Lauren Pacek
@lrpacek.bsky.social
Assistant Prof at Rutgers Institute for Nicotine & Tobacco Studies | Epidemiologist, house plant enthusiast, gardener | Research interests: tob reg sci, medication adherence, vulnerable populations, dual/poly tobacco use | Opinions my own
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On the ballot today:
-NYC: Mayor
-Minneapolis: Mayor
-VA: Governor, Lt. Governor, AG, and state House
-NJ: Governor
-PA: State Supreme Court
-GA: Public Service Commission
-TX: TX-18 U.S. House
-CA: Prop 50
This is a reminder of how crucial it is to vote up AND down the ballot.
-NYC: Mayor
-Minneapolis: Mayor
-VA: Governor, Lt. Governor, AG, and state House
-NJ: Governor
-PA: State Supreme Court
-GA: Public Service Commission
-TX: TX-18 U.S. House
-CA: Prop 50
This is a reminder of how crucial it is to vote up AND down the ballot.
November 4, 2025 at 6:03 PM
On the ballot today:
-NYC: Mayor
-Minneapolis: Mayor
-VA: Governor, Lt. Governor, AG, and state House
-NJ: Governor
-PA: State Supreme Court
-GA: Public Service Commission
-TX: TX-18 U.S. House
-CA: Prop 50
This is a reminder of how crucial it is to vote up AND down the ballot.
-NYC: Mayor
-Minneapolis: Mayor
-VA: Governor, Lt. Governor, AG, and state House
-NJ: Governor
-PA: State Supreme Court
-GA: Public Service Commission
-TX: TX-18 U.S. House
-CA: Prop 50
This is a reminder of how crucial it is to vote up AND down the ballot.
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INTS core faculty member and assistant professor, Lauren Pacek, will discuss tobacco use and cessation and harm reduction strategies among people with HIV in the USA in the webinar hosted by the AETC Program on November 5, 11 am ET.
Register here ➡️
www.e2neca.org/org/AETC/Por...
Register here ➡️
www.e2neca.org/org/AETC/Por...
November 3, 2025 at 8:28 PM
INTS core faculty member and assistant professor, Lauren Pacek, will discuss tobacco use and cessation and harm reduction strategies among people with HIV in the USA in the webinar hosted by the AETC Program on November 5, 11 am ET.
Register here ➡️
www.e2neca.org/org/AETC/Por...
Register here ➡️
www.e2neca.org/org/AETC/Por...
New @ntrjournal.bsky.social pub from @joemcclernon.bsky.social @otg2014.bsky.social @danarubenstein.bsky.social Patrick Barnwell & me
We identified 2 latent classes of dual cig/ENDS users based on motivations for ENDS use, w/ implications for research, treatment, & regulation
tinyurl.com/bddvdn4a
We identified 2 latent classes of dual cig/ENDS users based on motivations for ENDS use, w/ implications for research, treatment, & regulation
tinyurl.com/bddvdn4a
Identifying latent classes of dual cigarette/ENDS users based on motivations for ENDS use: Product substitution versus complementary use
AbstractIntroduction. The aim of this study was to empirically identify subgroups of dual cigarette and ENDS product users based on their motivations for E
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September 10, 2025 at 8:52 PM
New @ntrjournal.bsky.social pub from @joemcclernon.bsky.social @otg2014.bsky.social @danarubenstein.bsky.social Patrick Barnwell & me
We identified 2 latent classes of dual cig/ENDS users based on motivations for ENDS use, w/ implications for research, treatment, & regulation
tinyurl.com/bddvdn4a
We identified 2 latent classes of dual cig/ENDS users based on motivations for ENDS use, w/ implications for research, treatment, & regulation
tinyurl.com/bddvdn4a
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BREAKING—22 states sue to block Trump administration cuts to NIH research payments. Attorneys general seek court order to halt 15% cap on research overhead costs
www.statnews.com/2025/02/10/n...
www.statnews.com/2025/02/10/n...
22 states sue to block Trump administration cuts to NIH research payments
Attorneys general sued the Trump administration to block a NIH decision that would slash grant payments for research overhead
www.statnews.com
February 10, 2025 at 5:35 PM
BREAKING—22 states sue to block Trump administration cuts to NIH research payments. Attorneys general seek court order to halt 15% cap on research overhead costs
www.statnews.com/2025/02/10/n...
www.statnews.com/2025/02/10/n...
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INTS post-doctoral fellow Charity Ntansah and associate professor Kymberle Sterling are authors on a new @ntrjournal.bsky.social paper that uses a discrete choice experiment to explore the impact of reduced nicotine messages among people who use little cigars and cigarillos.
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Assessing the impact of messages about reduced nicotine cigar products among people who use little cigar and cigarillo: Insights from a discrete choice experiment
AbstractIntroduction. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) pursuit of a low nicotine standard for cigarettes raises concerns that a focus on cigar
ow.ly
February 6, 2025 at 7:03 PM
INTS post-doctoral fellow Charity Ntansah and associate professor Kymberle Sterling are authors on a new @ntrjournal.bsky.social paper that uses a discrete choice experiment to explore the impact of reduced nicotine messages among people who use little cigars and cigarillos.
ow.ly/NpJs50UTzWg
ow.ly/NpJs50UTzWg
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Wish I knew somebody who was in one of the two halls of Congress right now.
Congress must take action to restore the rule of law.
February 4, 2025 at 12:30 AM
Wish I knew somebody who was in one of the two halls of Congress right now.
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🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.
February 4, 2025 at 11:02 PM
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Anyway, how’s everyone doing?
Anyway, how’s everyone doing?
February 3, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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Anyway, how’s everyone doing?
Anyway, how’s everyone doing?
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No one should comply with this order. It is censorship. #Trump is a tin-pot dictator and this is garbage. insidemedicine.substack.com/p/breaking-n...
BREAKING NEWS: CDC orders mass retraction and revision of submitted research across all science and medicine journals. Banned terms must be scrubbed.
Any unpublished manuscript mentioning certain topics, including gender and "LGBT," must be pulled or revised.
insidemedicine.substack.com
February 1, 2025 at 9:58 PM
No one should comply with this order. It is censorship. #Trump is a tin-pot dictator and this is garbage. insidemedicine.substack.com/p/breaking-n...
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Everyone concerned about data loss right now should learn about the End of Term Web Archive, which I believe has been working on preserving federal websites for the past 8 months. The dataset you fear has been lost may well be here
Just an incredible project. Thank you to everyone involved
Just an incredible project. Thank you to everyone involved
How to Access the EOT Web Archives
Visit web.archive.org
Scroll to 🔎Collection Search section
Select "End Of Term (US Gov 2024)" from the menu
Type in your query term and click search
Or download bulk WARC files from eotarchive.org/data/
#EOT2024 #EOTArchive
Visit web.archive.org
Scroll to 🔎Collection Search section
Select "End Of Term (US Gov 2024)" from the menu
Type in your query term and click search
Or download bulk WARC files from eotarchive.org/data/
#EOT2024 #EOTArchive
February 1, 2025 at 3:14 AM
Everyone concerned about data loss right now should learn about the End of Term Web Archive, which I believe has been working on preserving federal websites for the past 8 months. The dataset you fear has been lost may well be here
Just an incredible project. Thank you to everyone involved
Just an incredible project. Thank you to everyone involved
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Are you a Black scholar interested in a postdoc focused on addiction, substance use, and/or LGBTQ+ wellbeing? Want to live in Toronto? Check out this fellowship and send me a message!
www.torontomu.ca/graduate/pos...
www.torontomu.ca/graduate/pos...
Postdoctoral Fellowships for Black Scholars
www.torontomu.ca
January 31, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Are you a Black scholar interested in a postdoc focused on addiction, substance use, and/or LGBTQ+ wellbeing? Want to live in Toronto? Check out this fellowship and send me a message!
www.torontomu.ca/graduate/pos...
www.torontomu.ca/graduate/pos...
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Sometimes I let the void scream back at me just as a little treat
January 30, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Sometimes I let the void scream back at me just as a little treat
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I just reached out to my senators about the NIH situation. If you need to find out how much impact NIH has in your state in terms of dollars in and their economic impact here's a link: www.unitedformedicalresearch.org/nih-in-your-...
NIH In Your State - United For Medical Research
Select a state on the map to see the impact of NIH funding across America.
www.unitedformedicalresearch.org
January 22, 2025 at 9:34 PM
I just reached out to my senators about the NIH situation. If you need to find out how much impact NIH has in your state in terms of dollars in and their economic impact here's a link: www.unitedformedicalresearch.org/nih-in-your-...
Why can't we have nice things?
Alcohol is a leading cause of cancer and drinks should carry a warning label as cigarettes do, the U.S. surgeon general, Dr. Vivek Murthy, said Friday. His report cites studies linking alcoholic drinks to at least seven malignancies. But to add labels, Congress would have to act. nyti.ms/3BVTmHe
January 3, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Why can't we have nice things?
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Viewpoint: Implementation of a low-nicotine product standard has the potential to be the most significant tobacco control policy of the 21st century.
https://ja.ma/3OKcb2X
https://ja.ma/3OKcb2X
December 9, 2024 at 8:00 PM
Viewpoint: Implementation of a low-nicotine product standard has the potential to be the most significant tobacco control policy of the 21st century.
https://ja.ma/3OKcb2X
https://ja.ma/3OKcb2X
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Viewpoint: Implementation of a low-nicotine product standard has the potential to be the most significant tobacco control policy of the 21st century.
https://ja.ma/3OKcb2X
https://ja.ma/3OKcb2X
December 9, 2024 at 9:22 PM
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Our new Viewpoint in @jama.com with @maryhrywna.bsky.social revisits lessons learned for e-cigarettes and calls on @fda.gov to make PMTA decisions on Nicotine Pouches jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
Nicotine Pouches in Need of FDA Regulation
This JAMA Viewpoint investigates the rising popularity of nicotine pouches, especially among youths, and how the US Food and Drug Administration must act quickly to regulate these products and curb ma...
jamanetwork.com
December 9, 2024 at 4:36 PM
Our new Viewpoint in @jama.com with @maryhrywna.bsky.social revisits lessons learned for e-cigarettes and calls on @fda.gov to make PMTA decisions on Nicotine Pouches jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
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Two stages of writing:
1) This shouldn't take too long
2) Oh no
1) This shouldn't take too long
2) Oh no
December 4, 2024 at 7:36 PM
Two stages of writing:
1) This shouldn't take too long
2) Oh no
1) This shouldn't take too long
2) Oh no