Tobacco Control Resources

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.
http://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.
http://canadalife.buildingbetterhealth.com/topic/casmoking

Case Studies in Tobacco Control Policy Development

Abstracts from conference presentations.
http://apha.confex.com/apha/128am/techprogram/session_1443.htm

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.
http://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.
http://www.ceche.org/publications/factshts/fctshts.htm

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
http://www.globalink.org/tobacco/wb/

Death and Tobacco Taxes

Health and economic analysis concludes that a 10% increase in tobacco tax would save over 5,000 lives a year.
http://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.
http://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.
http://www1.worldbank.org/tobacco/

Final Report of The Advisory Committee on Tobacco Policy and Public HealthAction on Smoking and Health (ASH)

The Koop-Kessler report, nicely HTML-ized.
http://ash.org/report2.html

Florida Tobacco Control Clearinghouse

A one-stop shop for tobacco resources/news related to control, prevention, and cessation.
http://www.ftcc.fsu.edu

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

Online 300 page book.
http://stills.nap.edu/openbook/0309072824/html/

The Communication Initiative - Communication Interventions

Numerous papers and summary introductions to programs on smoking and health worldwide.
http://www.comminit.com/

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.
http://www.cnie.org/NLE/CRSreports/Agriculture/ag-72.cfm

Health Behavior Research Group

University of Waterloo, Canada, research group; features papers and summaries of ongoing projects in tobacco use reduction, public policy, enabling communities to plan smoking reduction, improving cessation outcomes, and measuring and assessing progress i
http://www.ahs.uwaterloo.ca/~hbr/

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
http://nasw.org/users/holtza/tob_links.htm

How to Fight Big Tobacco and Win

Describes anti-tobacco programs in California, Minnesota, and Massachusetts.
http://www.ahealthyme.com/topic/bigtobacco

The Impact of the 1997 Tobacco Tax Increase on Cigarette Consumption in Alaska

Graphs consumption; measures price elasticity.
http://health.hss.state.ak.us/dph/PDFs/tobacco_report_final.pdf

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.
http://apha.confex.com/apha/128am/techprogram/session_3965.htm

International Tobacco Control Poster Session

Health conference features policy analysis, program evaluation, and presentation of innovative programs.
http://apha.confex.com/apha/128am/techprogram/session_3117.htm

Investment In Tobacco Control State Highlights 2001

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention release of a report on state investments into public health programs to decrease the prevalence of tobacco use.
http://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/statehi/statehi_2001.htm

IPF 2003 - Tobacco Economics Research and Advocacy

Policy research in Romania seeks to analyse the factors affecting tobacco consumption in that country.
http://www.policy.hu/radu

Ireland Sub-Committee on Health and Smoking

Committee in the Parliament of Ireland held in 2001 three days of hearings on the effects of smoking on Ireland; transcripts here.
http://www.irlgov.ie/Committees-01/c-health/HealthandSmoking/

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.
http://judiciary.senate.gov/oldsite/garrison.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.
http://www.law.berkeley.edu/institutes/csj/Tobacarchive.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 political interference; a broad-based focus rather than one exclusively tragetting children.
http://www.advocacy.org/publications/mtc/counterads.htm

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
http://www.tobacco.neu.edu/tobacco_control/resources/msa/index.html

National and State Tobacco Policy and Program Evaluation

Programs in New York, Florida, California, and nationally in the U.S.
http://apha.confex.com/apha/128am/techprogram/session_3323.htm

The Norwegian ban on Advertising of Tobacco Products -- Has it Worked?

Careful analysis of consumption and prevalence rates, among different populations and in general.
http://www.kreft.no//english/norwegianbanontobaccoadvertisment/

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.
http://www.ucsf.edu/daybreak/1999/02/16_glantz.html

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.
http://views.vcu.edu/cpdd/policy/tobacco.html

The Political and Ethical Responsibility of the Physician in Controlling the Tobacco Epidemic

Editorial from the European Respiratory Society explores what physicians can and should do to combat tobacco use.
http://www.personal.u-net.com/~ersj/Newsletter/newsletter_2.htm

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.
http://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.
http://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.
http://www.citizen.org/congress/civjus/prod_liability/tobacco/

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.
http://www.library.ucsf.edu/tobacco/ustl/

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.
http://www.no-smoke.org/youth3.html

Review of Smoking Prevention and Control Strategies

Review of measured results of different prevention and tobacco control strategies.
http://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.
http://leiss.ca/articles/60

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.
http://tgorski.com/news_analysis/nicotine_addiction_Henningfield_010629.htm

Smoke Free Europe - A Forum for Networks

October 1996 conference in Helsinki.
http://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.
http://www.smokefreefamilies.org/

Smoking - Dohányzás

Smoking at the threshold of the year 2000: situation report on Hungary.
http://www.globalink.org/tobacco/hungary/

Smoking is a Major Cause of Blindness

Editorial in a health journal considers the scientific and policy merits of a new pack warning.
http://www.mja.com.au/public/issues/171_4_160899/mitchell/mitchell.html

Smoking Is Not The Answer

Short student film promoting non-smoking. Available in QuickTime or RealPlayer format [Flash required].
http://whydoyousmoke.tripod.com

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.
http://www.ktl.fi/enypat/data/smokeprev_eu.htm

Smoking Set to Kill Millions in China

Researchers find a rapid rise in tobacco use in China, where half the smokers surveyed do not know it causes cancer.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/466401.stm

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.
http://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.
http://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 treatme
http://books.nap.edu/html/state_tobacco/

State System

CDC report provides demographics of cigarette usage in each state.
http://www2.cdc.gov/nccdphp/osh/state/

Study: Two-pronged effort can cut smoking deaths by 40%

Purdue study on smoking prevention.
http://www.purdue.edu/UNS/html4ever/960802.Anderson.study.html

Taking Action to Reduce Tobacco Use

1998 NRC report. Organized into different policy recommendations.
http://www.nap.edu/readingroom/books/tobacco/

Tobacco

Opinions about the campaign to prevent teen smoking, the tax on tobacco and the tobacco settlements.
http://www.geocities.com/tinker1046/three.html

Tobacco: A Global Killer

Short factsheet outlines and provides examples of massive tobacco promotion around the globe, and summarizes the consequences.
http://tobaccofreekids.org/campaign/global/pdf/globalkiller.pdf

Tobacco: A Legal and Policy Issue of the Elderly

Policy paper examines impact of tobacco on older people: addiction, secondhand smoke, smoking cessation and health care coverage, smokefree environments for children and grandchildren.
http://www.tcsg.org/sfelp/clearinghouse.htm

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.
http://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.
http://www.lgreen.net/hpp/appendix.htm

Tobacco Control in Arizona: A Roundtable

Summary of recent experiences and results in programs to reduce tobacco use.
http://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.
http://ssdc.ucsd.edu/tobacco/reports/

Tobacco Control In Canada

Canadian experience and skills in smoking prevention and cessation.
http://www.cpha.ca/english/intprog/tobacco.htm

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.
http://hsc.unm.edu/epiccpro/jailtitle.html

Tobacco Control Policy Briefing Papers

Papers from the Advocacy Institute on preemption; treating tobacco dependence; counter advertising; secondhand smoke; youth access; special populations.
http://www.advocacy.org/publications/mtc/index.htm

Tobacco Control Policy Research

Research monographs released by the University of Massachusetts; covers policy making, how money gets spent, local control, tax battles, winning against the tobacco industry and its allies.
http://www.umass.edu/sphhs/chs/tobacco/

Tobacco Control Resource Center

Information on tobacco products and manufacturer liability from Northeastern University School of Law in Boston
http://www.tobacco.neu.edu/

Tobacco Death Toll

1993 World Bank policy paper: magnitude of the problem; economic costs; what can be done; policy recommendations.
http://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.
http://www.who.int/inf-fs/en/fact154.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.
http://www.udayton.edu/~health/syllabi/tobacco/index.htm

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.
http://www.rwjf.org/app/rw_publications_and_links/publicationsPdfs/library/oldhealth/anth298.htm

Tobacco Profile for Denmark

Summary of smoking and tobacco stats.
http://www.globalink.org/tobacco/docs/eu-docs/denmark

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.
http://www.ucop.edu/srphome/trdrp/Aim97/plenary.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.
http://www.nysmokefree.com/LocalLaws.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.
http://www.who.dk/eprise/main/WHO/Progs/TOB/Home

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 a
http://www.dhs.ca.gov/tobacco/

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