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Thank you 🌟Nita Mukand🌟for a superb TOPS presentation today and to our audience of over 135! 🥳 Here are key takeaways from her presentation on the "Effect of tobacco sales bans in Beverly Hills & Manhattan Beach, California".
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Check out the ❄️Winter❄️ lineup! TOPS will continue with more tobacco policy research on Friday 11/21 2pm ET, featuring Bingjin Xue. TOPS is: ➡️Free🥳 ➡️Open to all 🙂👋 👉Register: bit.ly/TOPS-Winter2026 👉Join our email list: tobaccopolicy.org/email
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SocialImpactLab retweeted
New working paper out with @mikepesko and @LHoehnVelasco! We show that state cigarette prohibition laws in the late 18th to early 19th century delayed initiation into cigarette use among young men, and led to reductions in lifetime mortality. Link: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.…
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Congratulations to Dr. Dana Mowls Carroll of @PublicHealthUMN for winning the 2025 Best Presentation Award (Top of the TOPS!) for her presentation on the public health implications of very low nicotine cigarettes. 🥳 Missed her presentation? It's available here: tobaccopolicy.org/seminars.h…
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Check out the TOPS website for the slides 📊 and video recording 🎥 from last week's presentation by Guthrie Scoblic on "Standardizing the Measurement of Cigar Tax Rates in the United States".
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Thank you 🌟Guthrie Scoblic🌟 for an excellent TOPS presentation!🥳 Here are key takeaways from his presentation on "Standardizing the Measurement of Cigar Tax Rates in the United States".
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SocialImpactLab retweeted
🚨New Working Paper🚨 We find that provincial e-cigarette flavor restrictions in Canada nearly eliminated flavored vape sales, increased tobacco/unflavored vape sales by 123%, and increased cigarette sales by 9.6%. 1/2 papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.…
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