I just made it through a hip resurfacing operation at NYC’s Hospital for Special Surgery. On the road to recovery and looking forward to a new journey

Heres a positive story www.nytimes.com/2025/09/10/m...

Register for the VIRTUAL Rutgers Tobacco Treatment Specialist Training October 20-21! Designed for social workers, nurses, psychologists, physicians, pharmacists, certified alcohol and drug counselors, health educators, and more ➡️ tobaccoprogram.org

Here’s a story on my latest paper on cigarette trafficking. The most common littered packs in NYC are menthol Newports from Georgia NYC-stamped packs came in 4th @RU-INTS.bsky.social @rutgerssph.bsky.social @rutgersarc.bsky.social gothamist.com/news/cigaret...

Here’s a story on my latest paper on cigarette trafficking. The most common littered packs in NYC are menthol Newports from Georgia NYC-stamped packs came in 4th @RU-INTS.bsky.social @rutgerssph.bsky.social @rutgersarc.bsky.social gothamist.com/news/cigaret...

I spoke on a panel at FDLI’s annual meeting with FDA, Truth, and Juul, and we found common ground on taking massive efforts to rein in and regulate the illicit e-cigarette market @ru-ints.bsky.social @rutgerssph.bsky.social @rutgersarc.bsky.social

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

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...

News on my latest paper describing how Attorneys General can use litigation to help achieve a regulated e-cigarette market @ru-ints.bsky.social @rutgerssph.bsky.social www.rutgers.edu/news/lawsuit...

Here's my latest paper on how Attorneys General can use litigation to rein in illicit flavored e-cigarettes. Written before the FDA's tobacco control capacity was decimated, this more important now than ever @ru-ints.bsky.social @rutgerssph.bsky.social tobaccocontrol.bmj.com

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-...

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

Here's my latest paper on how Attorneys General can use litigation to rein in illicit flavored e-cigarettes. Written before the FDA's tobacco control capacity was decimated, this more important now than ever @ru-ints.bsky.social @rutgerssph.bsky.social tobaccocontrol.bmj.com

That makes 5 of 18 Big Ten senates who've adopted MADCs: Rutgers Nebraska Indiana Michigan State Michigan And also UMass-Amherst. CUNY's Hunter College votes on Wednesday. Add YOUR faculty senate to the list, and DM me if I can help you with connections, advice, or anything! Share widely!!

As a member of Rutgers Senate, I'm proud of its leadership in creating and advocating for the Big Ten academic mutual defense compact

If there were a Dow Jones measuring federal public health, it would show we’re in dire straits. But since there’s not, and it doesn’t affect bank accounts in real time, it fades as new outrages take center stage. But the situation is still dire and will get worse quietly until the next crisis.

Trump has done the same damage to our health, environment and security as to our markets, it's just that there isn't a stock ticker that measures the impact so clearly

This exciting resolution from Rutgers University Senate is exactly the kind of model I think higher ed needs: a mutual defense pact of, in this case, Big 10 schools. They call for member institutions to create a joint defense fund and make resources available to any member institution under attack.

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

Trump and RFK Jr are cutting tobacco control professionals and gutting Congress' 2009 law to protect against death and disease caused by tobacco products. They are the April fools, but real Americans will suffer @rutgerssph.bsky.social apnews.com/article/fda-...

This is how it's done. A strong and principled response by WilmerHale to the illegal Executive Order attack - a form of attempted government intimidation declared unconstitutional by a federal judge. This is how to guard the rule of law.

If only Paul Weiss had considered this… www.politico.com/news/magazin...

Brazil’s top court is the envy of he US www.nytimes.com/2025/03/26/w...

Check out my interview on FDA’s decision to authorize he sale of ZYN nicotine pouches regulatorwatch.com/brent_staffo...

Australian newspaper "The Sun-Herald" opinion piece calls it out. American msm, take notes.

It’s sad on the eve of Presidents Day it’s appropriate to have to post this.

Don’t forget: It’s a convicted felon and litigated sexual assaulter whose company was found guilty of fraud and who was first elected to the White House with covert Moscow assistance who’s trying to destroy much of the federal government and impose authoritarian rule.

Juul wins lawsuit against Altria, on the grounds that NJOY ACE infringed Juul's intellectual property. Unless Altria can offer an agreeable financial settlement to Juul, they must stop importing NJOY ACE to USA within 60 days. news.bloomberglaw.com/ip-law/juul-...

“Trouble is in the land;…. But I know, somehow, that only when it is dark enough, can you see the stars.” MLK Jr.

Justice is coming... eventually. ⚖️ #MartinLutherKingDay2025

Canada, Greenland, Panama Canal…? Please. These are distractions. From what? How about efforts to stop Special Counsel report and criminal sentencing.

Viewpoint: Implementation of a low-nicotine product standard has the potential to be the most significant tobacco control policy of the 21st century. https://ja.ma/3OKcb2X

In a major win for public healh, SCOTUS rejects bid to challenge FDA’s graphic cigarette warnings, ending years of litigation www.cnn.com/2024/11/25/p...