75 Years Later:  The Impact of the 1950 Papers on Smoking and Lung Cancer

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Friday, September 12, 2025
8:30 am Registration and Breakfast
9 am – 2:15 pm – Symposium

Nationwide & Ohio Farm Bureau 4-H Center
2201 Fred Taylor Drive
Columbus, OH 43210

This symposium will celebrate the achievements that have occurred over the past 75 years in the fields of tobacco control, lung cancer epidemiology and causal inference. Two seminal papers on lung cancer and smoking initiated these three areas of scholarship in 1950. Since then, significant public health, policy, and research contributions have been made by scholars around the world. In this symposium, speakers will highlight such accomplishments and present their current research in these fields.

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The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center – Arthur G. James Cancer Hospital and Richard J. Solove Research Institute (OSUCCC – James) 75 years later: The impact of the 1950 papers on smoking and lung cancer Friday, Sept. 12, 2025 (In person and virtual) 8:30 am – Registration and breakfast 9 a.m. - 2:15 p.m. – Symposium Nationwide & Ohio Farm Bureau 4-H Center 2201 Fred Taylor Drive, Columbus, OH 43210 This symposium will celebrate the achievements that have occurred over the past 75 years in the fields of tobacco control, lung cancer epidemiology and causal inference. Two seminal papers on lung cancer and smoking initiated these three areas of scholarship in 1950. Since then, significant public health, policy, and research contributions have been made by scholars around the world. In this symposium, speakers will highlight such accomplishments and present their current research in these fields. Registration There is no fee to attend. Scan the QR code or visit go.osu.edu/smokingpapers to register. FEATURED SPEAKERS A 75-Year History of Tobacco Control in America Scott Leischow, PhD Research Professor, College of Health Solutions, Arizona State University Lung Cancer Screening in America: Progress and Modeling Contributions Pianpian Cao, PhD Assistant Professor, Department of Public Health Purdue University College of Health and Human Services The Next Generation of Tobacco Control Policies Patricia Zettler, JD John W. Bricker Professor, The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law Casual Inference in Epidemiology: From Hill’s Criteria to Potential Outcomes Eben Kenah, ScD Professor, Division of Biostatistics, The Ohio State University College of Public Health Using Casual Methods to Examine Policy Effects on Health Parvati Singh, PhD Assistant Professor, Division of Epidemiology, The Ohio State University College of Public Health Tobacco Harm Reduction: New Products, New Concerns? Alayna Tackett, PhD Associate Professor, Department of Internal Medicine, The Ohio State University College of Medicine The Ohio State University Center for Tobacco Research