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Alex Liber @alexcliber.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

Success can create a long tail of fan support for a team performing below expectations. Atlanta United is currently stretching that proposition to its breaking point, but the team will still have the highest attendance in the league this year, 7 years after its last trophy!

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Alex Liber @alexcliber.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

Isn't the fact that Inter Miami is the most valuable MLS franchise (also more than the Marlins) with a roster of stars that are all native Spanish speakers part of the proof of that idea?

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Mike Daube @mikedaube.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

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. www.bmj.com/content/2/46...

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Alex Liber @alexcliber.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

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!

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Alex Liber @alexcliber.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

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

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Dr. Sven-Eric Jordt #TobRegSky @sejordt.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

#TobRegSky #PedSky #MedSky #EpiSky #addictionsci #policysky #polisky 🧪🛟 #SRNT2025 discounted registration extended ! srnt.joynmeeting.com/v2/?card=reg...

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Micah Berman @micahberman.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

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...

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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...

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Alex Liber @alexcliber.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

I look forward to hearing those thoughts!

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Alex Liber @alexcliber.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

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

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Alex Liber @alexcliber.bsky.social · 03/11/2024

Goodness this was fun to watch at Benz.

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Dr. Sven-Eric Jordt #TobRegSky @sejordt.bsky.social · 13/10/2024

#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.” www.ksbw.com/article/sant...

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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.

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John V. Kane @uptonorwell.bsky.social · 04/09/2024

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...

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Alex Liber @alexcliber.bsky.social · 31/01/2024

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.

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Alex Liber @alexcliber.bsky.social · 27/11/2023

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.

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Alex Liber @alexcliber.bsky.social · 16/11/2023

#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-...

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Alex Liber @alexcliber.bsky.social · 10/10/2023

#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

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Alex Liber @alexcliber.bsky.social · 06/10/2023

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

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Alex Liber @alexcliber.bsky.social · 06/10/2023

#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

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Alex Liber @alexcliber.bsky.social · 06/10/2023

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

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Alex Liber @alexcliber.bsky.social · 06/10/2023

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

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Alex Liber @alexcliber.bsky.social · 06/10/2023

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

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Alex Liber @alexcliber.bsky.social · 06/10/2023

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.

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Alex Liber @alexcliber.bsky.social · 06/10/2023

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

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Alex Liber @alexcliber.bsky.social · 06/10/2023

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

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Alex Liber @alexcliber.bsky.social · 06/10/2023

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

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Alex Liber @alexcliber.bsky.social · 06/10/2023

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

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Alex Liber @alexcliber.bsky.social · 06/10/2023

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

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Alex Liber @alexcliber.bsky.social · 06/10/2023

🚨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

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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.

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Alex Liber @alexcliber.bsky.social · 05/10/2023

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

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Alex Liber @alexcliber.bsky.social · 28/09/2023

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....

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E-cigarette Flavor Restrictions’ Effects on Tobacco Product Sales

Over 375 US localities and 7 states have adopted permanent restrictions on sales of flavored electronic nicotine delivery systems (“ENDS”). These policies’ effe

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Alex Liber @alexcliber.bsky.social · 28/09/2023

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

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Alex Liber @alexcliber.bsky.social · 26/09/2023

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...

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Funded Research: Tobacco Regulatory Science Program

Research projects on tobacco regulatory research funded through TRSP.

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