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Reducing tobacco harm through research, training, communication and public policy.
http://www.tturc.umn.edu/
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Most Smokers Do Not View Themselves At Increased Risk for Health Problems
Contrary to assertions that "everyone knows", research finds that most smokers
underestimate the risk.
http://jama.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/abstract/281/11/1019
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Center for Tobacco Control Research and Education
Repository for scholarship published by the Center spanning policy and historical research,
economics, and science.
http://repositories.cdlib.org/ctcre/
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Tobacco Use in British Columbia
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.
http://www.healthplanning.gov.bc.ca/tobacrs/index.html
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Smoking and Tobacco Research Guide
Annotated bibliography; supplies links when cited source is online.
http://www.bu.edu/library/guides/smoke.html
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JAMA Tobacco
Recent papers published in the Journal of the American Medical Association on tobacco and related
topics.
http://jama.ama-assn.org/cgi/collection/tobacco
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TTURC Partners
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.
http://www.tturcpartners.com
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Tobacco-Related Disease Research Program
Supports research that focuses on the prevention, causes, and treatment of tobacco-related disease
and the reduction of the human and economic costs of tobacco use in California.
http://www.trdrp.org/
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The Institute for Global Tobacco Control at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
The Institute strives to prevent death and disease from tobacco use around the world through
research, education, evaluation, and policy development.
http://www.jhsph.edu/IGTC/index.html
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The Economic Consequences of Tobacco: Dispelling the Myths
Economist summarizes the research and dispells the myth that reduced smoking will cost jobs.
http://www1.worldbank.org/hnp/hsd/ViewPoint_Tobacco.asp
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Preventing Lung Cancer: Isolating the Tobacco Industry
Pamphlet from Cancer Research UK makes the case against accepting tobacco industry funding of
research.
http://science.cancerresearchuk.org/news/current/tobacconews?version=2
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The Young and the Breathless
Harvard Public Health Review article covers research being conducted on increasing tobacco use in
college students.
http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/review/review_winter_02/rsbreath.html
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Centre for Tobacco Research Control
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.
http://www.marketing.strath.ac.uk/ctcr/index.htm
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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.
http://www.ctcri.ca/
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The Impact of Tobacco Control Program Expenditures on Aggregate Cigarette Sales: 1981-1998
Econometric analyses of the impact of tobacco control expenditures on aggregate tobacco use show
that state tobacco control programs work.
http://www.nber.org/papers/w8691
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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.
http://today.uci.edu/news/release_detail.asp?key=284
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University of Vermont Office of Health Promotion Research
Citations and abstracts of research done at U Vermont on tobacco use prevention.
http://www.uvm.edu/~ohpr/smoke5.html
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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
industry marketing of health claims.
http://books.nap.edu/books/0309072824/html/index.html
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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.
http://www.roswellpark.org/epijournals/tobacco.html
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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.
http://www.nejm.org/content/2000/0343/0024/1772.asp
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Measuring National Tobacco Usage
Poster session from health conference focusses on stats: prevalence, demographics, longitudinal
groupings.
http://apha.confex.com/apha/128am/techprogram/session_3984.htm
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Special Populations and Tobacco
Poster session from recent conference looks at tobacco and ethnic minorities, low income Americans,
people with disabilities.
http://apha.confex.com/apha/128am/techprogram/session_3122.htm
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Psychosocial and Behavioral Factors in Tobacco
Poster session from health conference focuses on factors affecting tobacco use.
http://apha.confex.com/apha/128am/techprogram/session_3120.htm
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Monitoring the Tobacco Epidemic: Data Sources
Abstracts from conference presentations on measuring prevalence, demographics, and trends.
http://apha.confex.com/apha/128am/techprogram/session_1090.htm
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Tobacco Control Policy Research: Current Research Results
Abstracts of research articles on tobacco promotion, media, tobacco control, African American
populations, industry strategies, cigars.
http://itsa.ucsf.edu/~tobacco/results.htm
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Tobacco Control Archives Collections
List of archives of interest to researchers; hosted by UCSF. Some online.
http://galen.library.ucsf.edu/tobacco/tcacoll.html
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NIDA Notes - A Collection of Articles on Nicotine Addiction
About 12 items summarizing various research from 1995 to 2000.
http://www.nida.nih.gov/NIDA_Notes/NN0031.html
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Tobacco.RTI.Org
Evaluation and research of the American Legacy Foundation's programs.
http://tobacco.rti.org
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Monitoring and Evaluation Program
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.
http://www.medsch.wisc.edu/mep/
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Smoker's Misperceptions of Light and Ultra-light Cigarettes May Keep Them Smoking
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.
http://www-east.elsevier.com/ajpm/ajpm151/ajpm78ft.htm
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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.
http://www.nida.nih.gov/researchreports/nicotine/nicotine.html
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Mechanisms of Immune Suppression by Cigarette Smoke
Research aims to learn more about how cigarette smoke suppresses the immune system, ultimately
causing respiratory tract infections and cancer.
http://www.uchsc.edu/sm/cihl/smoking_research.htm
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Nicotine Perfectly Built for Addiction
Recent research concludes "it would be difficult to design a better drug to promote
addiction" than nicotine.
http://www.cbc.ca/stories/2002/03/13/nicotine020313
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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.
http://www.ctri.wisc.edu
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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."
http://www.millersv.edu/~opinion/smoke.htm
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International Tobacco Evidence Network
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.
http://www.tobaccoevidence.net/
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The Ontario Tobacco Research Unit
OTRU is the research component of the Ontario Tobacco Strategy, and is a focal point for an active
tobacco control research network in Ontario.
http://www.otru.org/
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Smokin' Mad
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.
http://www.drkoop.com/template.asp?page=newsdetail&ap=93&id=506273
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Study of Teen Risk Perception of Smoking
Study finds that the vast majority of smokers do not accurately assess the risk of smoking.
http://www.rwjf.org/reports/grr/037045.htm
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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.
http://www.nida.nih.gov/researchreports/nicotine/Nicotine.html
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Tobacco Control Policy Research
Conducts research on the formation of tobacco policy.
http://itsa.ucsf.edu/~tobacco/
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Research Funding From the Tobacco Industry
A public health association lays out the reasons for not accepting research funding from the
tobacco industry.
http://www.phaa.net.au/policy/NHMRC.htm
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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.
http://ssdc.ucsd.edu/tobacco/
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Tobacco and Smoking Research
Office of Tobacco Control, Canada, has links to numerous tobacco and smoking research documents.
http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/ehp/ehd/tobacco/research/index.htm
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Tobacco-Related Disease Research Program
Research funding opportunities; research progress reports; conference proceedings and publications;
newsletters; upcoming events.
http://www.ucop.edu/srphome/trdrp/welcome.html
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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.
http://tc.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/full/9/1/24
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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)".
http://www.nida.nih.gov/ttuc/tturchome.html
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Testing how much a person smokes (or is exposed to secondhand smoke)
Research from the UK, University of Birmingham
http://medweb.bham.ac.uk/research/cope.html
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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."
http://tc.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/full/8/1/37
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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; and intervention and treatment strategies.
http://www.nida.nih.gov/meetsum/nicotine/SummaryIndex.html
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Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco
Information on the latest research, abstracts, publications and events related to nicotine and
tobacco.
http://www.srnt.org
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