Senior Research Scientist Marielle Brinkman was interviewed by Discovery Education, CVS Health Foundation and CATCH Global Foundation as part of the Be Vape Free education initiative, which aims to prevent the use of e-cigarettes among elementary, middle and high school-aged children.
For decades, tobacco companies and researchers have used specialized smoking machines to test the physical and chemical properties of cigarette smoke — an important step in the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s regulatory process. The machines work by essentially “puffing” a cigarette and capturing the smoke onto a filter, which can be analyzed to determine levels of various toxins in the smoke.
Use of tobacco products grew 38.3 percent among high school students in 2018, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
College of Public Health senior research scientist Marielle Brinkman has worked over 18 years quantifying human exposures to the toxic chemicals from tobacco product use to support the regulation of these products.
Associate Professor Micah Berman, JD, and Professor Emerita Mary Ellen Wewers, PhD, MPH, helped lead Columbus’s Tobacco 21 campaign, making Columbus the sixth city in Ohio to adopt the ordinance.