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🚨Next TOPS🚨 ➡️Friday, March 27 2pm ET (New York Time) ➡️"The impact of school closure during COVID-19 on substance use" ➡️@iataur from @MizzouEcon 👉Register: bit.ly/TOPS-Winter2026

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".

🚨TOMORROW🚨 ➡️Friday, March 13 2pm ET (New York Time) ➡️“Effect of tobacco sales bans in Beverly Hills & Manhattan Beach, California” ➡️Nita Mukand from @UCSF_Epibiostat 👉Register: bit.ly/TOPS-Winter2026

🚨Next TOPS🚨 ➡️Friday, March 13 2pm ET (New York Time) ➡️"Effect of tobacco sales bans on retail sales in Beverly Hills and Manhattan Beach, California" ➡️Nita Mukand from @UCSF_Epibiostat 👉Register: bit.ly/TOPS-Winter2026

🚨TOMORROW🚨 ➡️Friday, February 27 2pm ET (New York Time) ➡️“A systematic review of stated preference experiments in tobacco research” ➡️Shiqi Zhang from @OSU_AEDE 👉Register: bit.ly/TOPS-Winter2026

🚨Next TOPS🚨 ➡️Friday, February 27 2pm ET (New York Time) ➡️"A systematic review of stated preference experiments in tobacco research" ➡️Shiqi Zhang from The @OSU_AEDE 👉Register: bit.ly/TOPS-Winter2026

🚨TOMORROW🚨 ➡️Friday, February 6 2pm ET (New York Time) ➡️“Impact of E-cigarette Taxation on Retail Prices and Sales Volume” ➡️Norah Almulhem from @UConnCAHNR 👉Register: bit.ly/TOPS-Winter2026

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

🚨Next TOPS🚨 ➡️Friday, February 6 2pm ET (New York Time) ➡️"Impact of E-cigarette Taxation on Retail Prices and Sales Volume" ➡️Norah Almulhem from @UConnCAHNR 👉Register: bit.ly/TOPS-Winter2026

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…

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: #carroll" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">tobaccopolicy.org/seminars.html#…

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".

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".

🚨TOMORROW🚨 ➡️Friday, January 23 2pm ET (New York Time) ➡️"Standardizing the Measurement of Cigar Tax Rates in the United States" ➡️Guthrie Scoblic from @MizzouEcon 👉Register: bit.ly/TOPS-Winter2026

🚨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.cf…