Good morning. We’ve learned that RIF notices went out by branch overnight—timed for maximum cruelty. We’ll share info and resources throughout the day. To those affected: We’re so sorry. This is a deep personal loss and a loss for everyone you keep safe and healthy through your work. 💚

The FDA's chief tobacco regulator, Brian King was placed on administrative leave today and the entire office responsible for drafting new tobacco regulations was fired. The assault on science and health continues. apnews.com/article/fda-...

NPRM for proposed #FDA "Tobacco Product Standard for Nicotine Yield of Cigarettes and Certain Other Combusted Tobacco Products" will publish tomorrow. This is a huge deal. Researchers, get your public comments ready... www.federalregister.gov/public-inspe...

Our #Tobacco21 project was years in the making and I'm thrilled to finally see it out! Big Thank you to our partners at at PTAF / tobacco21, the whole team at CISNET and our friends at Cornerstone who made this gorgeous website to accompany the paper! Explore T21 effects at tobaccopolicyeffects.org

Tobacco 21 laws in the US will prevent 526K premature deaths, resulting in 13.3 million life-years gains, but with large variations in impact across US States. Great work by CAsToR investigators @jamietam.bsky.social, Friedman, Meza and Jeon and the CISNET Lung Team: jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Please tobacco control community! please repost the JAMA post below! trying to demonstrate to our university leadership the value of adding a @bsky.app "share buttons" on university science press releases!

#TobRegSky #PedSky #MedSky #EpiSky #addictionsci #policysky #polisky 🧪🛟 The Surgeon General's Report: Eliminating Tobacco-Related Disease and Death: Addressing Disparities is out !! So honored to work on this with outstanding CDC leaders, editors and co-authors. www.cdc.gov/tobacco-surg...