Tobacco Online Policy Seminar (TOPS)
tobaccopolicy.org
Tobacco Online Policy Seminar (TOPS)
@tobaccopolicy.org
Virtual seminar series that features rigorously designed studies of #tobacco #policy. Sign up for our email list / submit papers: https://tobaccopolicy.org
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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-Winter2...
👉Join our email list: tobaccopolicy.org/email
🚨RESCHEDULED🚨
The TOPS presentation by Erin Eidschun scheduled for November 7 has been RESCHEDULED for April 10. TOPS will continue on November 21 with a presentation by Bingjin Xue, entitled "The Impact of E-Cigarette Regulations on Birth Outcomes".
👉Register: bit.ly/TOPS-Winter2026
November 6, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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-Winter2...
👉Join our email list: tobaccopolicy.org/email
November 3, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Check out the TOPS website for the slides 📊 and paper 📰 from last week's presentation by Jamie Hartmann-Boyce on "Oral nicotine pouches for smoking cessation: the latest Cochrane evidence".
October 27, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Thank you ⭐️@jhb19.bsky.social⭐️ for an excellent TOPS presentation today and to our audience of over 220! 🥳 Here are key takeaways from her presentation on "Oral nicotine pouches for smoking cessation: the latest Cochrane evidence".
October 24, 2025 at 8:29 PM
🚨TOMORROW🚨
➡️Friday, October 24 2pm ET (New York)
➡️"Oral nicotine pouches and electronic cigarettes for smoking cessation: the latest Cochrane evidence"
➡️ @jhb19.bsky.social from @umassamherst.bsky.social
👉Register: bit.ly/TOPS-Winter2026
October 23, 2025 at 4:47 PM
🚨Next TOPS🚨
➡️Friday, October 24 2pm ET (New York)
➡️"Oral nicotine pouches and electronic cigarettes for smoking cessation: the latest Cochrane evidence"
➡️ @jhb19.bsky.social from
@umassamherst.bsky.social

👉Register: bit.ly/TOPS-Winter2026
Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Tobacco Online Policy Seminar (TOPS). After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar.
The Tobacco Online Policy Seminar (TOPS) is a free multidisciplinary, international forum for research with tobacco policy implications using experimental or quasi-experimental study designs. All 2-...
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October 16, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Check out the ❄️Winter❄️ series lineup! TOPS is back with more great tobacco policy research on Friday 10/24 2PM ET, featuring Jamie Hartmann-Boyce.
TOPS is:
➡️ Free 🥳
➡️ Open to all 👋
👉 Register: bit.ly/TOPS-Winter2026
👉 Join our email list: tobaccopolicy.org/email
October 13, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Check out the TOPS website for the slides 📊 and video recording 📹 from last week's presentation by Rachel Fung on "Historical Cigarette Prohibition, Cigarette Use, and Mortality". www.tobaccopolicy.org/seminars.html
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September 23, 2025 at 8:46 PM
🚨LAST CALL: Submit your abstract for the next season of TOPS by **TONIGHT at 11:59pm!**🚨
🧪 Share your experimental or quasi-experimental tobacco policy research
📄 In-progress or newly published work welcome
✍️ Submit or nominate here: www.tobaccopolicy.org/call.html
Call for Papers / Nominations
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September 22, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Thank you @rachelylfung.bsky.social for an excellent TOPS presentation today! 🥳Here are key takeaways from her presentation on "Historical Cigarette Prohibition, Cigarette Use, and Mortality".
September 19, 2025 at 9:02 PM
🚨TOMORROW🚨
➡️Friday, September 19 2pm ET
➡️"Historical Cigarette Prohibition, Cigarette Use, and Mortality"
➡️@rachelylfung.bsky.social from @mizzouecon.bsky.social
👉Register: bit.ly/TOPS-Summer2025
Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Tobacco Online Policy Seminar (TOPS). After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar.
The Tobacco Online Policy Seminar (TOPS) is a free multidisciplinary, international forum for research with tobacco policy implications using experimental or quasi-experimental study designs. All 2-...
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September 18, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Submit or nominate TOPS-notch research for next season's lineup! TOPS offers presenters:
✅quasi- & experimental tobacco policy research OK
👉exposure among a diverse global audience
👉helpful feedback from audience comments
🗓️Deadline: 9/22
✏️Submit: tobaccopolicy.org/call.html
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September 16, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Research Update! 📰 Congratulations to @anne-m-burton.bsky.social for recently publishing "The Impact of Smoking Bans in Bars on Alcohol Consumption and Smoking" previously presented at TOPS! 🥳Check out the paper here: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1...
The Impact of Smoking Bans in Bars on Alcohol Consumption and Smoking | The Journal of Law and Economics: Vol 68, No 1
Abstract Governments implemented smoking bans in bars to target smoking-related externalities, but these bans may also affect drinking. This paper studies smoking bans’ effects on alcohol consumption ...
www.journals.uchicago.edu
September 11, 2025 at 8:03 PM
🚨Next TOPS🚨
➡️Friday, September 19 2pm ET
➡️"Historical Cigarette Prohibition, Cigarette Use, and Mortality"
➡️ @rachelylfung.bsky.social from @mizzouecon.bsky.social
👉Register: bit.ly/TOPS-Summer2025
Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Tobacco Online Policy Seminar (TOPS). After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar.
The Tobacco Online Policy Seminar (TOPS) is a free multidisciplinary, international forum for research with tobacco policy implications using experimental or quasi-experimental study designs. All 2-...
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September 10, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Check out the TOPS website for the slides 📊 and video recording 📹 from last week's presentation by Orestis Efthimiou on "Personalized counselling on the use of e-cigarettes to achieve tobacco abstinence: secondary analysis of data from a RCT".
September 8, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Thank you 🌟Orestis Efthimiou🌟for an excellent TOPS presentation today! 🎉 Here are key takeaways from his presentation on "Personalized counselling on the use of e-cigarettes to achieve tobacco abstinence: secondary analysis of data from a RCT".
September 5, 2025 at 7:51 PM
🚨TOMORROW🚨
➡️Friday, September 5 2pm ET
➡️"Personalized counselling on the use of e-cigarettes to achieve tobacco abstinence: secondary analysis of data from a RCT"
➡️@oremiou.bsky.social from the University of Bern
👉Register: bit.ly/TOPS-Summer2025
Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Tobacco Online Policy Seminar (TOPS). After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar.
The Tobacco Online Policy Seminar (TOPS) is a free multidisciplinary, international forum for research with tobacco policy implications using experimental or quasi-experimental study designs. All 2-...
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September 4, 2025 at 8:18 PM
🎉The Tobacco Online Policy Seminar turns 5 today! 🎉

Since 2020, TOPS has provided a free, international forum for sharing cutting-edge research on tobacco policy, uniting academics, policymakers & advocates to break silos and improve population health.

Thank you for 5 years of learning together! 🙌
September 4, 2025 at 2:54 PM
🚨Next TOPS🚨
➡️Friday, September 5 2pm ET
➡️"Personalized counselling on the use of e-cigarettes to achieve tobacco abstinence: secondary analysis of data from a RCT"
➡️Orestis Efthimiou from the University of Bern
👉Register: bit.ly/TOPS-Summer2025
Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Tobacco Online Policy Seminar (TOPS). After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar.
The Tobacco Online Policy Seminar (TOPS) is a free multidisciplinary, international forum for research with tobacco policy implications using experimental or quasi-experimental study designs. All 2-...
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August 27, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Thank you @justinwhite.bsky.social for an excellent TOPS presentation Today! 🥳 Here are key takeaways from his presentation on the "Effect of a minimum floor price law for tobacco products on tobacco sales in Oakland, California".
August 22, 2025 at 8:02 PM
🚨TOMORROW🚨
➡️Friday, August 22 2pm ET
➡️"Effect of a minimum floor price law for tobacco products on tobacco sales in Oakland, California"
➡️ @justinwhite.bsky.social from @bostonu.bsky.social ky.social
👉Register: bit.ly/TOPS-Summer2025
Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Tobacco Online Policy Seminar (TOPS). After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar.
The Tobacco Online Policy Seminar (TOPS) is a free multidisciplinary, international forum for research with tobacco policy implications using experimental or quasi-experimental study designs. All 2-...
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August 21, 2025 at 5:04 PM
🚨Next TOPS🚨
➡️Friday, August 22 2pm ET
➡️"Effect of a minimum floor price law for tobacco products on tobacco sales in Oakland, California"
➡️ @justinwhite.bsky.social from @bostonu.bsky.social
👉Register: bit.ly/TOPS-Summer2025
August 13, 2025 at 5:35 PM
🚨CANCELED🚨
Unfortunately, the TOPS seminar scheduled for August 8th has been canceled. We will continue our Summer 2025 series on August 22nd.
August 6, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Research Update! 📰 Congratulations to ⭐️#ColinReinhardt⭐️ for recently publishing "Flavorants and addiction: An empirical analysis of cigarette bans and taxation" previously presented at TOPS! 🥳Check out the paper here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Flavorants and addiction: An empirical analysis of cigarette bans and taxation
We evaluate the proposed FDA menthol cigarette ban using aggregate-level retail data and micro-level household data. The model incorporates addiction …
www.sciencedirect.com
July 17, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Thank you ⭐️@jhb19.bsky.social⭐️ for an excellent TOPS presentation today! Here are key takeaways from her presentation on "Interventions for quitting vaping: Findings from a new Cochrane Living Systematic Review"
July 11, 2025 at 7:58 PM