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Jessie King Jensen

@jesskingjensen.bsky.social
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Asst prof Rutgers Institute for Nicotine & Tobacco Studies | Public health & Health ed | Outdoor enthusiast | Nashville, TN | #gogators 🐊

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Rutgers Institute for Nicotine and Tobacco Studies (INTS) @ru-ints.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Featured in the new CRST supplement issue: Dr. Jessie Jensen and INTS coauthors analyzed nearly 10,000 tobacco products collected from U.S. schools, providing timely insights into the products, brands, and flavors reaching youth. #TobaccoResearch www.sciencedirect.com/journal/prev...
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Nicotine & Tobacco Research Journal @ntrjournal.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
FDA-authorized e-cigarettes may appeal to over half of adults who smoke, but intentions to use them are lower among lower-SES adults and those not planning to quit, find Julia Chen-Sankey et al. academic.oup.com/ntr/advance-...
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Intentions to Use FDA-Authorized E-Cigarettes Among Adults Who Smoke Cigarettes in the United States
ABSTRACTIntroduction. Little is known about intentions to use Food and Drug Administration-authorized e-cigarettes (FAEs) among U.S. adults who smoke cigar
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Rutgers Institute for Nicotine and Tobacco Studies (INTS) @ru-ints.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
The annual SRNT conference is this week! INTS faculty and staff are presenting over 70 unique presentations throughout the conference. Take a look at our INTS schedule of presentations by clicking the link below. We hope to see you there! #SRNT2026 ints.rutgers.edu/news/ints-sr...
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INTS SRNT 2026 Schedule – Institute for Nicotine and Tobacco Studies
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Jake Wright @bcnjake.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
I just updated my explainer for why I don't allow generative AI in my classrooms with a new section and an expanded section. New: Generative AI has a literal body count Expanded: Generative AI is dehumanizing CETERUM AUTEM CENSEO INTELLIGENTIA ARTIFICIALIS ESSE DELENDAM
Al is dehumanizing I've saved the most important part for last. GenAl is dehumanizing. By this, I mean that using genAl means saying that the people involved in what you're trying to do don't matter. I've already talked about part of this; building an entire commercial enterprise around comical levels of theft while racking up a body count is not a project that takes people's humanity seriously. It says that the people being harmed don't matter.

If I were to use genAl to grade your work, which is now a possibility with new Canvas integrations, I would be saying that your work is not worth taking seriously enough to read myself. It's saying that you don't matter enough to take seriously. A world where genAl grades genAl generated submissions from a genAl generated assignment is not a world where people and the work they do matters, and I refuse to live in that world.

The dehumanizing aspect of genAl is even worse when you consider the effects of genAl on you as a student. Using genAl as a substitute for doing the work yourself robs you of your voice. It prevents you from developing your own sense of who you are, what you believe, and how you express that in your own unique way and replaces it with statistically generated slop that is literally incapable of forming a novel thought. In a world that works to dehumanize us every day to say who we are and the relationships we form don't matter I don't want to add to that work. I don't want to do this because the relationships you form matter. Your voice matters.Generative Al has a literal body count

In the short time genAl platforms have been available, they have repeatedly encouraged people to harm themselves or others. This includes murder and suicide. In one case, ChatGPT told a user who killed his mother before killing himself that his mother may have been a demon, that he "wasn't crazy" to think she tried to poison him using the air vents of his car, and said that it ChatGPT-would meet the man in the afterlife. In another case, ChatGPT encouraged a man to commit suicide in part by rewriting the text of Goodnight Moon to what one news report called "a nihilistic philosophy that romanticized suicide and encouraged him to let go of his life." There are cases where genAl has not only encouraged suicidal ideation but told users to hide these thoughts from loved ones.

These cases were not users who found some exploit or were pushing the edges of with new technology. They were normal people convinced by a computer program to do terrible things when using that program normally. These aren't the only cases. There have been enough deaths related to Al chatbots that there's a Wikipedia article. OpenAI's data suggests that hundreds of people in mental distress interact with ChatGPT weekly. This is not the behavior of a moral company.

In 1982, seven people died in Chicago when someone tampered with Extra-Strength Tylenol, lacing pills with cyanide. Johnson & Johnson responded by voluntarily recalling all Extra-Strength Tylenol in Chicago, offering refunds to anyone who had purchased it, ceasing advertising, and taking out national ads advising consumers to not use Tylenol. Compare that to what companies like OpenAl have done in response to murders and suicides encouraged by their products.

A platform that encourages murder and self-harm under normal conditions is not a platform I think belongs in my classroom. The fact that genAI companies aren't taking meaningful steps to address these outcomes only makes it worse.
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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
I can’t believe how much of the Trump era is about solving problems that *don’t* exist while making all the problems that *do* exist, worse. There is no one who thinks the biggest problem with air travel right now is not having an area to do pull-ups.
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
I note in passing that the base salaries of the head football coaches at the University of Nebraska and the University of Iowa are ~$8 million where that for the head football coach at Harvard is $126 thousand. 9/10
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 27/11/2025
Marilyn Whirlwind. ICE accosted Marilyn Whirlwind. They've got to go.
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‘Northern Exposure’ actor gave ICE agents in Redmond her tribal ID. They called it ‘fake,’ she says
Indigenous actor Elaine Miles of "Northern Exposure" was detained by ICE at a Redmond bus stop. When she showed them her Tribal ID, they told her it was fake.
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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
What a horrific tragedy. This is what happens when people decide it’s acceptable for drug users to die, and when we allow law enforcement to pretend to be experts on drugs and how drugs work. It’s very likely that this man would be alive today if he had received medical care instead of imprisonment.
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Rebecca R Helm @rebeccarhelm.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA 10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)
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Lauren Pacek @lrpacek.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
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
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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
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Rutgers Institute for Nicotine and Tobacco Studies (INTS) @ru-ints.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
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 ➡️ jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
FORTUNATELY, for everyone we have a fun way to tell your House rep that you think Bobby Jr is a quack and has to go… For $3 we will hand deliver (by a man in a duck costume) a rubber ducky with a message to “impeach the quack” to your rep! QUACK-O-GRAMS! act.standupforscience.net/fundraising/...
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Help power the Summer Fight For Science movement!
Donate now to help mobilize the fight for science and democracy. Every contribution matters!
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Benjamin Mazer @mazer.us · 09/08/2025
He called the CDC a cesspool of corruption that lied about the COVID vaccines. Now someone has committed violence because of the same misinformation.
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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
I wrote today about why we should shudder about ICE and CBP adding 19,000 new agents and officers — because we should terrified of WHO would want to join CBP and ICE amid politicized authoritarian images like this: www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/four-fears...
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Four Fears about ICE, Trump's New Masked Monster
We're about to pour $200 billion into immigration enforcement—it's a terrible idea, sure, but understanding *specifically* why is important.
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Rebecca Sear @rebeccasear.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
“Historically, no one lived past age 35” "I’ve heard *so* many versions of this claim, including recently from a menopause doctor (implying menopause is not “natural” because noone lived long enough to go through it). Every time someone states this “fact,” a demographer loses a piece of their soul"
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There Were Still Old People When Life Expectancy Was 35.
A demography myth that won't die
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Miranda Yaver @mirandayaver.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
Excited that my JAMA Pediatrics article with @jeremyfaust.bsky.social @bhrenton.bsky.social @hmkyale.bsky.social and others is now published. It turns out that permissive firearm laws aren’t great if you want to reduce pediatric firearm deaths. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
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Firearm Laws and Pediatric Mortality in the US
This study attempts to measure excess mortality due to firearms among US children aged 0 to 17 years after the McDonald v Chicago US Supreme Court decision (2010).
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 04/02/2025
Modern-Day Oracles or Bullshit Machines? Jevin West (@jevinwest.bsky.social) and I have spent the last eight months developing the course on large language models (LLMs) that we think every college freshman needs to take. thebullshitmachines.com
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INTRODUCTION
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Cris Delnevo @crisdelnevo.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
From the makers of Zyn. How is this Rocket Pop Cigar ok? Who knew summer could taste like a carcinogen?
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Ody @odeecs.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
This is your friendly reminder that generative A.I. is not "intelligence" and it's not the "wave of the future." No. Large Language Models (LLMs) are super-expensive bullshit machines that suck up a fuck-ton of stolen data, including private info and creative content, in order to badly mimic it.
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Rutgers Institute for Nicotine and Tobacco Studies (INTS) @ru-ints.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
2025 ESIL awardee, @juliachensankey.bsky.social, will deliver her lecture in the second of three NIH ODP Early Stage Investigator Lectures of 2025 on June 5 at 10 a.m. ET. Register now ➡️ prevention.nih.gov/news-events/early-stage-investigator-lecture/2025-awardees @rutgerssph.bsky.social
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Rutgers Addiction Research Center @rutgersarc.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Only 34 vape products—just 4 flavored—are FDA-authorized, yet thousands are still sold. @kevinrjschroth.bsky.social of @ru-ints.bsky.social @rutgerssph.bsky.social proposes targeting distributors through lawsuits to stop illegal vape sales & bring shelves into compliance. Read more: loom.ly/oG8aE8k
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Lawsuits Could Choke Off the Candy‑Flavored Vape Pipeline
A Rutgers Health researcher recommends that states borrow the master settlement playbook to curtail the distribution of unauthorized electronic cigarettes.
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 10/05/2025
Poisoning the air of a Black community for a fucking chatbot.
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'How come I can’t breathe?': Musk's data company draws a backlash in Memphis
The company’s turbines — enough to power 280,000 homes — run without emission controls in an area that leads Tennessee in asthma hospitalizations.
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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 04/05/2025
I hope everyone working on LLMs has reckoned with their role in building a technology that, so far, has offered little to no benefit to humanity — while causing real harm by degrading art, undermining labor in creative industries, and straight up automating political propaganda
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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 02/05/2025
At this point I'm honestly just calling my reps and bluntly saying you're old between the two of us I'm the one more likely to survive an ecoli infection. Maybe do something about this.
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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
There are few things as cost effective as Narcan, especially in a country where (entirely preventable) opioid overdoses have been a leading cause of death for years. For every 6 kits distributed 1 OD is prevented. The $56M in this grant trained >66K people and distributed >282,500 kits in 2024 alone
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RFK Jr. to End 'Godsend' Narcan Program That Helped Reduce Overdose Deaths Despite His Past Heroin Addiction
Despite overcoming heroin addiction himself, RFK Jr. is backing plans to cut a critical Narcan program that helped reduce overdose deaths.
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Patti Zettler @pzettler.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
Out today in @jama.com, me and @nathancortez.bsky.social examine how the drastic staffing cuts at FDA run counter to FDA's many statutory obligations and the bargains embodied in user fee provisions - and put public health, innovation, and all of us at risk. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
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The FDA’s Crisis Is Everyone’s Crisis
This Viewpoint discusses the Trump administration’s firings of thousands of US Food and Drug Administration employees and the ramifications of those actions on the agency’s congressionally given publi...
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Well, my main thought is that it is too mid to be destroying labor and the earth for.
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Micah Berman @micahberman.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
These are all good questions. Important to note that the user fees that fund FDA's Center for Tobacco Products ($712 million/year) are set by statute and can ONLY be used for purposes relating to tobacco regulation.
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Jessie King Jensen @jesskingjensen.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Don’t want unqualified political appointees across NIH? Comments can be made at www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...
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Improving Performance, Accountability and Responsiveness in the Civil Service
The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) is proposing a rule to increase career employee accountability. Agency supervisors report great difficulty removing employees for poor performance or misconduc...
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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
Gonna keep repeating this: 1) Fluoride added for dental health (which improves cardiovascular health, neurologic functioning, and more) is NOT toxic. 2) Water with naturally high levels of fluoride (not added, levels are much higher) can be a risk for toxicity. He is going after 1 and ignoring 2.
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 07/04/2025
Do not normalize children dying from measles. Measles was previously eliminated in the US, thanks to vaccines. When children die from measles, it means that adults have catastrophically failed to protect them because they have rejected basic science.
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OnlyGators.com: Florida Gators news @gators.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
🚨🐊FINAL (FOUR): (1) Florida #Gators advance to National Championship Game for first time since 2007 with 79-73 win over (1) Auburn! 🔹Walter Clayton Jr.: CAREER-HIGH 34 points
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OnlyGators.com: Florida Gators news @gators.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
Go #Gators
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Rutgers Institute for Nicotine and Tobacco Studies (INTS) @ru-ints.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
@jesskingjensen.bsky.social and @crisdelnevo.bsky.social are authors of a new Preventive Medicine paper that examines the impact of cigar pack policies on cigar sales. @rutgerssph.bsky.social @rwjms.bsky.social Learn more ➡️ www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Michael Tynan, MPH @tynan.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Cigarettes are the only consumer product that when used correctly kills the user. If you’re worried about chemicals in cereal and food, wait until you find out about the 7,000 chemicals in cigarettes, including at least 69 known to cause cancer.
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Michael Tynan, MPH @tynan.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
CDC’s tobacco program wasn’t eliminated to save money. Federal employee salaries are only about 4% of the Federal budget. The Office on Smoking & Health was eliminated BECAUSE our work is highly efficient and cost effective. Make no mistake that tobacco companies won today.
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Joshua Weitz @joshuasweitz.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Working with an interdisciplinary team, we have developed a website to communicate how the White House's proposed cuts to health research would cause losses of $16B and 68,500 jobs. Find out how your community may be impacted. Explore more at SCIMaP: scienceimpacts.org a 🧵
US map via scienceimpacts.org visualization of economic loss due to IDC cuts to 15% as part of Feb 7, 2025 executive order, with shading denoting intensity of cuts.
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 26/03/2025
Here NIH officials target contracts that "may be related to any form of censorship at all or *directing people to believe one idea over another regarding health outcomes*." Directing people to believe one idea over another regarding health outcomes IS public health. It's also education.
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Fast Women @fastwomen.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
From 1968 to 1999 women had to undergo a chromosome test to compete at the Olympics. Athletes, doctors, and ethicists worked hard to end the testing. Now Sebastian Coe says World Athletics is bringing it back, in time for the World Championships in September. www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/m...
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World Athletics mandates cheek swabs to ‘doggedly protect female category’
World Athletics has approved the introduction of cheek swabbing to determine if an athlete is biologically female, Sebastian Coe has announced
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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
This is the wildest story I have literally ever read. In any normal circumstances, a half-dozen senior officials would be forced to resign over this—starting with the National Security Advisor. And I doubt anyone will face any accountability at all.
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megsnm.bsky.social @megsnm.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
They are dismantling education so that public education fails and it can be privatized for them to profit from
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
The contempt they have for disabled children is rooted in a mistaken belief that there aren't too many of them. Estimates show that between 1-in-8 and 1-in-5 students in America have some kind of learning disability. There are an awful lot of SPED families out here, and we will *fight* this shit.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
You want to see an octopus riding a shark. 🎥: University of Auckland www.nytimes.com/2025/03/20/s...
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Rutgers Institute for Nicotine and Tobacco Studies (INTS) @ru-ints.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
The 2025 Annual Meeting of the Society for Research on Nicotine & Tobacco (SRNT) was a success! INTS members presented over 40 presentations across a wide range of research over the 3 1/2 day conference in New Orleans, LA. We will see you next year, SRNT!
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Rutgers Institute for Nicotine and Tobacco Studies (INTS) @ru-ints.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
The INTS team will present posters, symposiums, and more at this week's SRNT conference! View our schedule of presentations ➡️ ints.rutgers.edu/ints-srnt-20... #SRNT2025
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Rutgers Institute for Nicotine and Tobacco Studies (INTS) @ru-ints.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
INTS Associate Professor, Kevin Schroth, discusses the FDA's impact on tobacco harm reduction with Regulator Watch ➡️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJic...
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Defend Public Health @defendpublichealth.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
This is a very thoughtful and detailed piece by Julie Scofield @juelzly.bsky.social and colleagues about the quandary faced by public health professionals when given an order to do something that is against their code of ethics. www.healthaffairs.org/content/fore...
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When Executive Directives And Public Health Ethics Collide | Health Affairs Forefront
Recent policy directives from the White House seek to compel actions that are contrary to widely accepted standards of ethical public health practice.
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Cris Delnevo @crisdelnevo.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
DO IT tobaccoreporter.com/2025/03/03/p... the egregiousness of White Owl & Game makes PMI's so called 'smoke free' mission a farce. In 2024 PMI sold $540+million in US C-stores - that’s 800 million cigars- 55% were heavily flavored w/names like Iced Donut, Tropical Twist, White Russian & Rocky Road
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PMI Looking to Sell Off Cigar Biz - Tobacco Reporter
Philip Morris is reportedly exploring the $1 billion sale of its cigar business in the U.S. as it shifts toward smoke-free products.
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Patti Zettler @pzettler.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
I'm delighted to reenter the academic writing fray with my @osucccjames.bsky.social colleagues Ted Wagener & @micahberman.bsky.social! Check our @nejm.org piece about the very strong legal and scientific footing on which FDA's landmark nicotine proposed rule rests. www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
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What’s Next for Nicotine? The Coming Legal and Political Battles over an FDA Proposal | NEJM
In January, the FDA proposed substantially limiting the level of nicotine permitted in cigarettes. The proposal is expected to face strong industry opposition during a time of political uncertainty.
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