Michael F. Pesko 🇺🇸 🇺🇦

@MizzouEcon Prof | Health Economist | PI @NIH lab on #tobacco & #audiology | Dir @TobPolicy | Fellow @IZA_bonn | Guiding impactful, high-quality research. 🧘⚾🎮

[Michael F. Pesko 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @mikepesko]

Great program for motivated researchers that could benefit from easier, structured opportunities to discuss early-stage research.

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[Michael F. Pesko 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @mikepesko]

@imaracingmom @NIHDirector_Jay @CDCgov No response yet.

[Michael F. Pesko 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @mikepesko]

Renaming EVALI to reflect that nicotine e-cigs were not the cause remains critically important. I am hopeful that with @NIHDirector_Jay at the helm at @CDCgov, our 2021 petition signed by 75 experts will be given a second look and this scientific misclassification corrected.

[Cliff Douglas @cdoug]

An important letter from Dr. @mikepesko to the acting @CDCDirector requests a science-based, and long overdue, renaming of "EVALI" (E-cigarette, or Vaping, Product Use-Associated Lung Injury) because it wrongly associates illnesses and deaths that occurred in 2019-20 with nicotine vaping products: https://t.co/zdlJW5FaC2

The actual cause had nothing to do with nicotine and was quickly found to be vitamin E acetate in illicit, adulterated THC vaping products. But "EVALI" was never changed. This seriously skewed risk perceptions of e-cigarettes compared to cigarettes, as we detailed in a peer-reviewed editorial detailing how the persistent use of the term "EVALI" constitutes public health misinformation that has reduced the use of e-cigarettes for smoking cessation, costing lives: https://t.co/pMjhwf7Eq8

Dr. Pesko's letter follows up on a 2021 petition to the CDC co-signed by 75 experts requesting that the agency reconsider the name. The Biden administration took no action - a major lost opportunity. This renewed effort offers the Trump administration a clear and simple opportunity to right this wrong.

[Michael F. Pesko 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @mikepesko]

TOPS Summer 2026 seminar series is live. Excellent lineup covering flavored product restrictions, T21 impacts, ad bans, nicotine pouches, and policy equity. Fridays 2–3pm ET, starting May 15.

Free registration: https://t.co/HrLeD3XuoS

See many of you there!

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[Michael F. Pesko 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @mikepesko]

@NIHDirector_Jay @CDCgov The 2021 EVALI post: https://t.co/sgSfXhSbcP

[Michael F. Pesko 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @mikepesko]

For these reasons, 75 experts from across the world, including seven individuals who have served as president of the @srntorg, have formally asked the @CDCgov to change the name #EVALI, and this effort was endorsed by @AGIowa. Here is our letter: https://t.co/dVPqH77KNm. 12/21

[Michael F. Pesko 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @mikepesko]

@JTSemprini @AJHE_journal @rachelylfung Thank you; appreciated! See you soon at @ashecon .

[AJHE @AJHE_journal]

New! Using 2010-21 national data, @mikepesko & @rachelylfung find no meaningful evidence that e-cigs crowd out NRT sales, cessation prescriptions, quitline calls,or smoking quit attempts, suggesting e-cigs reach smokers not interested in quitting otherwise.https://t.co/9ES8rfdnsq

[Rachel Fung @rachelylfung]

New working paper out with @mikepesko and @LHoehnVelasco! We show that state cigarette prohibition laws in the late 18th to early 19th century delayed initiation into cigarette use among young men, and led to reductions in lifetime mortality.
Link: https://t.co/gDplewaTzb

[Alejandro Cid @AlejandroCid_uy]

Se viene tremendo seminario de economía con @mikepesko

Health Economist en @MizzouEcon
@NIH lab | Dir @TobPolicy | Fellow @IZA_bonn

Es parte de los seminarios permantentes de economía de @UnivMontevideo y son el edificio nuevo de la UM en el parque de innovación @LATU_uy

[Michael F. Pesko 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @mikepesko]

@akoustov Is there a serious NIH- or NSF-funded researcher that is saying this? Most of the people whose replies I see in your thread are not researchers.

[Michael F. Pesko 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @mikepesko]

I recommend completing your taxes up to the point of submitting, then running through @ChatGPTapp. It saved me a few hundred dollars. You can buy a lot of beer with a few hundred dollars.

[Michael F. Pesko 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @mikepesko]

@Brandon93Smith From Wisconsin originally. This seems perfectly reasonable to me.

[Michael F. Pesko 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @mikepesko]

@MrMekzy_

[Michael F. Pesko 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @mikepesko]

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[Michael F. Pesko 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @mikepesko]

Societies with generous social security net systems may survive (and thrive) in this new AI world, whereas countries without them may sputter.

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Overleaf killer.

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