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• A Randomised Controlled Trial of a Community Prevention Campaign

  http://tobaccocontrol.bmj.com/content/9/1/24.full
  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.

• Cancer Control and Population Sciences: Tobacco Control Research

  http://cancercontrol.cancer.gov/brp/tcrb/monographs/index.html
  NCI monographs pull together research results on cigarettes, smoking, prevention, and related topics.

• Center for Tobacco Control Research and Education

  http://escholarship.org/uc/ctcre
  Repository for scholarship published by the Center spanning policy and historical research, economics, and science.

• Clearing the Smoke: Assessing the Science Base for Tobacco Harm Reduction

  http://books.nap.edu/openbook.php?isbn=0309072824
  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.

• JAMA Tobacco

  http://jama.jamanetwork.com/collection.aspx?categoryid=5936
  Recent papers published in the Journal of the American Medical Association on tobacco and related topics.

• Monitoring the Tobacco Epidemic: Data Sources

  http://apha.confex.com/apha/128am/techprogram/session_1090.htm
  Abstracts from conference presentations on measuring prevalence, demographics, and trends.

• Most Smokers Do Not View Themselves At Increased Risk for Health Problems

  http://jama.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=189045
  Contrary to assertions that "everyone knows", research finds that most smokers underestimate the risk.

• Nicotine Perfectly Built for Addiction

  http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/nicotine-perfectly-built-for-addiction-study-1.308986
  Recent research concludes "it would be difficult to design a better drug to promote addiction" than nicotine.

• NIDA Research Report - Nicotine Addiction

  http://www.drugabuse.gov/publications/research-reports/tobacco-addiction
  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.

• Smoking Experimentation and Smoking-attributable Mortality due to Joe Camel and Marlboro advertising and promotions

  http://tobaccocontrol.bmj.com/content/8/1/37.full
  "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 attributed to each brand."

• Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco

  http://www.srnt.org/
  Information on the latest research, abstracts, publications and events related to nicotine and tobacco.

• Special Populations and Tobacco

  http://apha.confex.com/apha/128am/techprogram/session_3122.htm
  Poster session from recent conference looks at tobacco and ethnic minorities, low income Americans, people with disabilities.

• Surveillance and Evaluation Program

  http://sep.uwcarbone.wisc.edu/
  Monitors trends in tobacco use in Wisconsin, evaluates statewide programs and policies, and assists local communities in program evaluation and communicating findings to state and local leaders.

• The Impact of Tobacco Control Program Expenditures on Aggregate Cigarette Sales: 1981-1998

  http://www.nber.org/papers/w8691
  Econometric analyses of the impact of tobacco control expenditures on aggregate tobacco use show that state tobacco control programs work.

• The Institute for Global Tobacco Control at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

  http://www.jhsph.edu/research/centers-and-institutes/institute-for-global-tobacco-control/
  The Institute strives to prevent death and disease from tobacco use around the world through research, education, evaluation, and policy development.

• The Ontario Tobacco Research Unit

  http://www.otru.org/
  OTRU is the research component of the Ontario Tobacco Strategy, and is a focal point for an active tobacco control research network in Ontario.

• Tobacco Research from Around the World: An International Perspective Poster Session

  http://apha.confex.com/apha/130am/techprogram/session_8742.htm
  Abstracts from scientific publications presented at a 2002 health conference, discusses issues in Japan, Mexico, Pakistan, Banglandesh, France, Taiwan.

• Tobacco Use in British Columbia

  http://www.health.gov.bc.ca/tobacrs/
  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.

• Tobacco-Related Disease Research Program

  http://www.trdrp.org/
  Research funding opportunities; research progress reports; conference proceedings and publications; newsletters; upcoming events.

• UW - Center for Tobacco Research and Intervention

  http://www.ctri.wisc.edu/
  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 burdens. Tobacco facts, research study participation, grant opportunities, latest research findings.

 

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