Alex Liber

Tuesday marks 75 years since the historic September 30, 1950 Doll & Hill BMJ paper confirming smoking as a cause of lung cancer. For 75 years tobacco companies have been selling and promoting products they know are lethal when used as intended.

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No clue re herds, but as someone lucky enough to have visited a koala sanctuary and petted one I do know that their fur is as soft as you wished it was. Good for Oz!

How would that switch work re: the 2025 off-season? Would there be a mini season in spring 2026?

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

#SRNT2025 discounted registration extended !
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Justices hear FDA case on flavored vapes - SCOTUSblog The Supreme Court on Monday morning heard oral arguments in a challenge to the Food and Drug Administration’s rejection of two companies’ applications to sell fruit-, candy-, and dessert-flavored liqu...

ScotusBlog argument summary is below (and can see some of my thoughts in my feed). Perhaps will get sent back to the FDA to review the marketing plan, but seems unlikely to be a broader win for the plaintiffs.
www.scotusblog.com/2024/12/just...

I look forward to hearing those thoughts!

Is there any liveblog that you'd recommend to help inform those who did not go to law school as to what is happening?

Goodness this was fun to watch at Benz.

Santa Cruz County votes to ban sale of filtered tobacco products The Santa Cruz County Board of Supervisors voted unanimously on Tuesday to ban the sale of filtered cigarettes in unincorporated areas of the county.

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

Santa Cruz County votes to ban sale of filtered tobacco products. “Cigarette butts are the most littered item on the planet, ... , and they are poisonous to the environment.”

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Just in case anyone was wondering, yes, you can use emojis in your Stata graphs.

How? -gen label = "[emoji]"-, then use -mlab(label)- and -msym(none)- options

I find that chocolate donuts go nicely with Michael Bailey's Simpsons data set and @asjadnaqvi.bsky.social's "white_tableau" scheme...

Smoking has become concentrated in low education working class men over time. I guess as the Republican Party took over that segment as their base it was only a matter of time before nicotine itself became politically sorted and coded.

Note that the very low nicotine cigarette policy intended for 2025, looks like it is getting scrapped too. I'm truly bummed. Ugh, the public health bonafides earned but the Ardern government are being related to the dustbin.

#Tobregsky, I have a new paper in NTR! We ask how much of the market for cigarettes and e-cigarettes is captured in my beloved tobacco retail sales data. The answer?
It's pretty good! E-cigs cover half the market and are pretty stable, cigs are very high and stable. academic.oup.com/ntr/advance-...

#TobRegSky My TCORS (CAsToR) is accepting applications thru Nov 20th for a new round of funding for pilot projects in TRS. This program is an excellent opportunity for junior investigators to pursue independent research. Info: tcors.umich.edu/Pilot.php

We think so. 90%+ of menthol Camels are Crush varieties.

#tobregsky Thank you to our funders and institutions for supporting us and this work! If you have any questions, please ask them here or by email (see the paper!). 11/11

A provision that would have enacted similar manufacturer penalties for youth use called the "Lookback" was proposed in the original 1998 Master Settlement Agreement but was removed. We propose bringing it back! 10/x

Assessing penalties in the form of user fees that are high enough to dissuade selling products that are appealing to young people would directly change manufacturer incentives to sell tobacco products to young people. 9/x

Policy changes to FDA CTP User Fee Collections need to be made to 1) adjust for inflation (stuck at 2019 levels), 2) cover all CTP-deemed products (Cough! E-cigarettes), and 3) allow for charging fees that are disproportionate to market share. 8/x

Surveillance efforts (particularly NSDUH) should gather information on tobacco product brand, flavor, and intensity of use across all FDA-deemed tobacco products to enable brand-level underage usage analysis on an ongoing basis.

OK, so we find some brands are popular with young people... what does it mean? We draw one implication for surveillance and one for policy. 7/x

Four cigar brands had significantly higher underage shares than the rest of the market: Backwoods (27.0%), Al Capone (21.0%), Game (19.0%), and White Owl (14.4%). Together, these brands comprised 11.7% of total consumption but 41.5% of underage use. 5/x

Three cigarettes had significantly larger underage shares than the rest of the market: American Spirit menthol (4.6%), Camel menthol (3.7%), and Newport menthol (1.3%). These brands comprised 15.2% of total cigarette consumption but 36.6% of underage use. 4/x

AFTER Federal Tobacco 21, underage people reported consuming 0.6% of all cigarettes and 6.0% of all cigar days (Cigars per day aren't captured in NSDUH; this is a theme). That figure is lower than it used to be, but different products have different underage use levels! 3/x

We use NSDUH to calculate the share of total cigarette and cigar consumption belonging to each brand, the share of underage cons (<21) within each brand, and the share of total underage cons of each brand. 2/x

Brand Differences in Underage Tobacco Use as Evidence for Targeted Sanctions Explore the latest in national and global health policy, including health care pricing, delivery, access, quality, safety, equity, and reform.

🚨New paper from me and Abigail Friedman in JAMA Health Forum! We identify the cigarette and cigar brands that were disproportionately used by underage persons in the US in 2020-2021. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam... A 🧵1/x

Love the academic vibes on this app but my baser interests in cooking and Atlanta United are not (yet) well scratched here.

A new, important working paper is out in SSRN today with
A Friedman, me, A Crippen & M Pesko! It is the longest, widest, and most thorough examination of e-cigarette flavor bans performed to date. We find ecig sales fall and cig sales rise after a ban! Tradeoffs 😲 papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

In the same boat as you for the last two nights. There isn't enough caffeine in this house to make it better.

Funded Research: Tobacco Regulatory Science Program Research projects on tobacco regulatory research funded through TRSP.

Why engage in social media if not to brag on your colleagues? Our Tobacco Center of Regulatory Science at Georgetown and Michigan was renewed for five more years! prevention.nih.gov/tobacco-regu...