Lauren Pacek

On the ballot today:

-NYC: Mayor
-Minneapolis: Mayor
-VA: Governor, Lt. Governor, AG, and state House
-NJ: Governor
-PA: State Supreme Court
-GA: Public Service Commission
-TX: TX-18 U.S. House
-CA: Prop 50

This is a reminder of how crucial it is to vote up AND down the ballot.

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...

Identifying latent classes of dual cigarette/ENDS users based on motivations for ENDS use: Product substitution versus complementary use AbstractIntroduction. The aim of this study was to empirically identify subgroups of dual cigarette and ENDS product users based on their motivations for E

New @ntrjournal.bsky.social pub from @joemcclernon.bsky.social @otg2014.bsky.social @danarubenstein.bsky.social Patrick Barnwell & me

We identified 2 latent classes of dual cig/ENDS users based on motivations for ENDS use, w/ implications for research, treatment, & regulation
tinyurl.com/bddvdn4a

www.theexamination.org/articles/mas...

22 states sue to block Trump administration cuts to NIH research payments Attorneys general sued the Trump administration to block a NIH decision that would slash grant payments for research overhead

BREAKING—22 states sue to block Trump administration cuts to NIH research payments. Attorneys general seek court order to halt 15% cap on research overhead costs

www.statnews.com/2025/02/10/n...

Assessing the impact of messages about reduced nicotine cigar products among people who use little cigar and cigarillo: Insights from a discrete choice experiment AbstractIntroduction. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) pursuit of a low nicotine standard for cigarettes raises concerns that a focus on cigar

INTS post-doctoral fellow Charity Ntansah and associate professor Kymberle Sterling are authors on a new @ntrjournal.bsky.social paper that uses a discrete choice experiment to explore the impact of reduced nicotine messages among people who use little cigars and cigarillos.

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Wish I knew somebody who was in one of the two halls of Congress right now.

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You can't say "inclusion criteria," ffs 🤦🏻‍♀️

AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHJJJHH

Anyway, how’s everyone doing?

BREAKING NEWS: CDC orders mass retraction and revision of submitted research across all science and medicine journals. Banned terms must be scrubbed. Any unpublished manuscript mentioning certain topics, including gender and "LGBT," must be pulled or revised.

No one should comply with this order. It is censorship. #Trump is a tin-pot dictator and this is garbage. insidemedicine.substack.com/p/breaking-n...

Everyone concerned about data loss right now should learn about the End of Term Web Archive, which I believe has been working on preserving federal websites for the past 8 months. The dataset you fear has been lost may well be here

Just an incredible project. Thank you to everyone involved

Are you a Black scholar interested in a postdoc focused on addiction, substance use, and/or LGBTQ+ wellbeing? Want to live in Toronto? Check out this fellowship and send me a message!

www.torontomu.ca/graduate/pos...

Sometimes I let the void scream back at me just as a little treat

i've run the numbers on your retirement... have you considered dying young?

retirement

Trump hits NIH with ‘devastating’ freezes on meetings, travel, communications, and hiring Researchers facing

www.science.org/content/arti...

NIH In Your State - United For Medical Research Select a state on the map to see the impact of NIH funding across America.

I just reached out to my senators about the NIH situation. If you need to find out how much impact NIH has in your state in terms of dollars in and their economic impact here's a link: www.unitedformedicalresearch.org/nih-in-your-...

Why can't we have nice things?

Reduced nicotine in cigarettes in a marketplace with alternative nicotine systems: randomized clinical trial A reduced-nicotine cigarette standard in the context of access to other non-combusted nicotine products has the potential to benefit public health.

Some variation based on study. In studies where only very low nic cigs were available, you see reductions in CPD, some increased quitting. This one (w/ noncombusted access) shows uptake of noncombusted products + fewer CPD and more smoke-free days (www.thelancet.com/journals/lan....

PDF preview of "What to Expect From a Low-Nicotine Product Standard for Cigarettes."

Viewpoint: Implementation of a low-nicotine product standard has the potential to be the most significant tobacco control policy of the 21st century.

https://ja.ma/3OKcb2X

@sequencemyneuro.bsky.social happy to send links to articles, if interested!

Clinical trials data show that if you reduce nicotine to a low enough level, it's essentially impossible to smoke enough cigs to get the amt of nicotine that smokers are looking for. You see initial compensatory smoking, but it doesn't last long and they give up on it, and then you see reductions.

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

Nicotine Pouches in Need of FDA Regulation This JAMA Viewpoint investigates the rising popularity of nicotine pouches, especially among youths, and how the US Food and Drug Administration must act quickly to regulate these products and curb ma...

Our new Viewpoint in @jama.com with @maryhrywna.bsky.social revisits lessons learned for e-cigarettes and calls on @fda.gov to make PMTA decisions on Nicotine Pouches jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Two stages of writing:

1) This shouldn't take too long
2) Oh no