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Harry Tattan-Birch

@tattanbirch.bsky.social
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Senior Research Fellow at UCL | GradStat | Vaping, Smoking and Behavioural Science | Fan of Open Science

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Harry Tattan-Birch @tattanbirch.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
In our new paper in The Lancet Public Health, we find that nicotine pouch use is rising in Britain, driven largely by increases among young adults, particularly young men. 🔗 Press release: ucl.ac.uk/news/2025/de... 📄 Paper: thelancet.com/journals/lan...
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Nicotine pouch rise driven by young men
Use of nicotine pouches has risen substantially in Great Britain over the last five years, particularly among young men, with one in 13 (7.5%) men aged 16 to 24 now using them, according to a new study led by researchers at UCL.
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Dan Lewer @danlewer.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
We wrote an article explaining why you shouldn't put several variables into a regression model and report which are statistically significant - even as exploratory research. bmjmedicine.bmj.com/content/4/1/.... How did we do?
A "methods primer" article in the journal "BMJ Medicine", titled "Factors associated with: problems of using exploratory multivariable regression to identify causal risk factors"
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Addiction journal @addictionjournal.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
Cigarette smoking across life from 1946 to 2018: Harmonisation of four British birth cohort studies buff.ly/aNTbcId @lorenkock.bsky.social @tattanbirch.bsky.social
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Daniel Kotz @danielkotz.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
Harry Tattan-Birch introducing TONAL: the Tobacco Or Nicotine Abstinence Log at the SRNT-E conference osf.io/f2t6r/files/... @tattanbirch.bsky.social
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Addiction journal @addictionjournal.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
Among people who use heroin, tobacco smoking and illegal drugs cause a similar number of premature deaths buff.ly/tIC0Fqp @danlewer.bsky.social @tattanbirch.bsky.social @sharoncox.bsky.social
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Dan Lewer @danlewer.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
We did some life table modelling among people who use heroin. Tobacco smoking causes as many premature deaths in this group as illegal drugs. Yet public health policies overlook smoking: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... New research with @sharoncox.bsky.social @tattanbirch.bsky.social
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Sarah Jackson @drsarahejackson.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
Worth a read. We need to move beyond arbitrary categorisation of continuous variables or assuming that associations are linear - and use more flexible modelling approaches to capture non-linear relationships. www.bmj.com/content/390/...
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Dealing with continuous variables and modelling non-linear associations in healthcare data: practical guide
Proper handling of continuous variables is crucial in healthcare research, for example, within regression modelling for descriptive, explanatory, or predictive purposes. However, inadequate methods ar...
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Melissa Oldham @melissaoldham.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
@tattanbirch.bsky.social is a Senior Research Fellow and Statistician at UCL. He has extensive media experience including televised and print news interviews, documentaries, national radio, and podcasts. Harry will offer advice on preparing for media interviews as an addiction researcher.
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Melissa Oldham @melissaoldham.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
Join us 15 July, 12–1pm for a free webinar. Whether you're curious about starting a podcast, pitching your work to journalists, or responding when they come to you.. this event will offer practical insight on sharing your research with integrity, impact, and confidence. Sign up: tinyurl.com/3bcw8juu
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Beyond the journal: Sharing addiction science through the media
Discover how to share your research with integrity, impact, and confidence across traditional news outlets and contemporary media platforms.
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Sarah Jackson @drsarahejackson.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Concerns have been raised that vaping has created a 'new generation of nicotine addicts'. We examined changes in the proportion of US high-school students reporting symptoms of nicotine dependence, in the context of changing patterns of nicotine product use. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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Changing patterns of nicotine product use and nicotine dependence among United States high‐school students: The National Youth Tobacco Survey, 2014–2023
Background and aim Concerns have been raised that e-cigarettes have created a new generation of people addicted to nicotine. This study aimed to measure changes in the proportion of US high-school s...
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Melissa Oldham @melissaoldham.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
We have a new paper out today in Lancet Public Health looking at increases in alcohol-specific deaths in England. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Harry Tattan-Birch @tattanbirch.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
Will the disposable vape ban help reduce youth vaping? We discuss this in our editorial out today. Our conclusion: 1/3 Great to work alongside Katie East and Eve Taylor on this one! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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England's disposable vape ban: An inadequate solution to youth vaping with potential unintended consequences
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