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Tobacco Online Policy Seminar (TOPS) @tobaccopolicy.org · Aug 13

🚨Next TOPS🚨
➡️Friday, August 22 2pm ET
➡️"Effect of a minimum floor price law for tobacco products on tobacco sales in Oakland, California"
➡️ @justinwhite.bsky.social from @bostonu.bsky.social
👉Register: bit.ly/TOPS-Summer2025

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Tobacco Online Policy Seminar (TOPS) @tobaccopolicy.org · Jul 10

🚨TOMORROW🚨
➡️Friday, July 11 2pm ET
➡️"Interventions for quitting vaping: Findings from a new Cochrane Living Systematic Review"
➡️ @jhb19.bsky.social from
@umassamherst.bsky.social
👉Register: bit.ly/TOPS-Summer2025

Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Tobacco Online Policy Seminar (TOPS). After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar.

The Tobacco Online Policy Seminar (TOPS) is a free multidisciplinary, international forum for research with tobacco policy implications using experimental or quasi-experimental study designs. All 2-...

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SRNT Policy and Regulatory Science Network @policysrnt.bsky.social · Jun 24

Starting August 17, #Nepal will lead the global #tobaccocontrol #policy by becoming the first country to mandate full-coverage health warnings on tobacco packaging (80% color graphic images & 20% warning text). 🛑🚬 For details ▶️ english.khabarhub.com/2025/19/4686...

Govt to enforce 100% graphic warnings on tobacco products from August

KATHMANDU: Starting from August 17, all tobacco products sold in Nepal must feature graphic health warnings and messages covering 100 percent of their packaging, as per new government regulations aime...

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Tobacco Online Policy Seminar (TOPS) @tobaccopolicy.org · May 28

🚨Next TOPS🚨
➡️Friday, June 6 2pm ET
➡️"Measuring Changes in Tobacco Product Sales and Availability following California’s Statewide Flavored Tobacco Sales Restriction – A Synthetic Control Method using Retail Scanner Data"
➡️Doris Gammon from @rti.bsky.social
👉Register: bit.ly/TOPS-Summer2...

Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Tobacco Online Policy Seminar (TOPS). After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar.

The Tobacco Online Policy Seminar (TOPS) is a free multidisciplinary, international forum for research with tobacco policy implications using experimental or quasi-experimental study designs. All 2-...

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SRNT Policy and Regulatory Science Network @policysrnt.bsky.social · May 28

Speakers will include:
Marc Feinstein, MA, a NIDA T32-funded PhD trainee @uvmvermont.bsky.social,
Dr. Cassidy White, PhD, a Research Associate @wakeforest.bsky.social, and
Dr. Roberta Freitas-Lemos, PhD, an Assistant Professor at the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute @virginiatech.bsky.social

SRNT Policy and Regulatory Science Network @policysrnt.bsky.social · May 28

📌 On June 3 @11am-12:30pm EST📌 mark your calendars & join our webinar on Advancing Nicotine and Tobacco Regulatory Science: Insights from the Experimental Tobacco Marketplace. Register ⏬ us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: SRNT - PRSN Summer Webinar. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar.

SRNT DISCLAIMER TOBACCO INDUSTRY AFFILIATION Persons employed by an entity that manufactures commercial tobacco products or an entity owned in part or in whole, including intellectual properties, by...

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Tobacco Online Policy Seminar (TOPS) @tobaccopolicy.org · Apr 23

📢TOMORROW📢
➡️THURSDAY, April 24 🚨5pm ET🚨
➡️"Cytisine, Nicotine Salts, and Vaping Cessation: Dual Trials from the New Zealand Frontier"
➡️Natalie Walker from
@aucklanduni.bsky.social
👉Register: bit.ly/TOPS-Summer2025

Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Tobacco Online Policy Seminar (TOPS). After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar.

The Tobacco Online Policy Seminar (TOPS) is a free multidisciplinary, international forum for research with tobacco policy implications using experimental or quasi-experimental study designs. THURSD...

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SRNT Policy and Regulatory Science Network @policysrnt.bsky.social · Apr 16

🗣️💬SUBMIT A PUBLIC COMMENT📝
The FDA is inviting the public to submit comments on the application for renewal of an existing modified risk tobacco product (MRTP) order for the IQOS 3.0 System Holder and Charger, a Heated Tobacco Product (HTP) 🔗Submit here: www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...

Modified Risk Tobacco Product Application: Renewal Application for IQOS 3.0 System Holder and Charger, Heated Tobacco Product, Submitted by Philip Morris Products S.A.

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA or Agency) is announcing an opportunity to provide public comment on a modified risk tobacco product application (MRTPA). The application is for renewal of an exi...

www.federalregister.gov

SRNT Policy and Regulatory Science Network @policysrnt.bsky.social · Apr 9

On Mar 12, Burkina Faso strengthened its fight against tobacco use by implementing a new decree.🛑The new measure requires cigarette packs to display graphic health warnings covering <80% of the package, alongside less attractive colors.
#TobaccoControl #PublicHealth #WestAfrica

Burkina Faso strengthens anti-tobacco measures with new decree - ACTA

BY: APA NEWS Burkina Faso has intensified its fight against tobacco use by issuing a decree to toughen the existing anti-tobacco law. The new regulations address tobacco packaging and labeling, aiming...

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SRNT Policy and Regulatory Science Network @policysrnt.bsky.social · Apr 3

📰Canada introduces 2 new policies to reduce tobacco use to <5% by 2035:
1️⃣New tobacco charges regulations will require tobacco companies - not taxpayers - to fund tobacco cessation efforts.
2️⃣$12M investment to support 8 substance use & addiction programs.
#TobaccoPolicy #HealthCanada

Government of Canada announces two initiatives to combat tobacco-related harms

Government of Canada announces the new Tobacco Charges Regulations

www.canada.ca

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Research Society on Marijuana @researchmj.bsky.social · Apr 2

Abstracts from our @policysrnt.bsky.social post-#SRNT2025 conference workshop on co-use of cannabis and nicotine/tobacco are now published in Cannabis. Thanks to special section editor @jamieparnes.bsky.social.

See you in Detroit for #RSMj2025!

publications.sciences.ucf.edu/cannabis/ind...

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Michael Businelle @stop-smoking.bsky.social · Mar 26

Build your own study smarphone app during this 3-day hands on workshop! Apply by April 21. Please re-post. #sbm2025
@casbsstanford.bsky.social @digital-health.bsky.social @policysrnt.bsky.social @cpddorg.bsky.social @theaacr.bsky.social @abctstudentsig.bsky.social @sbacon20.bsky.social

Michael Businelle @stop-smoking.bsky.social · Feb 3

Attend the 3rd annual 3-day Insight mHealth Workshop (June 25-27). Learn how to create Apple/Android mHealth/EMA/JITAI apps. Fee is only $500. Apply by April 21: healthpromotionresearch.org/Mobile-Healt...

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Tobacco Online Policy Seminar (TOPS) @tobaccopolicy.org · Mar 20

🚨TOMORROW🚨
➡️Friday 3/21 2pm ET
➡️"Estimating the Effect of E-cigarette Nicotine Limits on E-Cigarette and Cigarette Sales in Canada"
➡️ @davis-econ.bsky.social from
@mizzouecon.bsky.social
👉Register: bit.ly/TOPS-Winter2025

Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Tobacco Online Policy Seminar (TOPS). After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar.

The Tobacco Online Policy Seminar (TOPS) is a free multidisciplinary, international forum for research with tobacco policy implications using experimental or quasi-experimental study designs. Friday...

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SRNT Policy and Regulatory Science Network @policysrnt.bsky.social · Mar 13

If you're at #SRNT2025, join us tomorrow - March 14 from 12:15-1:15pm for an informal Bring Your Own Lunch meeting and network with other #tobacco #policy researchers!

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CAsToR TCORS @centertobacco.bsky.social · Mar 4

CAsToR is hosting an online training on March 20, “Systematic reviews and other types of evidence synthesis in TRS: a primer,” facilitated by Drs. Jamie Hartmann-Boyce @jhb19.bsky.social and Jonathan Livingstone-Banks @jlivbanks.bsky.social Open to CTP-funded scientists. Register: myumi.ch/bE9xk

Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Systematic reviews and other types of evidence synthesis in tobacco regulatory science: a primer. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email a...

This event is hosted by the Center for the Assessment of Tobacco Regulations (CAsToR) Career Enhancement Core and facilitated by CAsToR investigators, Dr. Jamie Hartmann-Boyce and Dr. Jonathan Livings...

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SRNT Policy and Regulatory Science Network @policysrnt.bsky.social · Mar 7

Attending #SRNT2025? Join us on Wed 3/12 from 9AM-12PM for the #pre-conference workshop: "Leveraging Complex Survey Data to Inform Nicotine and Tobacco Regulatory Science Globally." We'll share best practices/insights on leveraging survey data to inform #tobacco & #nicotine #policy research.

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Tobacco Online Policy Seminar (TOPS) @tobaccopolicy.org · Mar 6

🚨TOMORROW🚨
➡️Friday 3/7 2pm ET
➡️"Harm Reduction for Addictive Consumption: When Does it Improve Health and When Does it Backfire?"
➡️ @davidedragone.bsky.social from the University of Bologna
👉Register: bit.ly/TOPS-Winter2025

Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Tobacco Online Policy Seminar (TOPS). After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar.

The Tobacco Online Policy Seminar (TOPS) is a free multidisciplinary, international forum for research with tobacco policy implications using experimental or quasi-experimental study designs. Friday...

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