August 15, 2024
Decoding anti-vaping campaigns
Seth Noar, PhD, and Sarah Kowitt, PhD, MPH, investigate the factors that make vaping prevention ads effective for adolescents and young adults.
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October 19, 2023
NIH and FDA award $18.6M to UNC Tobacco Center of Regulatory Science
UNC TCORS was launched at UNC Lineberger in 2013 and provides scientific studies that inform FDA’s regulatory authority for tobacco products.
October 9, 2023
Daily Tar Heel: UNC awarded $18 million grant from Food and Drug Administration for tobacco research
May 15, 2023
Study finds youth have misperceptions about synthetic nicotine in e-cigarettes
Seth Noar, PhD, Sarah Kowitt, PhD, MPH, and colleagues report in a study that there is widespread uncertainty and misperceptions about the sources of nicotine in e-cigarettes among youth.
August 6, 2020
Though concerned about COVID-19, cigar smokers are smoking more, survey finds
Published survey results from Sarah Kowitt, PhD, MPH, and Adam Goldstein, MD, MPH, found that more than twice as many cigar smokers reported increased tobacco use since the pandemic’s onset.
October 7, 2019
Goldstein to use $2.7M NCI grant to develop, test warnings for little cigars, cigarillos
The National Cancer Institute has awarded University of North Carolina Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center researcher Adam Goldstein, MD, MPH, a five-year, $2.7 million grant to develop more effective health warnings for little cigars and cigarillos. Nearly 12 million U.S. adults reported smoking cigars within a single month, according to 2016 national survey, and little cigars …
February 5, 2018
Adolescents not susceptible to cigarette smoking are using e-cigarettes
In a study led by UNC Lineberger's Adam Goldstein, MD, researchers found that efforts are needed to help youth remain nicotine free – especially those adolescents who aren’t otherwise susceptible to smoking cigarettes.