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Michael F. Pesko 🇺🇸 🇺🇦
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Michael F. Pesko 🇺🇸 🇺🇦
@mikepesko
@MizzouEcon Prof | Health Economist | PI @NIH lab on #tobacco & #audiology | Dir @TobPolicy | Fellow @IZA_bonn | Guiding impactful, high-quality research. 🧘⚾🎮
Katılım Ağustos 2013
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Renaming EVALI to reflect that nicotine e-cigs were not the cause remains critically important. I am hopeful that with @NIHDirector_Jay at the helm at @CDCgov, our 2021 petition signed by 75 experts will be given a second look and this scientific misclassification corrected.
Cliff Douglas@cdoug
An important letter from Dr. @mikepesko to the acting @CDCDirector requests a science-based, and long overdue, renaming of "EVALI" (E-cigarette, or Vaping, Product Use-Associated Lung Injury) because it wrongly associates illnesses and deaths that occurred in 2019-20 with nicotine vaping products: docs.google.com/document/d/15V… The actual cause had nothing to do with nicotine and was quickly found to be vitamin E acetate in illicit, adulterated THC vaping products. But "EVALI" was never changed. This seriously skewed risk perceptions of e-cigarettes compared to cigarettes, as we detailed in a peer-reviewed editorial detailing how the persistent use of the term "EVALI" constitutes public health misinformation that has reduced the use of e-cigarettes for smoking cessation, costing lives: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ad… Dr. Pesko's letter follows up on a 2021 petition to the CDC co-signed by 75 experts requesting that the agency reconsider the name. The Biden administration took no action - a major lost opportunity. This renewed effort offers the Trump administration a clear and simple opportunity to right this wrong.
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TOPS Summer 2026 seminar series is live. Excellent lineup covering flavored product restrictions, T21 impacts, ad bans, nicotine pouches, and policy equity. Fridays 2–3pm ET, starting May 15.
Free registration: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regist…
See many of you there!
Tobacco Online Policy Seminar (TOPS)@TobPolicy
Check out the Summer lineup! TOPS is back with more great #tobacco #policy #research on Friday 5/15 2PM ET, featuring Melanie Dove. TOPS is: ➡️Free 🥳 ➡️Open to all 🙂👋 👉Register: bit.ly/TOPS-Summer2026 👉Join our email list: tobaccopolicy.org/email
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Michael F. Pesko 🇺🇸 🇺🇦@mikepesko
For these reasons, 75 experts from across the world, including seven individuals who have served as president of the @srntorg, have formally asked the @CDCgov to change the name #EVALI, and this effort was endorsed by @AGIowa. Here is our letter: bit.ly/3GchUrV. 12/21
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@AJHE_journal @mikepesko @rachelylfung Nice work Pesko! Really interesting research question. Excited to read the full paper.
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Michael F. Pesko 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 retweetledi
New! Using 2010-21 national data, @mikepesko & @rachelylfung find no meaningful evidence that e-cigs crowd out NRT sales, cessation prescriptions, quitline calls,or smoking quit attempts, suggesting e-cigs reach smokers not interested in quitting otherwise.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/73…
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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.cf…
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Michael F. Pesko 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 retweetledi
Se viene tremendo seminario de economía con @mikepesko
Health Economist en @MizzouEcon
@NIH lab | Dir @TobPolicy | Fellow @IZA_bonn
Es parte de los seminarios permantentes de economía de @UnivMontevideo y son el edificio nuevo de la UM en el parque de innovación @LATU_uy
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@akoustov Is there a serious NIH- or NSF-funded researcher that is saying this? Most of the people whose replies I see in your thread are not researchers.
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@mikepesko Sir, have you ever been to Bsky? But you also have examples in this thread :)
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I see folks are pledging not to use AI in their writing. I pledge the opposite: I will use the latest LLMs, and for that matter any other tool, to best improve my research or the way I communicate it. That way, if my name is on it, you can be sure it reflects my own best judgment
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I recommend completing your taxes up to the point of submitting, then running through @ChatGPTapp. It saved me a few hundred dollars. You can buy a lot of beer with a few hundred dollars.
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@Brandon93Smith From Wisconsin originally. This seems perfectly reasonable to me.
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I don’t think most people understand how insane the drinking culture is in Wisconsin. A 15yo can legally drink a beer with his dad in a bar.
Men who drink 6 beers a night, every single night are legitimately considered moderate drinkers.
Disciple_Joz@Veritacchius
@WomanDefiner New map break
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Go to ChatGPT and use this prompt: Create a caricature of me and my job based on everything you know about me.
Come back and share your photo: I'll go first.😂
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Societies with generous social security net systems may survive (and thrive) in this new AI world, whereas countries without them may sputter.
thehill.com/opinion/financ…
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Tomorrow's front page of the Minnesota Star Tribune: Jan. 26, 2026
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Tomorrow's front page of the Minnesota Star Tribune: Jan. 25, 2026
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BREAKING: In a powerful moment, Charles Barkley just delivered a strong rebuke of what Donald Trump is doing to our country. Everyone needs to see this.
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BREAKING: Federal border agents appear to have killed a registered nurse in Minneapolis.
Alex Pretti dedicated his life to caring for others. Today, he is dead after being shot by agents after he was disarmed, despite having legally exercised his right to carry.
Watch the sequence. The facts matter.
This wasn’t self-defense.
This wasn’t a split-second mistake.
No amount of MAGA spin can explain away agents killing a man after removing his weapon. It was a grave abuse of power carried out under a Trump-led enforcement culture that treats civilians as enemies.
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