Tobacco Online Policy Seminar (TOPS)

Check out the TOPS website for the slides 📊 and paper 📰 from last week's presentation by Jamie Hartmann-Boyce on "Oral nicotine pouches for smoking cessation: the latest Cochrane evidence".

Thank you ⭐️@jhb19.bsky.social⭐️ for an excellent TOPS presentation today and to our audience of over 220! 🥳 Here are key takeaways from her presentation on "Oral nicotine pouches for smoking cessation: the latest Cochrane evidence".

🚨TOMORROW🚨
➡️Friday, October 24 2pm ET (New York)
➡️"Oral nicotine pouches and electronic cigarettes for smoking cessation: the latest Cochrane evidence"
➡️ @jhb19.bsky.social from @umassamherst.bsky.social
👉Register: bit.ly/TOPS-Winter2026

Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Tobacco Online Policy Seminar (TOPS). After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar. The Tobacco Online Policy Seminar (TOPS) is a free multidisciplinary, international forum for research with tobacco policy implications using experimental or quasi-experimental study designs. All 2-...

🚨Next TOPS🚨
➡️Friday, October 24 2pm ET (New York)
➡️"Oral nicotine pouches and electronic cigarettes for smoking cessation: the latest Cochrane evidence"
➡️ @jhb19.bsky.social from
@umassamherst.bsky.social

👉Register: bit.ly/TOPS-Winter2026

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

Check out the TOPS website for the slides 📊 and video recording 📹 from last week's presentation by Rachel Fung on "Historical Cigarette Prohibition, Cigarette Use, and Mortality". www.tobaccopolicy.org/seminars.html

🚨LAST CALL: Submit your abstract for the next season of TOPS by **TONIGHT at 11:59pm!**🚨
🧪 Share your experimental or quasi-experimental tobacco policy research
📄 In-progress or newly published work welcome
✍️ Submit or nominate here: www.tobaccopolicy.org/call.html

Thank you @rachelylfung.bsky.social for an excellent TOPS presentation today! 🥳Here are key takeaways from her presentation on "Historical Cigarette Prohibition, Cigarette Use, and Mortality".

Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Tobacco Online Policy Seminar (TOPS). After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar. The Tobacco Online Policy Seminar (TOPS) is a free multidisciplinary, international forum for research with tobacco policy implications using experimental or quasi-experimental study designs. All 2-...

🚨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

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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

The Impact of Smoking Bans in Bars on Alcohol Consumption and Smoking | The Journal of Law and Economics: Vol 68, No 1 Abstract Governments implemented smoking bans in bars to target smoking-related externalities, but these bans may also affect drinking. This paper studies smoking bans’ effects on alcohol consumption ...

Research Update! 📰 Congratulations to @anne-m-burton.bsky.social for recently publishing "The Impact of Smoking Bans in Bars on Alcohol Consumption and Smoking" previously presented at TOPS! 🥳Check out the paper here: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1...

Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Tobacco Online Policy Seminar (TOPS). After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar. The Tobacco Online Policy Seminar (TOPS) is a free multidisciplinary, international forum for research with tobacco policy implications using experimental or quasi-experimental study designs. All 2-...

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

Check out the TOPS website for the slides 📊 and video recording 📹 from last week's presentation by Orestis Efthimiou on "Personalized counselling on the use of e-cigarettes to achieve tobacco abstinence: secondary analysis of data from a RCT".

Thank you 🌟Orestis Efthimiou🌟for an excellent TOPS presentation today! 🎉 Here are key takeaways from his presentation on "Personalized counselling on the use of e-cigarettes to achieve tobacco abstinence: secondary analysis of data from a RCT".

Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Tobacco Online Policy Seminar (TOPS). After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar. The Tobacco Online Policy Seminar (TOPS) is a free multidisciplinary, international forum for research with tobacco policy implications using experimental or quasi-experimental study designs. All 2-...

🚨TOMORROW🚨
➡️Friday, September 5 2pm ET
➡️"Personalized counselling on the use of e-cigarettes to achieve tobacco abstinence: secondary analysis of data from a RCT"
➡️@oremiou.bsky.social from the University of Bern
👉Register: bit.ly/TOPS-Summer2025

🎉The Tobacco Online Policy Seminar turns 5 today! 🎉

Since 2020, TOPS has provided a free, international forum for sharing cutting-edge research on tobacco policy, uniting academics, policymakers & advocates to break silos and improve population health.

Thank you for 5 years of learning together! 🙌

Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Tobacco Online Policy Seminar (TOPS). After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar. The Tobacco Online Policy Seminar (TOPS) is a free multidisciplinary, international forum for research with tobacco policy implications using experimental or quasi-experimental study designs. All 2-...

🚨Next TOPS🚨
➡️Friday, September 5 2pm ET
➡️"Personalized counselling on the use of e-cigarettes to achieve tobacco abstinence: secondary analysis of data from a RCT"
➡️Orestis Efthimiou from the University of Bern
👉Register: bit.ly/TOPS-Summer2025

Thank you @justinwhite.bsky.social for an excellent TOPS presentation Today! 🥳 Here are key takeaways from his presentation on the "Effect of a minimum floor price law for tobacco products on tobacco sales in Oakland, California".

Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Tobacco Online Policy Seminar (TOPS). After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar. The Tobacco Online Policy Seminar (TOPS) is a free multidisciplinary, international forum for research with tobacco policy implications using experimental or quasi-experimental study designs. All 2-...

🚨TOMORROW🚨
➡️Friday, August 22 2pm ET
➡️"Effect of a minimum floor price law for tobacco products on tobacco sales in Oakland, California"
➡️ @justinwhite.bsky.social from @bostonu.bsky.social ky.social
👉Register: bit.ly/TOPS-Summer2025

🚨Next TOPS🚨
➡️Friday, August 22 2pm ET
➡️"Effect of a minimum floor price law for tobacco products on tobacco sales in Oakland, California"
➡️ @justinwhite.bsky.social from @bostonu.bsky.social
👉Register: bit.ly/TOPS-Summer2025

🚨CANCELED🚨
Unfortunately, the TOPS seminar scheduled for August 8th has been canceled. We will continue our Summer 2025 series on August 22nd.

Flavorants and addiction: An empirical analysis of cigarette bans and taxation We evaluate the proposed FDA menthol cigarette ban using aggregate-level retail data and micro-level household data. The model incorporates addiction …

Research Update! 📰 Congratulations to ⭐️#ColinReinhardt⭐️ for recently publishing "Flavorants and addiction: An empirical analysis of cigarette bans and taxation" previously presented at TOPS! 🥳Check out the paper here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Thank you ⭐️@jhb19.bsky.social⭐️ for an excellent TOPS presentation today! Here are key takeaways from her presentation on "Interventions for quitting vaping: Findings from a new Cochrane Living Systematic Review"

Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Tobacco Online Policy Seminar (TOPS). After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar. The Tobacco Online Policy Seminar (TOPS) is a free multidisciplinary, international forum for research with tobacco policy implications using experimental or quasi-experimental study designs. All 2-...

🚨TOMORROW🚨
➡️Friday, July 11 2pm ET
➡️"Interventions for quitting vaping: Findings from a new Cochrane Living Systematic Review"
➡️ @jhb19.bsky.social from
@umassamherst.bsky.social
👉Register: bit.ly/TOPS-Summer2025

Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Tobacco Online Policy Seminar (TOPS). After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar. The Tobacco Online Policy Seminar (TOPS) is a free multidisciplinary, international forum for research with tobacco policy implications using experimental or quasi-experimental study designs. All 2-...

🚨Next TOPS🚨
➡️Friday, July 11 2pm ET
➡️"Interventions for quitting vaping: Findings from a new Cochrane Living Systematic Review"
➡️@jhb19.bsky.social from @umassamherst.bsky.social
👉Register: bit.ly/TOPS-Summer2025

Check out the TOPS website for the paper 📰, slides 📊, and video recording 📹 from last week's presentation by Shweta Mital on "Are E-Cigarettes Substitutes or Complements to Combustible Cigarettes Among Youths? Evidence From Canada". tobaccopolicy.org/seminars.html

Thank you 🌟Shweta Mital🌟 for an excellent TOPS presentation! 🥳 Here are key takeaways from her presentation on "Are E-Cigarettes Substitutes or Complements to Combustible Cigarettes Among Youths? Evidence from Canada"

Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Tobacco Online Policy Seminar (TOPS). After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar. The Tobacco Online Policy Seminar (TOPS) is a free multidisciplinary, international forum for research with tobacco policy implications using experimental or quasi-experimental study designs. All 2-...

🚨TOMORROW🚨
➡️Friday, June 20 2pm ET
➡️"Are E-Cigarettes Substitutes or Complements to Combustible Cigarettes Among Youths? Evidence From Canada"
➡️Shweta Mital from @umanitoba.bsky.social
👉Register: bit.ly/TOPS-Summer2025

Revisiting the effects of cigarette taxation on smoking outcomes - Empirical Economics This study reassesses the efficacy of cigarette taxation in curtailing smoking by leveraging recent advancements in the difference-in-differences (DiD) literature to account for heterogeneous treatmen...

Research Update! 📰 Congratulation to Vinish Shrestha
for recently publishing "Revisiting the effects of cigarette taxation on smoking outcomes" previously presented at TOPS! 🥳 #TBT Check out the paper here: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Tobacco Online Policy Seminar (TOPS). After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar. The Tobacco Online Policy Seminar (TOPS) is a free multidisciplinary, international forum for research with tobacco policy implications using experimental or quasi-experimental study designs. All 2-...

🚨Next TOPS🚨
➡️Friday, June 20 2pm ET
➡️"Are E-Cigarettes Substitutes or Complements to Combustible Cigarettes Among Youths? Evidence From Canada"
➡️Shweta Mital from @umanitoba.bsky.social
👉Register: bit.ly/TOPS-Summer2...