Tag: Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco

  • Journal Plans Tobacco Transformation Issue

    Journal Plans Tobacco Transformation Issue

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    The Society for Research on Nicotine & Tobacco (SRNT) is calling for papers to publish in a special issue of its official journal, Nicontine & Tobacco Research, about the tobacco industry transformation.

    This themed issue will inform whether and how the tobacco control community should respond to and engage with the tobacco industry transformation narrative and with tobacco companies that claim to be transforming by moving away from producing and selling hazardous tobacco products.

    “Critically assessing the validity of the industry’s transformation narrative will be important as sections of the industry are likely to increasingly use this framing in order to position themselves as legitimate stakeholders in debates about how to end the smoking epidemic and the nature and direction of tobacco control policies,” the SRNT writes on its website.

    Nicotine & Tobacco Research says it will not consider for publication papers submitted by tobacco industry employees or affiliated organisations.

    The organization anticipates that the themed issue will publish in mid/late 2023.

  • Patricia Nez Henderson to Lead SRNT

    Patricia Nez Henderson to Lead SRNT

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    The Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco elected Patricia Nez Henderson as president, marking the first time that a Navajo American will serve as the leader of the organization, reports Law360.

    Henderson, an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation from Arizona and a graduate of the University of Arizona and Yale University School of Medicine, was recently elected to the head of the international association dedicated to supporting research and publications in the field of nicotine and tobacco. She is also the first Indigenous woman to graduate from Yale’s medical school with a Doctor of Medicine degree.

  • Journal to Examine Tobacco Industry Transformation

    Journal to Examine Tobacco Industry Transformation

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    Nicotine & Tobacco Research is calling for papers that examine the tobacco industry’s move from producing and selling hazardous tobacco products toward less-harmful alternatives.

    In recent years, an increasing number of tobacco companies have announced their intention to reduce their dependence on income from combustible tobacco products. Market leader Philip Morris International, for example, has since 2018 variously claimed to be building “a smokefree future,” and “unsmoking” the world.

    The journal is preparing a special themed issue that will examine whether a transformed tobacco industry is possible, what a transformed tobacco company would look like and whether there is evidence that the tobacco industry is transforming in any meaningful sense.

    Nicotine & Tobacco Research is inviting submission on papers exploring relevant issues, such as how progress toward industry transformation should be measured and the ethics of tobacco industry transformation.

    Manuscripts must be submitted through the journal’s submission system by March 1. 2022.

    Nicotine & Tobacco Research will not consider for publication papers submitted by tobacco industry employees or affiliated organizations, including organizations that themselves receive funding from or that are fully or partially owned by a tobacco company.

    Nicotine & Tobacco Research is sponsored by the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco. The journal expects to publish its themed in early 2023.

  • SRNT Urged to Undo Industry Exclusion

    SRNT Urged to Undo Industry Exclusion

    David O’Reilly (Photo: BAT)

    BAT has asked the board of directors of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco (SRNT) to reverse its decision to ban employees of the tobacco industry from attending the society’s annual conference in 2022.

    “We share in SRNT’s stated commitments to the open dissemination of rigorous, peer-reviewed nicotine and tobacco science, with the ultimate goal of reducing public health impact of tobacco use,” wrote BAT Director of Scientific Research David O’Reilly in a letter to the SRNT.

    “However, your recent exclusion of employees of the tobacco industry and the contributions of tobacco industry scientists to dialogue at the annual meeting is contrary to your code of conduct and guiding principles.”

    Exclusion, O’Reilly noted, impedes “the generation and dissemination of new knowledge concerning nicotine and tobacco.” “In an FDA-regulated market, the industry must routinely provide FDA regulators with scientific evidence about its products. As a result, some of the best science in the tobacco and nicotine space is being generated from tobacco companies,” he wrote.

    Exclusion also undercuts the SRNT’s commitment to “open science without bias,” “promoting scientific dialogue” and “empowering members to make their own informed decisions,” according to O’Reilly. “The board’s decision contradicts the evidence-based principles that underpin the U.S. policy approach, which prioritizes science, irrespective of the source,” O’Reilly wrote.

    “In light of our concerns, we respectfully request that the SRNT board reconsider its decision and reaffirm that ‘SRNT is committed to nicotine and tobacco researchers around the world.’”