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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
JAMA Tobacco - Recent papers published in the Journal of the American Medical Association on tobacco and related topics.
Measuring National Tobacco Usage - Poster session from health conference focusses on statistics: prevalence, demographics, longitudinal groupings.
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.
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.
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.
Special Populations and Tobacco - Poster session from recent conference looks at tobacco and ethnic minorities, low income Americans, people with disabilities.
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.
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.
Tobacco-Related Disease Research Program - Research funding opportunities; research progress reports; conference proceedings and publications; newsletters; upcoming events.
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)".
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.
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.
The Young and the Breathless - Harvard Public Health Review article covers research being conducted on increasing tobacco use in college students.
ScienceWeek Symposium: Tobacco Dependence - Medical digest of recent scientific research on tobacco, public health, tobacco dependence, secondhand smoke, cigarette advertising, and tobacco control.
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.
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