Magdalena Walicka - Lectio Magistralis (smoking and diabetes)
2021-10-12 15:00 - 16:30 (Europe/Rome)
On Tuesday 12 October 2021 at 3pm in the Biological Tower of the University of Catania
a Lectio Magistralis will be held by Magdalena Walicka (Mossakowski Medical Research Centre of Warsaw, and Visiting Professor of the University) on this topic:

“Impact of smoking and smoking cessation on metabolic parameters in diabetes: a complex and confusing tale”

Moldavia: Conference presenting the DIASMOKE international project
2021-11-16 10:00 - 23:00
Meeting agenda:

Opening remarks and greetings. University introduction and main collaboration prospective

Prof. Emil CEBAN, rector of Nicolae Testemitanu University

Strategic priorities for research development within Nicolae Testemitanu University.

Academician Stanislav GROPPA, vice-rector for research activity

Tobacco harm reduction and possible health impact. Presentation of DIASMOKE international project.

Prof. dr. Riccardo POLOSA, University of Catania, Italy

Overview of the DIASMOKE study and its digital tools

Dr., associate professor, Lorina VUDU,

Overview of project coordination

Dr. John ISAAC, Iie ZABICA,
METANOIC HEALTH Ltd., United Kingdom

Closing remarks

Seminar: Living systematic review with Renèe O'Leary
2021-11-16 14:00 - 18:00
Tuesday 16 November at 14.00 CET a seminar on “Living systematic review: a new standard for medical research questions” will be held online on the ZOOM Platform direct by dr. Renèe O’Leary, project leader by In Silico Science.
Opening panelist:
prof. Riccardo Polosa, CoEHAR Founder and prof. Giovanni Li Volti, CoEHAR Director.
CoEHAR researchers will take part in the event, including Robin Varnooij (researcher of the In Silico Science project).
REGISTER BY 12 NOVEMBER

International Conference on Otorhinolaryngology with Riccardo Polosa
2021-11-22 08:00 - 2021-11-23 17:00
On behalf of the Organizing Committee, Scientex Conferences cordially invites you to participate in the
“International Conference on Otorhinolaryngology” during November 22-23, 2021 at Dubai, UAE.

The E-Cigarette Summit 2021
2021-12-07 09:00 - 2021-12-08 17:00
The UK E-Cigarette Summit which will take place virtually on 7-8 December 2021 and hope that the Virtual Summit will provide a welcoming focal point to grapple with the challenging questions posed by e-cigarettes and new novel nicotine products.
For decades, the known harms from smoking and combustible products has aligned public health and tobacco control communities to a common goal. However, the emergence of e-cigarettes and novel nicotine products has created clear divisions within the both the scientific and policy communities. At the same time governments have a pressing demand to interpret conflicting evidence in to appropriate legal and regulatory frameworks.
The E-Cigarette Summit has a single aim of facilitating respectful dialogue and thoughtful analysis from global experts to explore the evidence and discuss how this should be interpreted to deliver the most effective health strategies to reduce smoking related death and disease. We hope that you can join us in December.
To help with challenging schedules and different time zones, speaker presentations will be pre-recorded and available to view on the virtual platform from Tuesday 30 November (5pm GMT). You will have to have registered to gain access. The Summit and panel discussions will be streamed live on 7-8 December at the times listed below. All times are UK GMT.
To view the agenda please visiti the link
To register, visit the website: register

FDA Grand Rounds
2022-01-13
Development and Testing of Warnings for Tobacco Products: Scientific and Regulatory Considerations

TPE
2022-01-26 - 2022-01-28
TPE 2022 will be held at the Las Vegas Convention Center January 26-28, 2022 for 3 days of in-person business and networking.

Understanding Synthetic Nicotine: A Comprehensive Scientific and Legal Review
2022-02-09 20:00 - 21:30
Webinar
Understanding Synthetic Nicotine: A Comprehensive Scientific and Legal Review
The webinar will begin with a scientific review of synthetic nicotine, including how it is made, how testing can distinguish it from tobacco-derived nicotine, and whether it poses its own unique health concerns. Following that review, the webinar will discuss perspectives on FDA’s authority to regulate these products and consider potential regulatory approaches at the federal, state, and local levels.
Kevin Burd, Chief Executive Officer, Chemular, Inc. and Chief Executive Officer, North American Nicotine
Bonnie Coffa, Business Development Manager, Enthalpy Analytical
Kathleen Hoke, Law School Professor and Director, Network for Public Health Law Eastern Region, Francis King Carey School of Law, University of Maryland
Eric N. Lindblom, Independent Consultant and Senior Scholar, O’Neill Institute, Georgetown Law Center
Moderated by Kenneth Michael Cummings, Professor, Medical University of South Carolina

FDA’s Rulemaking Process & Upcoming Tobacco Product Standards
2022-02-10 20:00 - 21:00
Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) Center for Tobacco Products (CTP) is holding a public webinar titled “FDA’s Rulemaking Process and Planned Tobacco Product Standards to Prohibit Menthol as a Characterizing Flavor in Cigarettes and Flavors in Cigars.” In April 2021, FDA announced plans to advance two tobacco product standards within the next year: one to prohibit menthol as a characterizing flavor in cigarettes and another to prohibit all characterizing flavors, except tobacco, in cigars. The webinar will provide an overview of the following:
FDA’s planned tobacco product standards and why they matter to public health
FDA’s rulemaking process and how stakeholders can participate
Information about cessation resources and tools
FDA experts will also answer some of the most commonly submitted stakeholder questions. Please note FDA will respond only to questions submitted by February 4. To submit a question, please register for the webinar and complete the appropriate field on the registration form.
The public webinar will be a live webcast. The link will be provided in the confirmation email you receive after you register for the event. If you do not receive a confirmation email within 24 hours after registering, please contact Malini Runnells at malini.runnells@fda.hhs.gov.
For More Information
If you have questions about this program, please email ctpoutreach@fda.hhs.gov.

International Day of Women and Girls in Science
2022-02-11 08:00 - 17:00
Science and gender equality are both vital for the achievement of the internationally agreed development goals, including the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. Over the past decades, the global community has made a lot of effort in inspiring and engaging women and girls in science. Yet women and girls continue to be excluded from participating fully in science.
In order to achieve full and equal access to and participation in science for women and girls, and further achieve gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls, the United Nations General Assembly declared 11 February as the International Day of Women and Girls in Science in 2015.

Virtual Tobacco Cessation Program_ Series # 2
2022-03-05 19:00 - 20:00
This program is for active tobacco users only. Please ONLY sign up if you are a current tobacco user interested in reducing your tobacco use.
Thank you
Your health is very important to us. Due to the COVID-19 outbreak, Onsite Tobacco Cessation program will take place virtually instead of in-person .
Your assigned Onsite Health Coach will contact you with additional details prior to your first scheduled session.

Vaping and E-cigarettes Awareness workshop
2022-03-07 14:00 - 15:15
An interactive workshop for Oxfordshire based health and social care workers to learn about e-cigarettes and how they help smokers quit.
Find out more: https://www.oxfordshire.gov.uk/residents/social-and-health-care/health-recovery-and-wellbeing/smoke-free-oxfordshire

SRNT (Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco)
2022-03-15 - 2022-03-18
2022 SRNT Annual Meeting – Baltimora
Poster Presentation
Giovanni Li Volti and Massimo Caruso

“E-CIGS EXHIBIT LOWER TOXICITY COMPARED TO CIGARETTES: THE REPLICA STUDY GROUP EXPERIENCE”
“COMPARISON OF DIFFERENT CYTOTOXICITY ASSAYS FOR THE ASSESSMENT OF TOBACCO RELATED PRODUCT TOXICITY”

Tobacco, It's Lit, But Is It Really Just Smoke?
2022-03-22 18:00 - 19:00
Join us virtually as Tiffany Thigpen, Region 10 Tobacco Prevention Coordinator, comes to present about tobacco and what it really is.

43rd Annual National Convention of the Philippine College of Occupational Medicine (PCOM)
2022-03-23
43rd Annual Convention of the Philippine College of Occupational Medicine (PCOM), with which we are organizing a satellite symposium entitled “Tobacco Harm Reduction (THR)”.
Title: “Potential Impact of THR on Cigarette Use in Adult Smokers”.
Speaker: prof. Riccardo Polosa

The New Look of Nicotine
2022-03-30 15:00 - 16:30
Overview of vaping, prevalence of use, toxicology & safety

About this event

In this presentation, “The New Look of Nicotine Addiction” , participants will receive an overview of vaping 101, the prevalence of use, toxicology and safety, secondary exposure cessation and harm reduction as well as youth use and risks. What does new research tell us about youth vaping and COVID-19? With almost 1 in 4 Ohio high school students using a vaping product and the FDA identifying vaping as an epidemic, what should you and your community know about vaping and Juuling?

Participants will:
• understand the history, growth and iterations of the electronic cigarette
• be able to identify common myths about the electronic cigarette
• be able to identify health risks of using electronic cigarettes
• be able to identify best practice vape prevention tools as well as alternative to suspension interventions.

CEUs
Montgomery County Alcohol, Drug Addiction and Mental Health Services has been approved by the Ohio Counselor, Social Worker and Marriage and Family Therapist Board to offer continuing education credit hours to Counselors and Social Workers (Provider #RCS111304) and the Ohio Chemical Dependency Professionals Board to offer recognized clock hours to Chemical Dependency Counselors and Prevention Professionals (Provider #50-17863) and has approved this training for 1.5 hours of CEUs.
In order to ethically provide CEUs, we use a platform that generates attendance time reports. We must have a total time in attendance for each participant in order to issue CEUs and the CEUs issued are based on the total amount of time accumulated between the time an attendee joins and the time the attendee logs off. We are ethically bound to report the accumulated amount of time a participant attended, therefore we cannot issue CEUs to:

Individuals sharing a monitor, computer, and/or login
Individuals joining by audio phone only
Individuals missing more than 10 minutes of a training that is 60 minutes in length

CEUs will be adjusted to the nearest quarter hour to reflect the amount of time present for sessions over 60 minutes in length.
This session will not be recorded. If you are unable to attend but would like to request more information and resources from the speaker, please contact Becky Ketron at bketron@mcadamhs.org

EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY 2022
2022-04-02 | Philadelphia, United States
EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY 2022Pennsylvania Convention Center – Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USAApril 2-5, 2022
Abstract Title: Electronic Nicotine Delivery Systems Exhibit LowerToxicity Compared to Cigarettes: “The Replica Study Experience”Presenting Author: Alfio DistefanoSession Title: Interdisciplinary/translational science (SEBM)Session Day: Sunday, April 3, 2022Programming Society: American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

2nd edition Vaping Expo 02/03/04 April 2022
2022-04-02 - 2022-04-04 | MalpensaFiere | Centro Fiere Congressi ed Eventi, 16 Via XI Settembre, Busto Arsizio, 21052, Italy

Smoking, Quitting and Vaping
2022-04-13 19:00 - 21:00
Why do people smoke? And why is it so difficult to quit? Could vaping be part of the solution?
By Professor Lynne Dawkins, Professor of Nicotine and Tobacco Studies, School of Applied Sciences, LSBU

Alcohol, Tobacco and Other Drug Summit
2022-04-21 15:30 - 23:30
Shelby County Alcohol, Tobacco, and Other Drug Summit

About this event

The Memphis Area Prevention Coalition, The University of Memphis, Church Health, and Alliance Health Care bring you the 2022 ATOD Summit! This will be an all-day event offering 6 Continuing Education hours! This conference is free!
Alcohol kills on average 95,000 Americans every year. Tobacco related deaths average 480,000 per year. Once again, meth is back on the scene in full force and taking over US cities. Hear from local experts about current data and find out what we can do to help prevent unnecessary ATOD related deaths.
To join the ATOD Summit, visit the ATOD Summit Webpage (Click Here ).
Thank you to our wonderful Summit Sponsors:

University of Memphis

How to provide Very Brief advice on Smoking Cessation during COVID, Virtual
2022-05-11 02:30 - 16:30
Learn how by using simple motivational interviewing techniques can enable you to support and guide a smoker to stub out the habit
About this event
We are providing FREE virtual bite size training packages for those supporting people living in the East Riding. The course will give you the skills and confidence in understanding more about smoking and the use of tobacco, an introduction to motivational interviewing technique.

Following the science: using the best available evidence to assess the health risks of nicotine products.
2022-05-12 15:00 - 16:00
Nicotine products have undergone numerous developments in the last half a century. Many alternatives to traditional combustible tobacco products have been introduced to consumers, most of which were developed to reduce harms associated with traditional products. As these products become increasingly popular with consumers, it is important to continuously assess their efficacy and safety with the goal of minimising harm. In this webinar, we will present our approach to objectively and methodologically identifying and analysing the best available evidence. We will explore what the current evidence tells us about the relative harms of the full spectrum of nicotine products, from combustible cigarettes to nicotine replacement therapies. Drawing on other examples of harm reduction, we will discuss the importance of taking a pragmatic approach to public health issues to obtain better outcomes.

Vapitaly 2022
2022-05-14 - 2022-05-16 | Veronafiere, Viale dell’Industria, 36, Verona, VR, 37135, Italy
The sixth edition of the Italian International Vaping Event will take place in Verona (Italy), where it originally started: Veronafiere Exhibition centre and the city of Verona, strategically located and internationally renowned, will again be the place where Italian and international vaping entrepreneurs, retailers and vape lovers meet.

1st International Conference on IMAGE ANALYSIS AND PROCESSING
2022-05-23 - 2022-05-27 | Lecce
ICIAP 2021 is the 21st edition of a series of conferences organized every two years by the Italian Association for Research in Computer Vision, Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning (CVPL, ex GIRPR) which is part of the International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR). The focus of the conference is on both classic and recent trends in computer vision, pattern recognition and image processing, and covers both theoretical and applicative aspects.

Virtual Tobacco Cessation Program_ Series # 2
2022-05-24 12:00 - 12:30
About this event
This program is for active tobacco users only. Please ONLY sign up if you are a current tobacco user interested in reducing your tobacco use.
Thank you
Your health is very important to us. Due to the COVID-19 outbreak, Onsite Tobacco Cessation program will take place virtually instead of in-person .
Your assigned Onsite Health Coach will contact you with additional details prior to your first scheduled session.

CoEHAR National Conference for No Tobacco Day
2022-05-31 09:00 - 16:30 | Piazza Università catania, Via Roccaforte, Catania, Catania, 95124, Italia
On Tuesday 31 May 2022, on the occasion of No Tobacco Day, the CoEHAR Research Center for the Reduction of Harm from Smoking of the University of Catania organizes the first National Conference on the reduction of harm from smoking entitled “Risks and benefits of products without combustion “.

56TH ANNUAL SCIENTIFIC MEETING
2022-06-08 - 2022-06-10 | Bari, Bari, Italy
Dear Friends, Colleagues and ESCI members,
Because of pandemia, we totally changed our behaviors and learned how to interacted with each other by using technology in Scientific and personal communication. We got new ideas as researchers while on worldwide lockdown. We now see now the light at the end of the tunnel and, on behalf of the European Society for Clinical Investigation (ESCI), I warmly invite you to attend the 54th Annual Scientific Meeting, to be held in Bari, Italy, June 8-10, 2022. This will be the second time that the conference will take place in Bari, a city with an important University campus. Bari has thousands of years of history, overlooking the Adriatic Sea in the Apulia Region, the beating heart of the Mediterranean Europe with superb people, culture, heritage, and food.
From the past years, ESCI has been committed to update our knowledge, to share expertise by merging clinicians and basic researchers across Europe, working in the multidisciplinary field of biomedical research. No matter how bad the situation has been, we are coming back stronger in the post-COVID era, with great responsibility.
The congress will focus on “BRIDGING GAPS BETWEEN AGING, TRANSLATIONAL, AND TRANSITIONAL RESEARCH” hosting top speakers, sound research groups, merging basic, translational and clinical research, organizing symposia and pre-meeting courses, oral presentations and poster sessions. Going back “to the future” allowing hundreds of young investigators to meet, discuss, challenge each other, and share novel experiences in a beautiful environment.
I am sure you will consider being part of this large international scientific community by active participation, promoting new ideas and collaborations. ESCI will continue to support, encourage excellent, honest, highly innovative and sound clinical science through collaborations and mobility of young investigators across Europe and worldwide.
I look forward to seeing you in a splendid location, Bari 2022 – ESCI is waiting for you!
Piero Portincasa
Local organizer
Past-President ESCI
President Trust, ESCI

E-cigarettes and Smoking: Correlation, Causation, and Selection Bias
2022-06-09 15:00 - 16:00
Some public health officials, including those in Korea, discourage smokers from using electronic nicotine delivery systems (ENDS) because ENDS use is positively correlated with smoking in cross-sectional surveys. From the observed correlation such officials deduce that ENDS causally discourage cessation from tobacco. However, use of ENDS is a choice made by individuals, and that choice is highly likely to be correlated with unobserved factors related to smoking behavior. Ignoring this issue of sample selection leads to bias in estimates of the causal effect of ENDS use on smoking. This study investigates this correlation, selection bias, and the causal effect of ENDS use on cessation with several econometric models designed to estimate causal effects from cross-sectional, observational data. Direct and indirect evidence supports the hypotheses that there are 1) selection bias and 2) a causal effect leading from ENDS use to a higher probability of cessation.

Peninsula Forum for Environment and Human Health 2022
2022-06-14 11:00 - 13:30
The European Centre for Environment and Human Health (ECEHH) would like to invite you to explore the benefits of “Harnessing the power of community engagement in research”
For more than a decade the European Centre for Environment and Human Health has worked to put the complex relationships between people and the environment at the top of local, national and international agendas.
This year’s Peninsula Forum will focus on the power of community engagement when used as part of world class research.
Discover how our pioneering research and collaborative approach is identifying solutions to benefit both nature and people and influencing local, national and international policy-change.

Annual Cardiac Sarcoidosis Symposium
2022-06-15 13:00 - 21:00
Cardiac sarcoidosis is a condition that has gained a growing interest in recent years, from a wide range of professionals including respiratory physicians, cardiologists, nurses and scientists.
This symposium will showcase the latest research and clinical guidelines on cardiac sarcoidosis, with an emphasis on the multidisciplinary approach, in combination with clinical information and various imaging modalities.
Our expert speakers will focus on the clinical diagnosis, management and prognosis of cardiac sarcoidosis – both from a cardiac and a respiratory perspective.
