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Lauren Pacek

@lrpacek.bsky.social
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Assistant Prof at Rutgers Institute for Nicotine & Tobacco Studies | Epidemiologist, house plant enthusiast, gardener | Research interests: tob reg sci, medication adherence, vulnerable populations, dual/poly tobacco use | Opinions my own

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I am generally against both prisons & capital punishment but I would gladly man the electric chair in the dungeon where the people who made this magazine belong
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
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.
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Rutgers Institute for Nicotine and Tobacco Studies (INTS) @ru-ints.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
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...
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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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Lauren Pacek @lrpacek.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
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Mass firings hit US tobacco regulators overwhelmed with thousands of new products
The FDA’s Center for Tobacco Products, which is not taxpayer-funded, oversees an industry whose products kill nearly half a million Americans each year.
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Eric Feigl-Ding @drericding.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
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...
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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
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Rutgers Institute for Nicotine and Tobacco Studies (INTS) @ru-ints.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
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. ow.ly/NpJs50UTzWg
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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
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Wish I knew somebody who was in one of the two halls of Congress right now.
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Lauren Pacek @lrpacek.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
🤦🏻‍♀️
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Mike Feigin 🥯 @mikefeigin.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHJJJHH Anyway, how’s everyone doing?
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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
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...
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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.
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j m gabriel, a circus of faults and vices @jmgabriel.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
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
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Sarah S. Dermody, Ph.D., C.Psych. @sarahsdermody.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
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...
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Postdoctoral Fellowships for Black Scholars
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Jonathan Edward Durham @thisone0verhere.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Sometimes I let the void scream back at me just as a little treat
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drewtoothpaste @drewtoothpaste.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
retirement
i've run the numbers on your retirement... have you considered dying young?
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Cris Delnevo @crisdelnevo.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
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Trump hits NIH with ‘devastating’ freezes on meetings, travel, communications, and hiring
Researchers facing
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Zoe McElligott @nanopharmnc.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
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-...
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NIH In Your State - United For Medical Research
Select a state on the map to see the impact of NIH funding across America.
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Lauren Pacek @lrpacek.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
Why can't we have nice things?
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JAMA @jama.com · 09/12/2024
Viewpoint: Implementation of a low-nicotine product standard has the potential to be the most significant tobacco control policy of the 21st century. ja.ma/3OKcb2X
PDF preview of "What to Expect From a Low-Nicotine Product Standard for Cigarettes."
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Dr. Sven-Eric Jordt #TobRegSky @sejordt.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
#TobRegSky #PedSky #MedSky #EpiSky #addictionsci #policysky #polisky 🛟
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Cris Delnevo @crisdelnevo.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
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...
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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...
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Neil Renic @ncrenic.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Two stages of writing: 1) This shouldn't take too long 2) Oh no
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