Welcome to the Public Health Report. In this week's episode our host Laura Sheckter reports on three papers and some breaking news.

Topic 1- Rising income inequality's relationship with declining health

Hui Zheng, Yoonyoung Choi, Jonathan Dirlam, Linda George. Rising childhood income inequality and declining Americans’ health. Social Science & Medicine, 2022; 115016 DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2022.115016

Topic 2- Physiological effects of student debt

Adam M. Lippert, Jason N. Houle, Katrina M. Walsemann. Student Debt and Cardiovascular Disease Risk Among U.S. Adults in Early Mid-Life. American Journal of Preventive Medicine, 2022; DOI: 10.1016/j.amepre.2022.02.002

Topic 3- One large effect of the U.S. ban of menthol cigarettes

Geoffrey T Fong, Janet Chung-Hall, Gang Meng, Lorraine V Craig, Mary E Thompson, Anne C K Quah, K Michael Cummings, Andrew Hyland, Richard J O'Connor, David T Levy, Cristine D Delnevo, Ollie Ganz, Thomas Eissenberg, Eric K Soule, Robert Schwartz, Joanna E Cohen, Michael O Chaiton. Impact of Canada’s menthol cigarette ban on quitting among menthol smokers: pooled analysis of pre–post evaluation from the ITC Project and the Ontario Menthol Ban Study and projections of impact in the USA. Tobacco Control, 2022; tobaccocontrol-2021-057227 DOI: 10.1136/tobaccocontrol-2021-057227

Topic 4- Highway messaging may be causing more harm than good

Jonathan D. Hall, Joshua M. Madsen. Can behavioral interventions be too salient? Evidence from traffic safety messages. Science, 2022; 376 (6591) DOI: 10.1126/science.abm3427

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