What’s new in things to do?
You can quickly find updates since the last edition by looking for “*NEW*.
Some of these events might not support the use of reduced-risk products. Some have covered nicotine in the past but may not cover that topic every year.
2025 Virtual Only: (Scroll down to the next section for in-person and hybrid events)
*NEW* June 26, 2025 (Virtual) - Hard to Quit: Tobacco Use Among Older Americans. (Virtual) “Join us for a panel discussion with experts in policy, research, and lived experience about the complex, interrelated factors that influence smoking and nicotine consumption among older Americans.”
*NEW* Jul 3, 2025 (Podcast) - Episode 7: Why Language Matters in Documentation.
Jul 11, 2025, 2:00-3:00 PM ET (Virtual) - Tobacco Online Policy Seminar (TOPS) - Jamie Hartmann-Boyce, University of Massachusetts Amherst “Interventions for quitting vaping: Findings from a new Cochrane Living Systematic Review”
*NEW* Jul 23, 2025, 12:00-1:30 PM ET (Virtual) - Breaking the Cycle: Interrupting Intergenerational Trauma in Substance Use Disorders.
Aug 8, 2025, 2:00-3:00 PM ET (Virtual) - Tobacco Online Policy Seminar (TOPS) - Lauren Schmitz, University of Wisconsin - Madison “Understanding the Role of Genetic Heterogeneity in Smoking Interventions: Experimental Evidence from the Lung Health Study”
Aug 22, 2025, 2:00-3:00 PM ET (Virtual) - Tobacco Online Policy Seminar (TOPS) - Justin White, Boston University “Effect of a minimum floor price law for tobacco products on tobacco sales in Oakland, California”
Sep 5, 2025, 2:00-3:00 PM ET (Virtual) - Tobacco Online Policy (Seminar (TOPS) - Orestis Efthimiou, University of Bern (Switzerland) “Personalized counselling on the use of e-cigarettes to achieve tobacco abstinence: secondary analysis of data from a RCT”
*NEW* Sep 8-10, 2025, (Virtual) - The 2nd International Online Conference on Toxics. (Nicotine is on the list of “3. Cutting-Edge Approaches in Pharmacology & Toxicology”)
Sep 19, 2025, 2:00-3:00 PM ET (Virtual) - Tobacco Online Policy Seminar (TOPS) - Rachel Fung, University of Missouri “Historical Cigarette Prohibition, Cigarette Use, and Mortality”
Oct 8, 2025, (Virtual) - Introduction to Tobacco and Nicotine Law and Regulation. Registration is opening soon.
Nov 13, 2025 (Tentative Virtual Date) - NTSC (More information coming soon) The theme will be "Dual-Use: Who, What, How?”
2025 In-Person or In-Person/Virtual (Hybrid):
Jun 22-25, 2025, Nashville, TN, US - 14th Annual Conference of the American Society of Health Economists. More information is coming soon. Option to sign up to be notified when registration opens.
Jun 22-25, 2025, Aspen, CO, US - Aspen Ideas: Health.
Jun 23-25, 2025, Dublin, Ireland - World Conference on Tobacco Control 2025. (Note eligibility restrictions.)
Jun 25-26, 2025, nipaluna/Hobart, Tasmania - Alcohol, Tobacco and other Drugs Conference (ATDC).
Jun 30-Jul 2, 2025, UK - RES 2025 Annual Conference. (Royal Economic Society).
JUL 14-18, 2025, Anaheim, CA, US (In-Person) - 2025 NACCHO360 (National Association of County and City Health Officials).
Jul 16-17, 2025, Wisconsin Dells, WI, US (In-person and Virtual) - 2025 Wisconsin Harm Reduction Conference.
Jul 17-20, 2025, New Orleans, LA, US - ACBS World Conference 2025.
*NEW* Jul 24-25, 2025, University of Macau, Taipa, Macau, China - International Conference on Substance Abuse and Addictive Behavior.
Aug 6-8, 2025, Surfers Paradise QLD, AU - 2025 DANA Conference (Drug and Alcohol Nurses of Australasia).
Aug 7-9, 2025, Denver, CO, US - APA Annual Convention Bridging the Gap: Digital Innovation in Addiction Psychology.
*NEW* Aug 11-13, 2025, Washington, DC, US - National Prevention Network Conference 2025. (There is one session on youth tobacco use)
*NEW* Aug 12, 2025, Wilmington, DE - Harm Reduction Conference
*NEW* Aug 13-16, 2025, Garden Grove, CA, US - California Society of Addiction Medicine Annual Conference – 2025.
Aug 21-22, 2025, Tuscaloosa, AL, US - 2025 VitAL Annual Conference.
*NEW* Aug 25, 2025, Chicago, IL, US (In-person) - ASH 2nd U.S. Tobacco Endgame Summit.
*NEW* Aug 26, 2025, Chicago, IL, US (In-person) - Quitline Reception 2025 6-8 pm.
Aug 26-28, 2025 Chicago, IL, US - The National Conference on Tobacco or Health (NCTOH)
Aug 27-29, 2025, Manchester - 2025 Contemporary Drug Problems Conference.
*NEW* Aug 29-31, 2025, Sydney, Australia - IMiA 2025. (International Medicine in Addiction Conference) (One of the sessions includes nicotine)
Sep 3-5, 2025 Chicago, IL, US - 10th International Congress on Peer Review and Scientific Publication.
Sep 6-9, 2025, Barcelona, Spain - IASLC 2025 World Conference on Lung Cancer.
Sep 8, 2025, Washington DC, US (In-person) - Friends of the National Library of Medicine annual Awards Dinner. (More Info)
Sep 10-11, 2025, Wisconsin Dells, WI, US (In-person and Virtual) - Wisconsin Substance Use Prevention Conference. Registration information is not available as of Feb. 3, 2025.
Sep 10-12, 2025, Romania - SRNT-E Conference.
Sep 14-17, 2025, Knoxville, TN, US (In-person & Virtual) - 78th Tobacco Science Research Conference. (Registration opens in July)
Sep 15-18, 2025, Charlotte, NC, US - State of Black Health 2025.
Sep 16-18, 2025, Renton, WA, US (In-person) - 2025 Public Health Law Conference.
*NEW* Sep 17-19, 2025, Bali, Indonesia - ISSUP Regional Conference (International Society of Substance Use Prevention and Treatment Professionals)
Sep 19-20, 2025, Somerville, MA, US (In-person and Virtual) - Addictions 2025 Conference. (Includes nicotine)
Sep 22, 2025, New York, NY, US (In-person and Virtual) - New Approaches Conference.
*NEW* Sep 23-26, 2025, Berlin, Germany - 16th EUSPR Conference and Members’ Meeting.
Sep 24-26, 2025 San Francisco, CA, US - (International Network on Brief Interventions for Alcohol and Other Drugs) - Inebria 2025. (They cover brief interventions for alcohol, tobacco, or other drugs or addictive behaviours.)
Sep 28 - Oct 2, 2025, Surabaya, Indonesia - The CORESTA Agronomy & Leaf Integrity and Phytopathology & Genetics Conference (AP2025).
Sep 30-Oct 1, 2025, Athens, Greece - 8th Summit Tobacco Harm Reduction. #NoSmokeSummit25 - Scientists, healthcare professionals, and students register free of charge. (There is a fee for business participants.)
Oct 5-8, 2025, Prague, Czech Republic - 25th World Congress of Psychiatry (WCP 2025).
Oct 6-8, 2025, Brussels Steigenberger Witcher Hotel, GTNF.
Oct 11-13, 2025, Seattle, WA, US - NAADAC, the Association for Addiction Professionals Annual Conference. Registration is now open.
*NEW* Oct 14-17, 2025, Cape Town, South Africa - INHSU 2025. (The 13th International Conference on Health and Hepatitis in Substance Users)
Oct 16-18, 2025, Montreal, Quebec, CA - CSAM-SMCA 2025 Scientific Conference.
Oct 19-23, 2025, Annecy, France - CORESTA Product Science and Product Technology Conference (PSPT2025).
Oct 28-29, 2025, Washington DC, US (In-person & Virtual) - Tobacco and Nicotine Products Regulation and Policy Conference. Details are coming soon.
Oct 30, 2025, Washington DC, US (In-person & Virtual) - Tobacco and Nicotine Products Regulatory Science Symposium. Details are coming soon.
*NEW* Oct 27-29, 2025, San Antonio, TX, US - The commUNITY conference.
Nov 2-5, 2025, Washington DC, US - APHA American Public Health Association Annual Meeting.
Nov 6-7, 2025, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK - SSA Annual Conference (Society for the Study of Addiction).
*NEW* Nov 6-9, 2025, San Francisco, CA, US - AAAP 2025 Annual Meeting and Scientific Symposium. (American Academy of Addiction Psychiatry) (Tobacco and Nicotine are on the agenda)
Nov 9-12, 2025, Sydney, AU - APSAD 2025 (Australasian Professional Society on Alcohol and other Drugs.
Nov 11-12, 2025, Philadelphia, PA, US - 10th annual GOLD International COPD Conference.
Nov 11, 12-14, 2025, Helsinki, Finland - 18th European Public Health Conference 2025. (EPH)
Nov 13-15,2025, Hyatt Seattle, WA, US - Association for Public Policy Analysis & Management - Fall Research Conference. (APPAM). Registration opens in July 2025.
*NEW* Nov 13-15, 2025, Portland, OR, US - AMERSA’s 49th Annual National Conference. (formerly Association for Multidisciplinary Research and Education in Substance use and Addiction)
Nov 17, 2025 (all week) Geneva - FCTC COP11
Nov 17, 2025 (all week) Geneva - GoodCOP/BadCOP - Taxpayers Protection Alliance
*NEW* Nov 18-21, 2025, Copenhagen, Denmark - World Conference on Lung Health.
Nov 24, 2025 (all week) Geneva - FCTC MOP4
Nov 27-28, 2025, Caen, France - 19th Congress of the Francophone Tabacology Society.
Nov 27-29, 2025, Antalya, Türkiye - International Conference on Drug Abuse and Addiction Studies. (No details available as of Jan 13, 2025)
Dec 4-5, 2025, Washington, DC, US (In-person & Virtual) - Enforcement, Litigation, and Compliance Conference: For the Drug, Device, Food, and Tobacco Industries.
*NEW* Dec 4-5, 2025, Groningen, Netherlands, - Tobacco and Novel Product Regulation: Special Attention to Human Rights.
2026:
Jan 3-5, 2026, Philadelphia, PA, US - 2026 Allied Social Science Association (ASSA) annual meeting.
Jan 12-15, 2026, Lancaster, PA, US - 52nd TOBACCO WORKERS' CONFERENCE.
Mar 4-6, 2026 Baltimore, MD, US - SRNT 32nd Annual Meeting.
Apr ? 2026 (usually in April and held at Breezy Point, MN, US) MARRCH Spring Conference. (Minnesota Association of Resources for Recovery and Chemical Health)
Sep 6-9 2026, Cape Town, South Africa - 18th World Conference on Public Health.
Sep 24-26, 2026, Hong Kong - World Cancer Congress.
Nov 1-5, 2026, San Antonio, TX, US - APHA American Public Health Association Annual Meeting.
Nov 5-7, 2026, Boston, MA, US - Association for Public Policy Analysis & Management - Fall Research Conference. (APPAM)
Nov 10-13, 2026, Bilbao, Spain - 19th European Public Health (EPH) Conference 2025.
2027:
16 - 19 November 2027 - 20th EPH Conference, Belgrade, Serbia
Event Resources:
Check out the public Google calendar of THR-related events created and maintained by Clive Bates.
The event calendars from Ecig Intelligence and Tobacco Reporter have extensive trade show listings. I don’t usually include trade shows and expos in my event listings unless they have time dedicated to speakers covering THR.
This is a good resource for information on conferences about addiction/behavior.
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