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Goldstein, Ranney find daily emails about chemicals in tobacco lead some smokers to consider quitting

March 12, 2021
Family Medicine researchers Adam Goldstein and Leah Ranney recently published their findings in JAMA Network Open.

Family Medicine researchers receive new funding to develop first-of-its-kind health messaging on co-use of alcohol and tobacco products

September 22, 2020
A team of researchers from the UNC School of Medicine Department of Family Medicine and Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center have received new funding to develop and test messaging to co-users of alcohol and tobacco products on the risk of associated cancers.

E-cigarette flavors decrease perception of harm among youth

October 25, 2019
Led by UNC Family Medicine and UNC Lineberger researchers, a systematic review of scientific literature revealed the role flavored e-cigarettes have on product preference, appeal, harm perceptions, willingness to use, and initiation among youth.

Do high e-cigarette taxes drive Indonesian vapers to smoke conventional cigarettes?

February 8, 2019
Justin Byron, PhD, MHS is the principal investigator on a grant from the Bloomberg Foundation and the Johns Hopkins Institute for Global Tobacco Control to examine whether a new 57% tax on e-cigarette liquids in Indonesia is driving vapers back to deadly conventional cigarettes.

Many doctors concerned about physician involvement in concealed-weapon permit process

June 27, 2014
“This is not a small problem,” said Dr. Adam Goldstein, corresponding author of the study and a professor in the Department of Family Medicine at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine. “More than 20 percent of the physicians we surveyed have been asked to sign competency permits for...

Should doctors be involved in the concealed-weapons permit process?

April 25, 2013
UNC’s Dr. Adam Goldstein and colleagues discuss in the New England Journal of Medicine medical, ethical, and legal concerns about physician involvement in concealed weapons permits. They argue that standards, protocols and new policies are needed for physicians to adequately assess a patient’s physical or mental competency in concealed-weapons permitting....