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Ollie Ganz

@otg2014.bsky.social
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Tobacco control, public health, Assistant Professor Rutgers School of Public Health, Rutgers Institute for Nicotine and Tobacco Studies

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Rutgers Institute for Nicotine and Tobacco Studies (INTS) @ru-ints.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
A recently published study led by INTS core member Dr. Ollie Ganz aimed to identify which beliefs about menthol cigarette and flavored cigar policies may be most important to address in future educational campaigns. Read more: www.rutgers.edu/news/educati...
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Educational Campaigns Could Shift Views on Menthol Cigarettes and Flavored Cigar Bans
Rutgers researchers lead survey of Black adults, identifying misunderstandings about how a ban would affect their communities.
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Rutgers Tobacco Dependence Program @ru-tdp.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
Attention healthcare professionals 🚨 The Tobacco Treatment Specialist (TTS) Training is a valuable virtual course for pharmacists, social workers, nurses, psychologists, and any other professionals working with individuals who use tobacco products. ➡️ tobaccoprogram.org
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Rutgers Tobacco Dependence Program @ru-tdp.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
📢 Register here: tobaccoprogram.org. Don’t wait—spots will be filled first-come, first-served! View our video and check our website for additional info, including cost and CE credits available.
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Rutgers Tobacco Dependence Program @ru-tdp.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
Registration for January 2026 Tobacco Treatment Specialist (TTS) Training is now open! Register before January 5th to participate in the upcoming TTS training live Zoom sessions on January 26-27 ➡️ www.tobaccoprogram.org/index.php?sr...
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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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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
NYC friends: this poor dog was almost on his freedom ride out of the pound when his foster didn't show up on him. He's now in danger of being put down. Do you have space in your home and heart to adopt him? ❤️ Also, lots of animals at this NYC shelter who need a home. nycacc.app#/browse/225834
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Christina Jewett @by-cjewett.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
NEW: Health Secretary Robbert F. Kennedy Jr. has said chronic diseases are his top priority. But cuts to tobacco control programs - targeting the top driver of preventable death and disease - have decimated key services including a high school group in rural West Virginia: GIFT:
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Trump Budget Cuts Hobble Antismoking Programs
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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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Kevin Schroth @kevinrjschroth.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
Thanks @JMacNYC and @jgitchell.bsky.social for having me on Shaping Vaping. I describe my view: State AGs should use MSA-style litigation to regulate e-cigarettes. Despite our disagreements, it was good to search for common ground. @ru-ints.bsky.social @rutgerssph.bsky.social x.com/VaporAmerica...
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American Vapor Manufacturers on X: "🎙️ Join our @JMacNYC, special guest @jgitchell and esteemed professor @kevinschroth from @RutgersSPH. https://t.co/Zf4iC2PhV1" / X
🎙️ Join our @JMacNYC, special guest @jgitchell and esteemed professor @kevinschroth from @RutgersSPH. https://t.co/Zf4iC2PhV1
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Rutgers Institute for Nicotine and Tobacco Studies (INTS) @ru-ints.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
Assistant Professor @otg2014.bsky.social and her colleagues penned a new letter to the editor of Nicotine & Tobacco Research on how a WNBA star's cigar brand collaboration, amid growing interest in women's basketball, may increase the appeal & sales of cigars. ➡️ academic.oup.com/ntr/advance-...
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Letter to the Editor: Women’s National Basketball Association (WNBA) Star Athlete Kelsey Plum gets Signature Premium Cigar Amidst Record-Breaking WNBA Viewership
Ollie Ganz, DrPH, Cristine D Delnevo, PhD, Andrea C Villanti, PhD, Kevin R J Schroth, JD, Jennifer Cornacchione Ross, PhD; Letter to the Editor: Women’s Na
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Jenny Cornacchione Ross @jencornacc.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
I spend a lot of my free time sending cigar-related Instagram posts back and forth with Ollie, and we published a paper from it! @otg2014.bsky.social with @kevinrjschroth.bsky.social @crisdelnevo.bsky.social & Andrea Villanti @ru-ints.bsky.social
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Rutgers Institute for Nicotine and Tobacco Studies (INTS) @ru-ints.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Tobacco Control published a new paper by @otg2014.bsky.social, with co-authors Patrick Barnwell and @crisdelnevo.bsky.social, which examines the top-selling e-cigarette brands and differences in top-selling brands by regions in the USA ➡️ tobaccocontrol.bmj.com/content/earl...
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Regional variations and market share of FDA-authorised products for top-selling electronic cigarette brands in the USA: 2022–2024
Background This paper examines top-selling electronic cigarette (e-cigarette) brands and differences in top-selling brands by region in the USA from 2022 to 2024, and the market share of Food and Drug...
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Nicotine & Tobacco Research Journal @ntrjournal.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
The tagged section of tobacco brands’ Instagram pages contains posts suggestive of paid partnerships between the brand and social media influencers, find Scott Donaldson et al. academic.oup.com/ntr/advance-...
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Content analysis of tobacco brands’ “Tagged” section on Instagram
AbstractIntroduction. Brands can be “tagged” in Instagram posts to communicate a partnership with a social media influencer. Little is known about the cont
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Jace D. Flatt, PhD, MPH (They/He) @jaceflatt.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Sharing for visibility www.statnews.com/2025/03/03/n... Thank you @statnews.com
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NIH terminates ongoing grants for LGBTQ+ research
Saying that "research programs based on gender identity are often unscientific," the agency wrote to scientists to cancel current grants.
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Alt NIH Bluesky 🧪 @altnih4science.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
“We have to attack the universities… professors are the enemy.” #NIH funds universities. Jay Bhattacharya believes what Vance says here too. Bhattacharya was chosen by Trump because he would attack universities. Scientists must oppose Bhattacharya’s confirmation, and there is not much time left.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 03/03/2025
NEW: One million children will go untreated for severe malnutrition, up to 166,000 people will die from malaria and 200,000 more children will be paralyzed by polio over the next decade, internal memos estimated. The USAID programs were cut anyway. By Brett Murphy and @annamaria.bsky.social
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Internal Memos: Senior USAID Leaders Warned Trump Appointees of Hundreds of Thousands of Deaths From Closing Agency
One million children will go untreated for severe malnutrition, up to 166,000 people will die from malaria and 200,000 more children will be paralyzed by polio over the next decade, the memos estimate...
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Mary Hrywna @maryhrywna.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
I stand with Ukraine. If you were as horrified as I was by today's meeting at the White House, you can email your outrage to: comments@whitehouse.gov.
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Ollie Ganz @otg2014.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
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RFK Jr. moves to eliminate public comment on HHS decisions
HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. moved to rescind the longtime practice of giving the public a chance to comment on the health agency’s plans.
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Ollie Ganz @otg2014.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
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U.S. Terminates Funding for Polio, H.I.V., Malaria and Nutrition Programs Around the World (Gift Article)
Here are some of the 5,800 contracts the Trump administration formally canceled this week in a wave of terse emails.
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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Please look up the influenza epidemic of 1918-19 to understand that the CDC not selecting strains for next year’s vaccines sets the stage for a public health calamity that will, without doubt and at bare minimum, catastrophically and directly impact people you know. This is a five alarm fire.
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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 27/02/2025
This relentless assault on vaccines will kill people. www.reuters.com/business/hea...
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Trump administration weighs pulling funding for Moderna bird flu vaccine, Bloomberg News reports
U.S. health officials are reevaluating a $590 million contract that was awarded to Moderna for the development of its bird flu vaccine, Bloomberg News reported on Wednesday, citing sources.
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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 27/02/2025
Look at these numbers—not as statistics, but as lives lost because of the dismantling of USAID and the wildly successful PEPFAR program. These are real people—families, parents, spouses, children—being condemned to death. Don't let the scale numb your empathy. pepfar.impactcounter.com
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PEPFAR Impact Tracker
Track the impact of PEPFAR funding halt
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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 27/02/2025
The FDA just cancelled a meeting to select flu strains for next season's flu shots. "It's unclear what the canceled meeting will mean for Americans who want to get a flu vaccine next season." www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
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FDA cancels meeting to select flu strains for next season's shots
The canceled meeting comes just days after a CDC vaccine advisory committee meeting was abruptly postponed.
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Dr. Sven-Eric Jordt #TobRegSky @sejordt.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
#TobRegSky #PedSky #MedSky #EpiSky #addictionsci #policysky #polisky🛟 Our study on artifical sweeteners in Zyn and other nicotine pouch brands featured in @dukemedschool.bsky.social @dukehealth.bsky.social news.
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Dr. Tom Frieden @drtomfrieden.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
The abrupt terminations of more than 1,000 employees, including new Epidemic Intelligence Officers, across CDC are deeply disturbing. For more than 70 years, EIS officers have served on America’s front line as its disease detectives, ready at a moment’s notice to respond to emerging outbreaks.
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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
If you are a federal worker who was let go today, I'd love to hear from you. I'm interested in both your work for the federal government and the impact of this decision on your life. Contact me on signal at juddlegum.47 or use the QR code below. I can keep you anonymous if you prefer.
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JAMA @jama.com · 13/02/2025
🧵 US states that implemented abortion bans saw higher than expected infant mortality rates, with larger increases among Black infants and those in southern states, according to this analysis of US national vital statistics data from 2012–2023. ja.ma/4aVchPn #MedSky
Figure 1.  Trends in Biannual US Infant Mortality Rates, 2012-2023
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Cris Delnevo @crisdelnevo.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Attacks on NIH grants have taken several forms and it’s hard to keep track. These include funding freeze (TRO resumed flow of $), drastic cuts to indirects (also legal action) and the freeze on issuing NOAs for new and non competing renewals. This last one has not gotten much attention.
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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
Get in Dorks, we are going protesting. STAND UP FOR SCIENCE. MARCH 7th 12-4pm. DC AND YOUR STATE CAPITALS. More information to come.
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Joe Allen @joeallenjoe.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
This framing is their framing, and NYT took the bait. The correct and accurate framing is: “Deep cuts to medical research threatens progress on cancer and heart disease research, costs the economy $80B, and threatens 300,000 jobs across red and blue states”
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Nicotine & Tobacco Research Journal @ntrjournal.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
In the US, more than half of pregnant people who smoke and nearly all of Black pregnant people who smoke use menthol cigarettes, find Laura Stroud et al. academic.oup.com/ntr/advance-... @laurastroudphd.bsky.social
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Menthol cigarette use in US pregnancies: Prevalence, racial/ethnic disparities, and associated characteristics from the 2010-2019 National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH)
AbstractIntroduction. Pregnant people who smoke constitute a uniquely vulnerable population likely to be impacted by a menthol cigarette (MC) ban. However,
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Rutgers Institute for Nicotine and Tobacco Studies (INTS) @ru-ints.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
In this new Nicotine & Tobacco Research Journal paper, authors Michelle Bover Manderski, @maryhrywna.bsky.social, and @crisdelnevo.bsky.social confirm that including product images in surveys can improve the measurement accuracy of nicotine pouch use. #Rutgerssph academic.oup.com/ntr/advance-...
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Use of images to assess awareness and use of emerging nicotine pouch products
AbstractIntroduction. Accurate measurement is critical for understanding the population health impact of nicotine pouches, yet precise, standardized measur
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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
If you would like to see how much economic activity and grants and how many people are employed through NIH in your state, just use this handy website. And then contact your Congressional Rep and tell them to prioritize NIH. 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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Nicotine & Tobacco Research Journal @ntrjournal.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
ZYN-related posts on TikTok often featured pro-tobacco themes, such as humor and product use, while rarely mentioning anti-tobacco themes like cessation, find Scott Donaldson et al. academic.oup.com/ntr/advance-...
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Describing ZYN-related content on TikTok: content analysis
AbstractIntroduction. Nicotine pouches are the fastest-growing oral smokeless tobacco or nicotine product category in the United States, and there are conc
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