Webinar: The Future of Tobacco Control: Current Research on Potentially Transformative Policies

April 24, 2025

12:00-1:00 pm

The FDA has broad authority to enact potentially transformative tobacco control policies, including banning menthol flavoring in cigarettes and reducing the allowable level of nicotine in cigarettes. This webinar will give an overview of the rationale, evidence base, and status of these policies as they relate to preventing youth tobacco use.

Speaker Bio: Rachel Cassidy is an Associate Professor at Brown University’s Center for Alcohol and Addiction Studies and Vice Chair of the Behavioral and Social Sciences Department in the School of Public Health. She earned her doctoral degree from the University of Florida in Psychology, and did her postdoctoral training in substance use at Brown University. She has been a faculty member at Brown since 2014, and her work has been continuously funded by NIH since that time. Her work is focused on adolescent cigarette smoking and the potential for tobacco regulatory policy to impact youth tobacco product use, and the application of behavioral economic methods to understanding cigarette and e-cigarette use.

This webinar is hosted by the New England Prevention Technology Transfer Center, a program funded through cooperative agreement with SAMHSA. This webinar has been planned to address an identified need for training on tobacco for the New England prevention workforce. This webinar has been pre-approved for 1.0 contact hour by the Maine Prevention Certification Board, an IC&RC member board. Participants will receive a certificate for 1 contact hour, no partial credit will be awarded. For any questions about this training, please contact Kristen Erickson, kerickson@ccsme.org.

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