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Byron Awarded NIH grant to correct health misperceptions about nicotine

August 5, 2019
Justin Byron, PhD, MHS, an assistant professor in the department of family medicine, is the principal investigator on a new R21 $428,000 grant from the FDA and the National Cancer Institute.

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.

FDA should be equitable in proposed regulations on reducing nicotine in cigarettes

August 29, 2018
A commentary led by Family Medicine researcher M. Justin Byron, PhD suggests that a recent FDA policy proposal needs to include little cigars, which look and function like cigarettes, to be equitable and most effective.