Cris Delnevo

A U.S. Menthol Ban Could Save 255,000 Black Lives - STOP 45,000 Black Americans die every year from using tobacco, especially menthol. Meet the woman fighting to protect her community.

In case you missed it, this is a great piece featuring my dear colleague Carol McGruder, co-founder of the African American Tobacco Control Leadership Council: exposetobacco.org/news/menthol...

Meet Kimberly Jordan-Casarona! Dr. Jordan-Casarona will be a presenter at the Rutgers Tobacco Treatment Specialist (TTS) virtual training, and registration is still open!

To learn more and sign up, go to tobaccoprogram.org

So very excited for Rafael to join the Rutgers family!!

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 ➡️

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More than 1,000 HHS staff call on RFK Jr. to resign thehill.com/policy/healt...

For the serious policy wonks.

The White House released an amended version of OMB Circular A-11.

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I have NOT been through this (it'a ~1000 pages) but I understand it asserts more authority to not spend appropriated funds.

This is relevant to the FY 2027 budget.

Today, little kids at Annunciation Catholic School were forced into a club that no child should ever join. It’s a fucked up club, and it’s growing because our so-called leaders refuse to act.

Vought Bills CFPB $5 Million for His Security Detail While Gutting Agency's Consumer Work | Common Dreams "At heart, these guys are all kleptocrats," wrote one critic.

$5M. 2/2

www.commondreams.org/news/russell...

Your tax dollars pay around $7 million per year for Russell Vought’s personal security detail, while he and his friends incite stochastic violence against scientists and the CDC. 1/2

Updated funding curves (new format)

(Data through July 18)

Fraction of grant budget, all awards

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Full Committee Markup of Defense and Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education Appropriations Acts | United States Senate Committee on Appropriations United States Senate Committee on Appropriations

🧪 Senate appropriators say: NIH's budget gets a... boost!

Rather than 40% cut, NIH gets a $400M *increase* in the Senate committee bill for FY26 (about +1%).

"Congress has your back," said @murray.senate.gov.

ADVOCACY MATTERS! There's still a long road (esp in the House), so keep up pressure.

is this written policy somewhere for all of NIH? i see it in the NCI final plan.. but cant find anything else

Nerds.

Changing patterns of nicotine product use and nicotine dependence among United States high‐school students: The National Youth Tobacco Survey, 2014–2023 Background and aim Concerns have been raised that e-cigarettes have created a new generation of people addicted to nicotine. This study aimed to measure changes in the proportion of US high-school s...

Concerns have been raised that vaping has created a 'new generation of nicotine addicts'.

We examined changes in the proportion of US high-school students reporting symptoms of nicotine dependence, in the context of changing patterns of nicotine product use.

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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 ...

@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...

Donate to @trevorproject.bsky.social here. give.thetrevorproject.org/give/696138/...

Not every decision requires an RCT (and no RCT is infinitely generalizable).

Scientists would do well to incorporate power and wealth and their agendas into their thinking about scientific progress. Science is political by its nature, but for pro-democracy parties, it should not be partisan.

There’s one vice RFK Jr. isn’t talking about The health secretary, who wants Americans to make healthier choices, rarely mentions smoking.

RFK Jr. wants to Make America Healthy Again. But he's ignoring the country's leading cause of preventable deaths: smoking.

In 2021 Democratic turnout in NJ. 383,000. At 10pm today with 77% of the vote in —> 656,460 😱🤯🙊

From the makers of Zyn. How is this Rocket Pop Cigar ok? Who knew summer could taste like a carcinogen?

Cutting the NIH—The $8 Trillion Health Care Catastrophe This JAMA Forum discusses the recent budget cuts to National Institutes of Health (NIH), the effects of these cuts on scientific research and health of individuals in the US, and the prospects for cha...

JAMA Forum on the proposed NIH budget…

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The Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids applauds today’s announcement by the FDA that they seized nearly two million units of unauthorized e-cigarette products, with an estimated retail value of nearly $34 million, during a joint enforcement operation with U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP).

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🚨REMINDER CDC AND ALLIES!🚨
We have power together.
To see our strength and build community, we ask that you wear something 💚green💚 to work TOMORROW to show solidarity and readiness to defend public health.
Please spread the word!
#courageiscontagious #wearthecolor #spreadthecolor

Northwestern has not received any NIH funds since March. No written communication about why or what can be done. Thank you Ben Singer for raising awareness at #ATS2025

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Opinion | Why the FDA is right about Zyn Zyn has proven to be an especially controversial nicotine product. But there is some good news.

Why the FDA is right about Zyn. "It may seem like authorizing another nicotine product- especially one with its own youthful cultural cachet- is a risky decision. But when evaluating all the factors (e g 2.4% youth use after 10y), it actually makes sense." www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...