- 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
- 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/
- 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
- 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/
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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/
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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/
- 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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