- CAsToR announces online course: “Tobacco & Nicotine: Public Health, Science, Policy, and Law”
- POSTED: Thu May 25, 2023
- CAsToR is pleased to announce the launch of a Massive Open Online Course, “Tobacco & Nicotine: Public Health, Science, Policy, and Law” available now on Coursera. Hosted by lead instructor and CAsToR co-investigator Cliff Douglas of the University of Michigan School of Public Health, the course features 18 experts in a range of tobacco control areas and issues. Through a series of lectures, interviews, readings, and assessments, the course tells the story of smoking and tobacco and nicotine product use, focusing on the United States while also presenting important information and insights relating to the global epidemic and key examples of the experiences of, and actions taken by, other nations. This online, asynchronous, seven-module course is designed to be taken over a seven-week period but can be completed at your own pace. You can opt to earn a certificate via Coursera for $49, or you can audit the course free of charge.
- Learn more about the course and register here
- CAsToR e-Announcements (March 2023)
- POSTED: Fri Mar 31, 2023
- A bi-monthly e-newsletter of CAsToR highlights, events and more. Headlines: You’re invited! CAsToR Virtual Symposium; Announcement: New version of WMSM software released; Featured Junior Investigator Chris Cadham, MPH; Dr. Delvon Mattingly successfully defended his dissertation on February 25, 2023; CAsToR is pleased to announce the availability of scholarships for a short course on tobacco simulation modeling (EPID 730).
- Read the CAsToR e-Announcements (March 2023)
- CAsToR e-Announcements (AJPM Special Issue)
- POSTED: Tue Mar 21, 2023
- Patterns of Birth Cohort-Specific Smoking Histories by Sociodemographic Group in the U.S.: CAsToR is pleased to have contributed to the publication of this special issue with CAsToR investigators, also members of CISNET, leading the main articles. CAsToR will be using these new estimates in their assessments of the impact of tobacco regulations on smoking and downstream health effects.
- Read the CAsToR e-Announcements (AJPM Special Issue)
- UM study: E-cigarettes should be recommended more for smoking cessation
- POSTED: Thu Feb 23, 2023
Electronic cigarettes should be recommended more widely for helping some adults stop smoking tobacco, according to a new University of Michigan study. “Far too many adults who want to quit smoking are unable to do so,” said (TCORS 2.0 Co-Investigator) Kenneth Warner, dean emeritus of the School of Public Health. “E-cigarettes constitute the first new tool to help them in decades. Yet relatively few smokers and indeed health care professionals appreciate their potential value.”
- Read the full story at the Detroit News
- Read “Nicotine e-cigarettes as a tool for smoking cessation” at Nature Medicine
- CAsToR e-Announcements (January 2023)
- POSTED: Thu Jan 12, 2023
- CAsToR Pilot Project Lightning Talk Sessions; Featured publication: “The actual and anticipated effects of restrictions on flavoured electronic nicotine delivery systems: a scoping review”, in the BMC Public Health Journal; New intersectionality tool; CAsToR Investigator, Cliff Douglas discusses the recent New Zealand ban on cigarette sales in the Wall Street Journal, December 2022; Featured CAsToR New Investigator Mona Issabakshs PhD, MS discusses her academic and career journey in mathematical modeling and computer simulation.
- Read the CAsToR e-Announcements (January 2023)
- New Zealand Bans Cigarette Sales for Everyone Born After 2008
- POSTED: Mon Dec 19, 2022
New Zealand is “engaged in an extraordinarily important natural experiment to see if these significant policy approaches, which have not been implemented elsewhere, succeed in driving down cigarette smoking, as many experts think they’re likely to do,” said Clifford Douglas, director of the Tobacco Research Network at the University of Michigan School of Public Health.Thousands of people will live longer, healthier lives as a result of the legislation, New Zealand’s Associate Health Minister Ayesha Verrall said. She added that the country’s health system would save billions of dollars from the treatment of smoking-related illnesses.
- Read the full story at the Wall Street Journal
- CAsToR e-Announcements (November 2022)
- POSTED: Fri Nov 18, 2022
- A bi-monthly e-newsletter of CAsToR highlights, events and more. Headlines: CAsToR is pleased to host former Director of the Center for Tobacco Products under the Food and Drug Administration, Mr. Mitch Zeller, Thursday, September 29, 2022; Dr. David Mendez was featured in USA TODAY, August 3, 2022, discussing the impact of menthol cigarettes on the Black population.; Longitudinal Associations Between Exclusive and Dual Use of Electronic Nicotine Delivery Systems and Cigarettes and Self-Reported Incident Diagnosed Cardiovascular Disease Among Adults
- Read the CAsToR e-Announcements (November 2022)
- CAsToR e-Announcements (September 2022)
- POSTED: Fri Sep 09, 2022
- A bi-monthly e-newsletter of CAsToR highlights, events and more. Headlines: CAsToR is pleased to host former Director of the Center for Tobacco Products under the Food and Drug Administration, Mr. Mitch Zeller, Thursday, September 29, 2022; Dr. David Mendez was featured in USA TODAY, August 3, 2022, discussing the impact of menthol cigarettes on the Black population.; Longitudinal Associations Between Exclusive and Dual Use of Electronic Nicotine Delivery Systems and Cigarettes and Self-Reported Incident Diagnosed Cardiovascular Disease Among Adults
- Read the CAsToR e-Announcements (September 2022)
- “Targeted menthol cigarette ads helped lead to high Black usage. Should they be banned?”
- POSTED: Mon Aug 08, 2022
David Mendez, a lead author of the Michigan study and a health management and policy professor at the university, said menthol cigarettes reduce the irritation and harshness of smoking through their smooth, minty flavor profile. Because the cigarette user does not cough or feel the less healthy aspects of smoking, they are less inclined to quit, he said. Menthol also works with nicotine to enhance nicotine's addictive effects. Banning menthol will save thousands of lives, Mendez said. “This is the closest we have been,“ Mendez said of the proposed prohibition.
- Read the full story at Yahoo! News



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