Research Tobacco Specific Substances

Research

• - Conducts research on the formation of tobacco policy.
  
• - Recent papers published in the Journal of the American Medical Association on tobacco and related topics.
  
• - Academic center at the University of Wisconsin dedicated to researching tobacco dependence, providing intervention and outreach services for young people and adults, and developing policy initiatives to reduce tobacco use and resultant health and economic
  
• - Research aims to learn more about how cigarette smoke suppresses the immune system, ultimately causing respiratory tract infections and cancer.
  
• - Eight pairs of small Oregon communities were randomly assigned to receive a school based prevention program alone, or that plus a community program. Results, analysis, and discussion.
  
• - Contrary to assertions that "everyone knows", research finds that most smokers underestimate the risk.
  
• - Econometric analyses of the impact of tobacco control expenditures on aggregate tobacco use show that state tobacco control programs work.
  
• - Economist summarizes the research and dispells the myth that reduced smoking will cost jobs.
  
• - Poster session from health conference focuses on factors affecting tobacco use.
  
• - Abstracts from scientific publications presented at a 2002 health conference, discusses issues in Japan, Mexico, Pakistan, Banglandesh, France, Taiwan.
  
• - About 12 items summarizing various research from 1995 to 2000.
  
• - Poster session from health conference focusses on stats: prevalence, demographics, longitudinal groupings.
  
• - Collaboration between a group of Canadian agencies and governments. Supports researchin tobacco control, aims at research directly relevant to program and policy, and that research results used more systematically to inform tobacco control programs and p
  
• - Medical digest of recent scientific research on tobacco, public health, tobacco dependence, secondhand smoke, cigarette advertising, and tobacco control.
  
• - Recent research concludes "it would be difficult to design a better drug to promote addiction" than nicotine.
  
• - A public health association lays out the reasons for not accepting research funding from the tobacco industry.
  
• - Publications of the Social Sciences Data Collection, UCSD. Reports and raw data available on tobacco sales, prevalence, attitudes, behaviors, and media exposure.
  
• - Teenagers are more likely to think smoking is cool after they've watched their Hollywood idols light up on screen -- unless they've just seen an advertisement reminding them of the real effects of tobacco, research finds.
  
• - Research funding opportunities; research progress reports; conference proceedings and publications; newsletters; upcoming events.
  
• - Office of Tobacco Control, Canada, has links to numerous tobacco and smoking research documents.
  
• - Abstracts of research articles on tobacco promotion, media, tobacco control, African American populations, industry strategies, cigars.
  
• - The Institute strives to prevent death and disease from tobacco use around the world through research, education, evaluation, and policy development.
  
• - Pamphlet from Cancer Research UK makes the case against accepting tobacco industry funding of research.
  
• - Evaluation and research of the American Legacy Foundation's programs.
  
• - Online book runs to 700 pages and has chapters on: harm reduction, tobacco products, nicotine pharmacology, tobacco smoke and toxicology, cancer, heart disease, birth defects, and tobacco industry marketing of health claims.
  
• - Poster session from recent conference looks at tobacco and ethnic minorities, low income Americans, people with disabilities.
  
• - Research from the UK, University of Birmingham
  
• - Repository for scholarship published by the Center spanning policy and historical research, economics, and science.
  
• - Harvard Public Health Review article covers research being conducted on increasing tobacco use in college students.
  
• - Information on the latest research, abstracts, publications and events related to nicotine and tobacco.
  
• - Large set of research reports organized by the Institute on active and passive smoking, policy, cost, health effects, and the tobacco industry. Abstracts or full text available online for most.
  
• - Survey finds that most smokers regret the day they took their first puff, overestimate the likelihood they'll be able to quit, and underestimate how lonig it will take.
  
• - Reducing tobacco harm through research, training, communication and public policy.
  
• - A seven university, collaborative effort to study new ways of combating tobacco use and nicotine addiction, and translate the results and implications of this work for policy makers, practitioners, and the public.
  
• - NCI monographs pull together research results on cigartetets, smoking, prevention, and related topics.
  
• - Research finds that many Light and Ultra-light smokers are unaware that one Ultra-light/Light cigarette can give them the same amount of tar and nicotine as one regular cigarette, and this mistaken belief may be keeping them smoking.
  
• - Working to maintain a formal network of economists, epidemiologists, social scientists and other tobacco control experts able to provide rapid, policy-relevant research on country-level, regional or international tobacco control issues.
  
• - Monitors trends in tobacco use in Wisconsin, evalutes statewide programs and policies, and assists local communities in program evaluation and communicating findings to state and local leaders.
  
• - Article in the New England Journal of Medicine; California's aggressive anti-tobacco program saved 33,000 lives overall, but when it was watered down by the Governor in 1992, 8300 lives were lost.
  
• - Annotated bibliography; supplies links when cited source is online.
  
• - List of archives of interest to researchers; hosted by UCSF. Some online.
  
• - Research reports on tobacco, the tobacco industry, smoking, cessation, tobacco marketing, media.
  
• - Conference on nicotine addiction and tobacco products. All proceedings online. Includes papers on nicotine delivery systems; pharmacology of nicotine; ethnicity, gender, and risk factors for smoking initiation; economics; advertising and promotion; preve
  
• - Study finds that the vast majority of smokers do not accurately assess the risk of smoking.
  
• - "Despite public denials, internal tobacco company documents indicate that adolescents have long been the target of cigarette advertising and promotional activities...(From this analysis) we projected how many future deaths in the United States can be
  
• - "The National Cancer Institute (NCI) and the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) invite grant applications (P50) for a Specialized Program of Research Excellence (SPORE) in tobacco use research. The intent of this initiative is to provide support
  
• - OTRU is the research component of the Ontario Tobacco Strategy, and is a focal point for an active tobacco control research network in Ontario.
  
• - Develops and evaluates interventions to prevent smoking and encourage cessation; investigates the tobacco industry's marketing activity and determines how to counter them; evaluates specific policy approaches to tobacco control.
  
• - Abstracts from conference presentations on measuring prevalence, demographics, and trends.
  
• - From the National Institute on Drug Abuse, report on nicotine, nicotine delivery systems such as cigarettes and other tobacco products, the extent and impact of tobacco products, treatments for nicotine addiction, and gender differences.
  
• - Results of extended telephone survey in BC, Canada, looks at trends, provincial breakdown, aboriginal use, south east Asian use, alternate tobacco forms, and teen use.
  
  

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