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- A Randomised Controlled Trial of a Community Prevention Campaign - 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.
tc.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/full/9/1/24
- Addicted to Nicotine - A National Research Forum - 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; prevention programs; individual differences; intervention and treatment strategies; and more.
www.nida.nih.gov/meetsum/nicotine/SummaryIndex.html
- Canadian Tobacco Research Initiative - 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 policies.
www.ncic.cancer.ca/ctri
- Clearing the Smoke: Assessing the Science Base for Tobacco Harm Reduction - 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 industtry marketing of health claims.
books.nap.edu/books/0309072824/html/index.html
- J. Health Communication - Research on: do cigarette warnings warn? influence of cigarette advertising on 7th graders.
www.aed.org/JHealthCom/V4/N2/up_front_v4n2.htm
- Joe Un-Cool - 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.
www.communications.uci.edu/97ucinews/970115j.html
- Measuring National Tobacco Usage - Poster session from health conference focusses on stats: prevalence, demographics, longitudinal groupings.
apha.confex.com/apha/128am/techprogram/session_3984.htm
- Monitoring the Tobacco Epidemic: Data Sources - Abstracts from conference presentations on measuring prevalence, demographics, and trends.
apha.confex.com/apha/128am/techprogram/session_1090.htm
- Most Smokers Do Not View Themselves At Increased Risk for hleath Problems - Recent research finds that most smokers underestimate the risk.
www.ama-assn.org/sci-pubs/sci-news/1999/snr0317.htm#jbr90005
- Nicotine Perfectly Built for Addiction - Recent research concludes "it would be difficult to design a better drug to promote addiction" than nicotine.
www.cbc.ca/stories/2002/03/13/nicotine020313
- NIDA Notes - A Collection of Articles on Nicotine Addiction - About 12 items summarizing various research from 1995 to 2000.
www.nida.nih.gov/NIDA_Notes/NN0031.html
- NIDA Research Report - Nicotine Addiction - Summary of research findings on the drug, its effects, the extent and impact of tobacco use, mechanisms, medical consequences, treatment.
www.nida.nih.gov/researchreports/nicotine/Nicotine.html
- NIDA Research Report - Nicotine 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.
www.nida.nih.gov/researchreports/nicotine/nicotine.html
- Psychosocial and Behavioral Factors in Tobacco - Poster session from health conference focuses on factors affecting tobacco use.
apha.confex.com/apha/128am/techprogram/session_3120.htm
- Research Funding From the Tobacco Industry - A public health association lays out the reasons for not accepting research funding from the tobacco industry.
www.phaa.net.au/policy/NHMRC.htm
- Roswell Park Cancer Institute Journal Updates - 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.
www.roswellpark.org/epijournals/tobacco.html
- Smoker Perceptions of Light and Ultralight Cigarettes - Research finds that many Light and Ultra-light smokers are unaware that these cigarettes can give the same amount of tar and nicotine as regular cigarettes and concludes "mistaken beliefs about low-yield brands are reducing intensions to quit smoking."
www.millersv.edu/~opinion/smoke.htm
- Smoker's Misperceptions of Light and Ultra-light Cigarettes Mak Keep Them Smoikng - 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.
www-east.elsevier.com/ajpm/ajpm151/ajpm78ft.htm
- Smoking and Tobacco Research Guide - Annotated bibliography; supplies links when cited source is online.
www.bu.edu/library/research-guides/smoke.html
- Smoking Experimentation and Smoking-attributable Mortality due to Joe Camel and Marlboro advertising and promotions - "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."
tc.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/full/8/1/37
- Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco - Information on the latest research, abstracts, publications and events related to nicotine and tobacco.
www.srnt.org
- Special Populations and Tobacco - Poster session from recent conference looks at tobacco and ethnic minorities, low income Americans, people with disabilities.
apha.confex.com/apha/128am/techprogram/session_3122.htm
- Study of Teen Risk Perception of Smoking - Study finds that the vast majority of smokers do not accurately assess the risk of smoking.
www.rwjf.org/reports/grr/037045.htm
- Testing how much a person smokes (or is exposed to secondhand smoke) - Research from the UK, University of Birmingham
medweb.bham.ac.uk/research/cope.html
- The California Tobacco Control Program and Declines in Cigarette Consumption and Mortality from Heart Disease - 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.
www.nejm.org/content/2000/0343/0024/1772.asp
- Tobacco and Smoking Research - Office of Tobacco Control, Canada, has links to numerous tobacco and smoking research documents.
www.hc-sc.gc.ca/ehp/ehd/tobacco/research/index.htm
- Tobacco Control Archives Collections - List of archives of interest to researchers; hosted by UCSF. Some online.
galen.library.ucsf.edu/tobacco/tcacoll.html
- Tobacco Control Policy Research - Conducts research on the formation of tobacco policy.
itsa.ucsf.edu/~tobacco
- Tobacco Control Policy Research: Current Research Results - Abstracts of research articles on tobacco promotion, media, tobacco control, African American populations, industry strategies, cigars.
itsa.ucsf.edu/~tobacco/results.htm
- Tobacco Use Behavior Research - Publications of the Social Sciences Data Collection, UCSD. Reports and raw data available on tobacco sales, prevalence, attitudes, behaviors, and media exposure.
ssdc.ucsd.edu/tobacco
- Tobacco-Related Disease Research Program - Research funding opportunities; research progress reports; conference proceedings and publications; newsletters; upcoming events.
www.ucop.edu/srphome/trdrp/welcome.html
- Transdisciplinary Tobacco Use Research Centers - "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 for the creation of transdisciplinary tobacco use research centers (TTURCs)".
www.nida.nih.gov/ttuc/tturchome.html
- University of Vermont Office of Health Promotion Research - Citations and abstracts of research done at U Vermont on tobacco use prevention.
www.uvm.edu/~ohpr/smoke5.html
- UW - Center for Tobacco Research and Intervention - 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.
www.ctri.wisc.edu
- Tobacco Control Online - Quarterly scientific journal launched in 1992 to consider all aspects of tobacco prevention and control. Publishes research on: evaluation of smoking prevention and cessation programs; tracking and evaluation of tobacco control policies and legislation; epidemiologic and behavior research on tobacco use; health effects of smoking, smoking cessation, passive smoking and spit tobacco.
www.tobaccocontrol.com
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