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- A Public Health Analysis of the Proposed Resolution of the United States Tobacco Litigation - Institute for Health Policy Studies of the University of California assembles a complete analysis of the proposed 1997 "resolution" that weighs and measures its impact on health.
www.library.ucsf.edu/tobacco/ustl
- A Sweet Deal for Big Tobacco - Analysis of the proposed "global tobacco settlement" of 1997 concludes it would have kept the tobacco industry profitable and done little for the public.
www.acsh.org/publications/priorities/0903/sweetdeal.html
- A tobacco-free Europe - Publications, factsheets, and reports compiled by WHO and other organizations on the effects and trends of tobacco use in Europe.
www.who.dk/eprise/main/WHO/Progs/TOB/Home
- Achievements in Tobacco Cessation: Case Studies - Case studies from Maine, Washington, and Oregon; measurements of improvements provided.
www.surgeongeneral.gov/tobacco/smcasest.htm
- Addressing Tobacco in Managed Care - Tobacco use reduction conferences, papers, research results, and best practices of interest to health plans; health effects; secondhand smoke; effectivess of media campaigns; effectiveness of quit smoking methods.
www.aahp.org/atmc/mainindex.cfm
- Addressing Tobacco in Managed Care-- Bibliography Fall 1998 - Annotated technical bibliography on tobacco cessation, policy, clinical practice guidelines, smoking costs and cessation cost effectiveness, secondhand smoke, physician intervention, pregnancy, spit tobacco, and youth.
www.aahp.org/atmc/Fall98bibliography.htm
- American Lung Association on House Republican proposal - Point by point analysis of the (now dated) proposal. Concludes that it "flunks the test set by Drs. Koop and Kessler and the public health community for effective tobacco control legislation."
www.lungusa.org/press/association/asnfailure.html
- Analysis of the Proposed 1997 Resolution - Analysis of the Master Settlement Agreement by Fox, Lightwood and Glantz; examines whether it lives up to its billing and what it's likely to do for the industry and for the public.
www.tobacco.org/Misc/9708glantzanalysis.html
- Anti-Tobacco Measures Prevent Cancer - California's tough anti-smoking measures and public health campaigns have resulted in a 14% decrease in lung cancer.
www.msnbc.com/news/496913.asp
- ASAM and Nicotine - Scientific analysis and policy recommendations on tobacco products, from the American Society for Addiction Medicine
www.asam.org/nic/nicotine.htm
- Australia National Tobacco Strategy - Aims to improve the health of all Australians by eliminating or reducing their exposure to tobacco in all its forms. Papers on policy approach, tobacco harm minimization, restrictions on marketing, taxation, education, passive smoking, cigarette ingredient disclosure.
www.health.gov.au/pubhlth/strateg/drugs/tobacco
- Best Practices for Reducing the Health Toll from Tobacco in Wyoming - Summary of best practices in tobacco prevention; how it works and why.
wdhfs.state.wy.us/tobacco/bpsummary.htm
- California Tobacco Policy Experience - Papers and factsheets on adult smoking trends in California; California's tobacco education media campaign; do doctors advise their smoker patients to quit smoking; the response of Californians to secondhand smoke; youth smoking trends in California.
www.dhs.ca.gov/tobacco/html/factsheets.htm
- California's Anti-Tobacco Media Campaign - Article on California's anti-smoking ads, what works, and how to have impact with a fraction of the money that the industry spends promoting tobacco.
canadalife.buildingbetterhealth.com/topic/casmoking
- Case Studies in Tobacco Control Policy Development - Abstracts from conference presentations.
apha.confex.com/apha/128am/techprogram/session_1443.htm
- CDC confirms tough anti-tobacco campaigns reduce smoking rates - The federal government says tough anti-smoking campaigns have been successful in several states.
www.newstribune.com/stories/082599/wor_0825990063.asp
- CDC Releases Data on Smoking Prevalence, Attitudes - Prevalence ranged from 12% to 30 in 2000; high levels of public support were found - even among smokers - for smoke-free policies.
healthlink.mcw.edu/article/1014756220.html
- CECHE Tobacco Policy Fact Sheets - Set of short papers from CECHE, a private nonprofit health policy organization. Addresses US policy that affects international tobacco use; tobacco advertising and promotion; women and tobacco; smuggling.
www.ceche.org/publications/factshts/fctshts.htm
- Channing Bete Company Tobacco Policy - The Channing Bete company explains why it has decided not to accept tobacco industry money.
shop.channing-bete.com/pages/pages_static_table/abt_us_pages/tobacco_policy.html
- Cigarette Law - Article in law digest reviews the history of how cigarettes got exempted from almost all product liability law, and considers if the behavior of the tobacco industry would have been different without those exemptions.
www.law.indiana.edu/ilj/v73/no3/givelber.html
- Clean Indoor Air as a Youth Protection Strategy - ANR analysis puts forward a short summary of smokefree environments as a youth tobacco protection and prevention strategy.
www.no-smoke.org/cia_as_youth_access.html
- Clearing the Smoke: Assessing the Science Base for Tobacco Harm Reduction - Online 300 page book.
stills.nap.edu/openbook/0309072824/html
- Conference on Tobacco and Treatment Products - Conclusions, Treatment - Major conclusions: treatment works, treatment is cost effective, treatment is essential to reducing the death toll.
www.ash.org.uk/html/cessation/whobarcelona.pdf
- Cost-effectiveness of Smoking Cessation - "Several analyses have shown that treatment of tobacco dependence is highly cost-effective...Smoking cessation treatment has been dubbed the 'gold standard' of preventive interventions."
mmaf.org/smoking.htm
- CRS Report: Tobacco Control: Enforcement and Effectiveness of Federal and State Youth Access Laws - Report examines effectiveness of youth access as a tobacco control strategy.
www.cnie.org/NLE/CRSreports/Agriculture/ag-72.cfm
- Death and Tobacco Taxes - Health and economic analysis concludes that a 10% increase in tobacco tax would save over 5,000 lives a year.
www.rje.org/abstracts/abstracts/1996/Summer_1996._pp._415_428.html
- Do Workplace Smoking Bans Reduce Smoking? - Economic research examines the effect of smokefree workplaces on tobacco product consumption.
papers.nber.org/papers/W5567
- Economics of Tobacco Control - 500 million people alive today will die of tobacco-related diseass. Modest action by governments could prevent millions and millions of deaths, without harming economies, according to this report.
www1.worldbank.org/tobacco
- Effective Antismoking Ads - Summarizes findings of recent research on effectiveness of antismoking ads.
www.wcn.org/news/99/Feb/pb02229a.htm
- Federal Preemption Now a Barrier to Local Tobacco Ordinances, Health Law Perspectives, Health Law and Policy Institute - Short report from the Health Law and Policy Institute on case law affecting state regulation of tobacco promotion.
www.law.uh.edu/healthlawperspectives/PublicHealth/010817Federal.html
- Final Report of The Advisory Committee on Tobacco Policy and Public HealthAction on Smoking and Health (ASH) - The Koop-Kessler report, nicely HTML-ized.
ash.org/report2.html
- Florida Tobacco Control Clearinghouse - A one-stop shop for tobacco resources/news related to control, prevention, and cessation.
www.ftcc.fsu.edu
- Harris Poll: Tobacco Addiction - Reveals that 70% of all people still smoking have tried to quit, on average four times, and most are aware of tobacco's health effects; poll results called a metric of the power of tobacco addiction.
www.harriszone.com/press/PowerOfTobacco.html
- Health Science Analysis Project - Series of papers that consider the public health impact of various aspects of proposed federal tobacco legislation. From SCARCNet. Papers on disclosure of tobacco industry documents, tobacco control, price increases, regulation, tobacco industry tort liability, secondhand smoke, upcoming legislation.
scarcnet.org/hsap/health.htm
- HoltzReport: Tobacco Control - Index of and links to tobacco control stories and research by independent journalist Andrew Holtz, former CNN Medical Correspondent and Kaiser Family Foundation Media Fellow. Includes analyses of the Truth campaign in Florida and the ballot campaign that raised the tobacco tax in Oregon. Also, links to NPR archives and other information on tobacco issues.
nasw.org/users/holtza/tob_links.htm
- How The Tobacco Deal Compares To Standards - Analysis by Brion Fox and Stan Glantz of how the proposed June 20th 1997 "global settlement" deal compared with established standards.
www.tobacco.org/News/970626howdealstacksup.html
- IIRC: Tobacco Investment - "The one place institutional investors, corporate executives, public health officials and other interested parties can go to get comprehensive, up-to-date, impartial information on the tobacco investment debate." Covers recent industry history, shareholder resolutions, legal situations, advertising and promotion of tobacco, and divestment.
www.irrc.org
- Impacts on Tobacco Use and Policy - Poster session from health conference: cigar smoking among college students, engaging youth in tobacco control activities, and developing health warning messages.
apha.confex.com/apha/128am/techprogram/session_3965.htm
- In Memory of James Beattie Morison M.D. - Includes three papers Dr. Morison wrote on smoking in Canadian children, 1960 through 1982.
members.attcanada.ca/~jmorison/jamesbeattiemorisonmd.htm
- International Tobacco Control Poster Session - Health conference features policy analysis, program evaluation, and presentation of innovative programs.
apha.confex.com/apha/128am/techprogram/session_3117.htm
- Investment In Tobacco Control - State by state breakdown of tobacco use among adults, among youth; deaths related to smoking; smoking attributable medicaid expenditures; lung cancer death rate; tobacco control funding; tobacco excise taxes; cigarette sales.
www.cdc.gov/tobacco/statehi/statehi_2001.htm
- Jeffrey E. Harris, MIT Home page - Online copies of Dr. Harris's economic analyses, most dealing with costs and prices of tobacco products.
www.mit.edu/people/jeffrey/index.html
- John R. Garrison address to the Senate - 1998 testminony of John Garrison, President of the American Lung Association, to the U.S. Senate Committee on Judiciary; outlines tobacco facts and related public policy aims and means.
judiciary.senate.gov/oldsite/garrison.htm
- Kentucky Legislators' Views on Tobacco Policy - Research into policymakers' views in a tobacco state performs a survey of 116 Kentucky legislators. Surprisingly, they were highly supportive of reducing the state's dependence on tobacco and more supportive of tobacco control policies than expected.
www-east.elsevier.com/ajpm/ajpm162/ajpm0208fla.htm
- Kids, Tobacco, and the Civil Enforcement of Latent Laws - Paper comparing different approaches to getting laws enforced that prohibit sales to kids. Compares Driscoll, Mangini.
www.law.berkeley.edu/institutes/csj/Tobacarchive.html
- Koop-Kessler Report on Tobacco Policy and Public Health. - Facts, findings, and recommendations on regulatory policy, research policy, public education, youth and tobacco, performance objectives, current users of tobacco products, secondhand smoke, and future of the tobacco industry and of tobacco control efforts.
www.tobacco.neu.edu/Extra/hotdocs/kk7-97.htm
- Litigation and Public Health Policy Making: The Case of Tobacco Control - Journal article examines the arguments for and against using litigation as a policy tool, with specifics drawn from tobacco control.
www.press.jhu.edu/journals/journal_of_health_politics_policy_and_law/v024/24.4jacobson.html
- Making the Case: Counter Advertising as a Tobacco Use Deterrent - Counter advertising can be effective, but its effectiveness depends on factors such as adequate, long term funding; ability to administer the campaign from from political interference; a broad-based focus rather than one exclusively tragetting children.
www.advocacy.org/publications/mtc/counterads.htm
- Motorsport Sponsorship as a Vehicle for Tobacco Prevention - Paper presented at a conference on social marketing analyses the effectiveness of an innovative tobacco prevention program: sponsoring a race car.
ism2000.cba.hawaii.edu/Klin-ism.htm
- National and State Tobacco Policy and Program Evaluation - Programs in New York, Florida, California, and nationally in the U.S.
apha.confex.com/apha/128am/techprogram/session_3323.htm
- New Canadian Tobacco Package Warnings Effective - Recent research by the Canadian Cancer Society shows the new Canadian cigarette warnings are effective.
www.ontario.cancer.ca/siteboth/english/cigarette_package_warnings.asp
- Only Aggressive Anti-Smoking Ad Campaigns Succeed - UCSF research analyses anti-smoking campaigns, concludes that only aggressive ad campaigns backed by public health advocates succeed.
www.ucsf.edu/daybreak/1999/02/16_glantz.html
- PBS - Dr. David Kessler - Dr. Kessler responds to tobacco industry arguments, lays out the case for regulating tobacco products.
www.pbs.org/plweb-cgi/fastweb?getdoc+pbsonline+newshour+4476+3+wAAA+tobacco%26free%26speech%26%28tobacco%26free%26speech%29%3Ahomepage%26%28tobacco%26free%26speech%29%3Astation
- Policy on Nicotine and Tobacco - Short policy statement from Virginia Commonwealth University outlines College on Problems of Drug Dependence position on nicotine and tobacco use.
views.vcu.edu/cpdd/policy/tobacco.html
- Position Statement on Tobacco on College and University Campuses - American College Health Associations outlines a recommended policy for college campuses, aiming at providing smokefree environments and achieving tobacco use reduction.
www.acha.org/info_resources/tobacco_statement.pdf
- Presentation by Dr. Fenton Howell, Irish Medical Organisation. - Presentation made to the Joint Committee on health and CHildren of the Houses of the Oireachtas, Parliament of Ireland, on tobacco and health.
www.irlgov.ie/committees-99/c-health/Rep-Evidence/page10.htm
- Public Citizen: Tobacco Policy Papers - Discussion and analysis of tobacco policy options including litigation, legislation, regulation, and deals with the industry; focus is on the proposed deal of 1997.
www.citizen.org/congress/civjus/prod_liability/tobacco
- Recovering Tobacco-Caused Public Expenditures from the Tobacco Industry - Tobacco causes Canada about CDN$20 billion a year. Paper presents policy analysis of different ways to recover those costs.
www.nsra-adnf.ca/scostrec.html
- Reducing the Addictiveness of Cigarettes - Can cigarettes be made less addictive? Scientific paper examines the question.
tc.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/full/7/3/281?maxtoshow=&HITS=10&hits=10&RESULTFORMAT=&titleabstract=Reducing+the+addictiveness+of+cigarettes&searchid=QID_NOT_SET&stored_search=&FIRSTINDEX=&fdate=12/1/1997&tdate=2/28/1999
- Report and Recommendations of the Ad Hoc Advisory Committee on Tobacco Investments - University of Michigan considers whether to own tobacco stock; a report of the committee appointed to study the question.
www.umich.edu/~urel/Tobacco/tobreptc.html
- Report on the CRD Smoking Control Bylaw - Region in British Columbia considers and adopts a smoke-free local ordinance; paper outlines the policy considerations including ventilation.
www.crd.bc.ca/health/smokeby.htm
- Restricting Youth Access to Tobacco: Does it Reduce Youth Tobacco Consumption? - Summary of the research by ANR concludes the evidence is poor that youth access strategies are effective in reducing consumption.
www.no-smoke.org/youth3.html
- Rethinking Stop-Smoking Medications- Myths and Facts - Position paper from the Ontario Medical Association, June 1999, outlines policy best supported by the medical science on cessation aids.
www.oma.org/phealth/stopsmoke.htm
- Review of Smoking Prevention and Control Strategies - Review of measured results of different prevention and tobacco control strategies.
tc.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/full/9/1/47
- Risk Perception and Communication: Environmental Tobacco Smoke and Child Health - Tobacco use and ETS issues present a significant challenge to conventional notions of risk communication. Conventional forms of message delivery, have failed utterly in the case of tobacco use. Paper examines this quandry.
www.ucalgary.ca/~wleiss/publications/smoking_body.htm#top
- Scientific Basis for Various Regulatory Aapproaches for Tobacco - Testimony by Dr. Jack Henningfield on the health effects of tobacco and the scientific basis for various regulatory approaches.
tgorski.com/news_analysis/nicotine_addiction_Henningfield_010629.htm
- Smoke Free Europe - A Forum for Networks - October 1996 conference in Helsinki.
www.health.fi/smoke2html/index.html
- Smoke-Free Families - Innovations to stop smoking during and beyond pregnancy: a new national partnership that can dramatically improve the health of mothers and their babies, while saving lives and cutting health care costs.
www.smokefreefamilies.org
- SmokeFree Europe - Conference on tobacco or health, Helsinki, 2-4 October 1996. All abstracts online.
www.health.fi/tkk/smoke_free/smoke.html
- Smoking and Health Action Foundation Publications - Number of papers on policy options, tools, and challenges for reducing tobacco use. Covers: legislation, regulation, pricing, packaging and labelling, cessation and harm reduction, secondhand smoke, and recovery of health care costs.
www.nsra-adnf.ca/english/spublications.html
- Smoking and Health: A Physician Responsibility - Tobacco use is major public health problem and physicians and medical organizations share a public health duty to address this problem. Summary of public health facts of smoking, cessation, nicotine addiction, and physician issues; also public health recommendations on tobacco taxes, smokefree public places and workplaces, tobacco advertising and promotion, cessation services, and content and packaging of tobacco products.
www.chestnet.org/health.science.policy/smoking.html
- Smoking Cessation and Prevention - Bibliography of research; citations to literature on effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of prevention and cessation methods.
www.umdnj.edu/rspthweb/bibs/smokcess.htm
- Smoking Cessation is Cost Effective - Research published in the Journal of the American Medical Association finds that smoking cessation programs are cost-effective.
www.ama-assn.org/sci-pubs/sci-news/1997/snr1203.htm#joc6d99
- Smoking Cessation: A Systems Approach - A Guide for Health Care Administrators, Insurers, Managed Care Organizations, and Purchasers. Cost and effectiveness of various quit smoking methods; best practices; recommendations.
www.ahcpr.gov/clinic/smokesys.htm
- Smoking is a Major Cause of Blindness - Editorial in a health journal considers the scientific and policy merits of a new pack warning.
www.mja.com.au/public/issues/171_4_160899/mitchell/mitchell.html
- Smoking Prevalence and Tobacco Policies in the Member States of the European Union - Info as of 1997; overviews of different tobacco policies and tobacco use in Belgium, Luxembourg, Austria, Sweden, Italy, the UK, Denmark, Netherlands, Finland, Portugal, France, Greece, Germany, Spain, and Ireland.
www.ktl.fi/enypat/data/smokeprev_eu.htm
- Smoking, The African American Community and The Proposed National Settlement - Scholarly article analyzes how well the proposed June 20 1997 federal tobacco deal addresses the impact of tobacco on the African American community; internal tobacco industry documents are cited on how the industry targetted African Americans.
www.udayton.edu/~health/01status/smoking/tobacco3.htm
- Social Climate of Tobacco Control - Report from the Social Science Research Center at Mississippi State University; covers tobacco control in Mississippi and in America; youth and adult smoking prevalence trends.
www.ssrc.msstate.edu/socialclimate
- State and Local Tobacco Control Programs and Evaluation - Poster session from health conference examines a number of programs focusing on the community or local level.
apha.confex.com/apha/128am/techprogram/session_3121.htm
- State Programs Can Reduce Tobacco Use - National Cancer Policy Board report. Report covers: what is the evidence that state programs make a difference? counteradvertising and education; establishing smokefree workplaces and public spaces; increasing prices through taxation; supporting treatment programs for tobacco dependence; reinforcing youth access restrictions; monitoring performance and evaluating programs.
books.nap.edu/html/state_tobacco
- State Programs Offer Lessons on Anti-Tobacco Media Campaigns - Reuters article summarizes research and experience.
news.lycos.com/headlines/Health/article.asp?docid=RTHEALTH-TOBACCO-MEDIA&date=20000811
- State System - CDC report provides demographics of cigarette usage in each state.
www2.cdc.gov/nccdphp/osh/state/browse_index.htm
- Stivoro: Tobacco Control in the Netherlands - Dutch law, public health campaigns, and advocacy efforts of the Dutch Foundation on Smoking and Health (Stivoro).
www.stivoro.nl/english/tobcontr.htm
- Study: Two-pronged effort can cut smoking deaths by 40% - Purdue study on smoking prevention.
www.purdue.edu/UNS/html4ever/960802.Anderson.study.html
- Taking Action to Reduce Tobacco Use - 1998 NRC report. Organized into different policy recommendations.
www.nap.edu/readingroom/books/tobacco
- Testimony on Smoking Cessation - "Other than immunization, smoking cessation is the most cost-effective prevention intervention for adults"
www.ahcpr.gov/news/stat0298.htm
- The Basis for the Federal Tobacco Law Suit - Policy and law analysis makes the case that the U.S. Department of Justice should sue the tobacco industry for costs the product incurred, and industry deception and coverup which resulted in increased use.
www.ash.org/sept99/09-22-99-7.html
- The Case Against Tobacco Advertising - Scientific and policy analysis by the Coronary Prevention Group, a nonprofit organization that does not accept corporate funding.
www.healthpro.org.uk/facts/tobacco_advertising.htm
- The Communication Initiative - Communication Interventions - Numerous papers and summary introductions to programs on smoking and health worldwide.
www.comminit.com
- The Economic Case Against Tobacco Stocks - While some investors avoid tobacco stocks for moral reasons, this article discusses economic reasons for avoiding investing in tobacco stocks.
www.elkin.com/economic_case_against_tobacco.htm
- The Effect of Tobacco Advertising Bans on Tobacco Consumption - Paper in the Journal of Health Economics; concludes that comprehensive bans reduce consumption, limited bands have little or no effect.
www.elsevier.nl/gej-ng/29/27/61/39/32/37/abstract.html
- The Impact of the 1997 Tobacco Tax Increase on Cigarette Consumption in Alaska - Graphs consumption; measures price elasticity.
health.hss.state.ak.us/dph/PDFs/tobacco_report_final.pdf
- The Master Settlement Agreement and the Future of State and Local Tobacco Control - Paper provides a legal and public policy analysis of selected topics and provisions of the multistate Master Settlement Agreement of November 23, 1998, including effects on other legal actions, tobacco advertising, youth access, lobbying, and the national foundation.
www.tobacco.neu.edu/msa/index.html
- The Norwegian ban on Aadvertising of Tobacco Products -- Has it Worked? - Careful analysis of consumption and prevalence rates, among different populations and in general.
www.kreft.no//english/norwegianbanontobaccoadvertisment
- The Opium Wars of the 21st Century: Tobacco and the Developing World - "The struggle against tobacco is not being won, it is being relocated. The tobacco wars of the next century will increasingly be waged among vulnerable populations ill equipped to cope with the slick marketing techniques and the dirty tricks perfected by the tobacco industry."
www.healthnet.org/programs/procor/9710comm.html
- The Physician's Role in Public Policy on Tobacco - Presentation-ready slides from the American College of Chest Physicians.
speakerskit.chestnet.org/06/slides.html
- The Political and Ethical Responsibility of the Physician in controlling the Tobacco Epidemic - Editorial from the Eurpoean Respiratory Society explores what physicians can and should do to combat tobacco.
www.personal.u-net.com/~ersj/Newsletter/newsletter_2.htm
- The Tobacco Companies and Bankruptcy - UCSF policy analysis paper; concludes that while bankruptcy would change the scene, it wouldn't favor the tobacco industry over public health.
www.library.ucsf.edu/tobacco/ustl/brief05.html
- The Use of Counter-Advertising As A Tobacco Use Deterrent - "This paper reviews the scientific evidence on the use of counter-advertising as a tobacco control strategy. In addition, this paper provides a comparative analysis of the provisions addressing counter-advertising in five pieces of pending federal legislation."
scarcnet.org/hsap/counter.htm
- Tobacco Advertising After the Settlement: Where We Are and What Remains To Be Done - Paper in the Kansas Journal of Law and Public Policy examines what the Master Settlement Agreement between the tobacco industry and the states has and has not accomplished.
www.law.ukans.edu/jrnl/v9n4p621.html
- Tobacco control advocates must demand high-quality media campaigns: the California experience - Paper based on media research and analysis of California's tobacco education campaign. Everyone asks what works in anti-smoking education: here are answers.
tc.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/full/7/4/397
- Tobacco Control and the Precede-Proceed Model - Follows a single issue, tobacco control, through the phases of the Precede-Proceed model of health promotion.
www.commhealth.ihpr.ubc.ca/hpp3/appendix.htm
- Tobacco Control Archives - is a central, organized source of information on tobacco. Its purpose is to collect, preserve, and provide access to papers, unpublished documents and electronic resources relevant to tobacco control issues primarily in California.
galen.library.ucsf.edu/tobacco
- Tobacco Control Blueprint - From the Asian and Pacific Islander American Health Foundation, guidelines and policy recommendations for research, programs, advertising and promotions, and international issues.
apiahf.org/programs/blue.html
- Tobacco Control in Arizona: A Roundtable - Summary of recent experiences and results in programs to reduce tobacco use.
apha.confex.com/apha/128am/techprogram/session_3331.htm
- Tobacco Control in California: Who's Winning the War - Tobacco Use Behavior Research, Cancer Prevention and Control Program, University of California, San Diego. Overview, analysis, and evaluation of what causes smoking and what's effective in prevention and cessation.
ssdc.ucsd.edu/tobacco/reports
- Tobacco Control in Jails - What can be done about secondhand smoke in perhaps the ultimate "group housing" -- jail. Guide to implementation of a smokefree policy; planning for change; a tale of two jails; resources.
hsc.unm.edu/epiccpro/jailtitle.html
- Tobacco Control in the 21st Century: Comprehensive Approaches, Role of Cessation - Synthesis of papers presented at the 3rd International Heart Health Conference, Singapore, 28 August to 2 September 1998.
www.health.fgov.be/WHI3/periodical/months/wwhv2se1tekst/focus3.htm
- Tobacco Control Policy Briefing Papers - Papers from the Advocacy Institute on preemption; treating tobacco dependence; counter advertising; secondhand smoke; youth access; special populations.
www.advocacy.org/publications/mtc/index.htm
- Tobacco Control Resource Center - Information on tobacco products and manufacturer liability from Northeastern University School of Law in Boston
www.tobacco.neu.edu
- Tobacco Control: Enforcement and Effectiveness of Federal and State Youth Access Laws - 1998 report by the Congressional Research Service casts doubt on effectiveness of industry-sponsored programs and industry-sponsored youth access legislation, whose main purpose appears to be pre-empt local programs.
www.cnie.org/nle/ag-72.html
- Tobacco Death Toll - 1993 World Bank policy paper: magnitude of the problem; economic costs; what can be done; policy recommendations.
www.worldbank.org/html/extdr/hnp/hddflash/hcnote/hrn001.html
- Tobacco Epidemic: Health Dimensions - WHO factsheet. "Half a billion people now alive will be killed by tobacco products" and other descriptions of the size of the problem.
www.who.int/inf-fs/en/fact154.html
- Tobacco Law Compendium - Searchable by case, legislation, bylaw, or legal literature, as well as document text. In English and French.
www.tobaccolaw.org
- Tobacco Magazine Ads Project - Maryland State Medical Society adopted a resolution in 1996 asking every managed care organization and hospital in the state to establish a policy against the display of magazines that contain tobacco ads; history and analysis of this policy.
www.baltimorecountychain.org
- Tobacco Policy Research - Paper by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation explains the reasons for tobacco policy research, and summarizes its own programs in this area.
www.rwjf.org/app/rw_publications_and_links/publicationsPdfs/library/oldhealth/anth298.htm
- Tobacco Reduction Planning for Public Health - Well organized set of links.
www.ahs.uwaterloo.ca/~hbr/tobacco_plan/0_0.html
- Tobacco Related Local Laws in New York - Laws regulating tobacco vending machines, smokefree workplaces and public places, and cigarette advertising in various cities and communities across the state of New York.
www.nysmokefree.com/LocalLaws.html
- Tobacco Row Under Siege - Investment article. "A sudden upsurge in major lawsuits against tobacco companies has turned previously unconcerned pension funds into shareholder activists."
www.assetpub.com/archive/ps/94-10psnov/nov94PS42.html
- Tobacco Use Control: Community Health Improvement - Report outlines a model for accomplishing and measuring health improvement in the community.
www.allina.com/Allina_Journal/Winter1997/roski.html
- Tobacco, Health and the Law - Syllabus, reading lists, and online reading materials for a course given at The University of Dayton Law School. Covers history; populations and demographics; proposed laws, regulation, and litation; tobacco and the third world countries.
www.udayton.edu/~health/syllabi/tobacco/index.htm
- Tobacco, public health, and public policy - Panel discussion at conference. Covers different health and policy aspects. Participants include Stan Glantz, Luanne Nyberg, and Bill Novelli.
www.ucop.edu/srphome/trdrp/Aim97/plenary.html
- Tobacco/Nicotine/Smoking-Publications - Health analysis of public policy and legislation.
www.library.ucsf.edu/kr/bin/showByTopic.pl?Tobacco/Nicotine/Smoking-Publications
- Toward a Tobacco Free California - Two extensive policy reports: A Model for Change: The California Experience in Tobacco Control (31 pages, pdf), and Toward A Tobacco Free California: Strategies for the 21st Century 2000-2003 (54 pages, pdf). Both outline tobacco control programs which are effective, and provide a basis for estimating the rate at which effective programs can reduce tobacco use.
www.dhs.ca.gov/tobacco
- Washingtonpost.com: Tobacco Politics and Policy - Collection of stories from the Washington Post on tobacco politics and policy.
www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/tobaccopoli.htm
- World No-Tobacco Day 1997 - Series of papers on tobacco control and public policy from a conference in 1997.
wwwlive.who.ch/archives/ntday/ntday97
- Curbing the Epidemic - Complete online book. "About 500 million people alive today will eventually be killed by tobacco use". Global Trends in Tobacco Use; The Health Consequences of Smoking; Do Smokers Know Their Risks and Bear Their Costs? Measures to Reduce the Demand for Tobacco; Measure to Reduce the Supply of Tobacco; The Costs and Consequences of Tobacco Control; An Agenda for Action.
www.globalink.org/tobacco/wb
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