobacco Research. academic.oup.com/ntr/advance-...

Impact of Survey Item Wording and Response Options on Prevalence of Beliefs About Nicotine Causing Cancer: A Randomized Survey Experiment

AbstractIntroduction. Misperceptions of nicotine’s role in health harms among US adults have increased. This study examined how survey item wording affects

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Several INTS members showcased their research at the 2025 Cancer Prevention and Control (CPC) Annual Retreat at the @rutgerscancer.bsky.social. They shared innovative findings and connected with fellow researchers passionate about advancing cancer prevention and control.

Register for the VIRTUAL Rutgers Tobacco Treatment Specialist Training! January 26-27. Designed for social workers, nurses, psychologists, physicians, pharmacists, certified alcohol and drug counselors, health educators, and more. ➡️ tobaccoprogram.org

Congratulations to our Deputy Director, Dr. Andrea Villanti, for being listed in @clarivate.com's 2025 Highly Cited Researchers list for the sixth year in a row! #RutgersSPH These highly cited papers rank in the top 1% by citations for field and publication year in the Web of Science.

INTS core faculty member and assistant professor, Lauren Pacek, will discuss tobacco use and cessation and harm reduction strategies among people with HIV in the USA in the webinar hosted by the AETC Program on November 5, 11 am ET. Register here ➡️ www.e2neca.org/org/AETC/Por...

INTS Associate Professor, Jamie Tam, comments on a recent story about how the tobacco industry is fighting proposed nicotine cuts in its products. Read more ➡️ news.bloomberglaw.com/health-law-a...

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 ...

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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/...

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...

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A new study led by Cristine Delnevo, Director of Rutgers Institute for Nicotine and Tobacco Studies (INTS), suggests that nicotine pouches may offer a path to reduced tobacco harm ➡️ jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Tomorrow is the beginning of the Conference on Tobacco or Health 2025. Take a look at the INTS members who will be presenting, and be sure to visit the Center for Rapid Surveillance of Tobacco (CRST) booth!

Andrea Villanti is a guest editor of this newly published issue of JNCI Monographs funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, covering the continued impact of the commercial use of tobacco and health disparities ➡️ academic.oup.com/jncimono/iss...

Volume 2025 Issue 70 | JNCI Monographs | Oxford Academic

Publishes monographs dealing with cancer and closely related research fields, or related groups of papers on specific subjects of importance to cancer research.

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INTS faculty members Michael Steinberg and @maryhrywna.bsky.social were recently featured in an article published in ‪@self.com, where they discussed current knowledge on oral nicotine pouches, like Zyn. ➡️ www.self.com/story/is-zyn...

What to Know Before You Hop on the Zyn Bandwagon

Oral nicotine pouches might be less harmful than smoking, but that doesn’t make them safe.

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@crisdelnevo.bsky.social & Andrea Villanti are coauthors of a new study published in Tobacco Control examining trends in U.S. cigarette consumption—specifically comparing menthol & non-menthol cigarettes—since the enactment of the Tobacco Control Act in 2009. tobaccocontrol.bmj.com/content/earl...

Trends in menthol and non-menthol cigarette consumption in the US: 2009–2024

13 years after the Tobacco Control Act tasked Food and Drug Adminstration (FDA) with studying the removal of menthol in cigarettes, FDA proposed a product standard in 2022 that would prohibit menthol ...

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