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Tobacco-Related Disease Research Program - http://www.trdrp.org/
Research funding opportunities; research progress reports; conference proceedings and publications; newsletters; upcoming events. |
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Tobacco and Smoking Research - http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/hl-vs/tobac-tabac/index_e.html
Office of Tobacco Control, Canada, has links to numerous tobacco and smoking research documents. |
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NIDA Research Report - Nicotine Addiction - http://www.nida.nih.gov/researchreports/nicotine/nicotine.html
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. |
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Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco - http://www.srnt.org
Information on the latest research, abstracts, publications and events related to nicotine and tobacco. |
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The Ontario Tobacco Research Unit - http://www.otru.org/
OTRU is the research component of the Ontario Tobacco Strategy, and is a focal point for an active tobacco control research network in Ontario. |
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UW - Center for Tobacco Research and Intervention - http://www.ctri.wisc.edu
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. |
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Canadian Tobacco Research Initiative - http://www.ctcri.ca/
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. |
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NIDA Notes - A Collection of Articles on Nicotine Addiction - http://www.nida.nih.gov/NIDA_Notes/NN0031.html
About 12 items summarizing various research from 1995 to 2000. |
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Center for Tobacco Control Research and Education - http://repositories.cdlib.org/ctcre/
Repository for scholarship published by the Center spanning policy and historical research, economics, and science. |
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Transdisciplinary Tobacco Use Research Centers - http://www.nida.nih.gov/ttuc/tturchome.html
"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)". |
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Centre for Tobacco Research Control - http://www.ctcr.stir.ac.uk/
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. |
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Tobacco Use in British Columbia - http://www.healthservices.gov.bc.ca/tobacrs/index.html
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. |
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International Tobacco Evidence Network - http://www.tobaccoevidence.net/
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. |
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Clearing the Smoke: Assessing the Science Base for Tobacco Harm Reduction - http://books.nap.edu/books/0309072824/html/index.html
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. |
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Monitoring and Evaluation Program - http://www.medsch.wisc.edu/mep/
Monitors trends in tobacco use in Wisconsin, evaluates statewide programs and policies, and assists local communities in program evaluation and communicating findings to state and local leaders. |
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The Young and the Breathless - http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/review/review_winter_02/rsbreath.html
Harvard Public Health Review article covers research being conducted on increasing tobacco use in college students. |
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Study of Teen Risk Perception of Smoking - http://www.rwjf.org/reports/grr/037045.htm
Study finds that the vast majority of smokers do not accurately assess the risk of smoking. |
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A Randomised Controlled Trial of a Community Prevention Campaign - http://tc.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/full/9/1/24
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. |
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Tobacco Research from Around the World: An International Perspective Poster Session - http://apha.confex.com/apha/130am/techprogram/session_8742.htm
Abstracts from scientific publications presented at a 2002 health conference, discusses issues in Japan, Mexico, Pakistan, Banglandesh, France, Taiwan. |
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ScienceWeek Symposium: Tobacco Dependence - http://scienceweek.com/2003/sw030411.htm
Medical digest of recent scientific research on tobacco, public health, tobacco dependence, secondhand smoke, cigarette advertising, and tobacco control. |
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Nicotine Perfectly Built for Addiction - http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2002/03/13/nicotine020313.html
Recent research concludes "it would be difficult to design a better drug to promote addiction" than nicotine. |
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The Economic Consequences of Tobacco: Dispelling the Myths - http://www1.worldbank.org/hnp/hsd/ViewPoint_Tobacco.asp
Economist summarizes the research and dispells the myth that reduced smoking will cost jobs. |
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The Impact of Tobacco Control Program Expenditures on Aggregate Cigarette Sales: 1981-1998 - http://www.nber.org/papers/w8691
Econometric analyses of the impact of tobacco control expenditures on aggregate tobacco use show that state tobacco control programs work. |
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Joe Un-Cool - http://today.uci.edu/news/release_detail.asp?key=284
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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Measuring National Tobacco Usage - http://apha.confex.com/apha/128am/techprogram/session_3984.htm
Poster session from health conference focuses on statistics: prevalence, demographics, longitudinal groupings. |
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Special Populations and Tobacco - http://apha.confex.com/apha/128am/techprogram/session_3122.htm
Poster session from recent conference looks at tobacco and ethnic minorities, low income Americans, people with disabilities. |
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Monitoring the Tobacco Epidemic: Data Sources - http://apha.confex.com/apha/128am/techprogram/session_1090.htm
Abstracts from conference presentations on measuring prevalence, demographics, and trends. |
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Tobacco Control Archives Collections - http://galen.library.ucsf.edu/tobacco/tcacoll.html
List of archives of interest to researchers; hosted by UCSF. Some online. |
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Smoker's Misperceptions of Light and Ultra-light Cigarettes May Keep Them Smoking - http://www-east.elsevier.com/ajpm/ajpm151/ajpm78ft.htm
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. |
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Addicted to Nicotine - A National Research Forum - http://www.nida.nih.gov/meetsum/nicotine/SummaryIndex.html
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. |