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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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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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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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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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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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The Institute for Global Tobacco Control at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health - http://www.jhsph.edu/IGTC/index.html
The Institute strives to prevent death and disease from tobacco use around the world through research, education, evaluation, and policy development. |
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Cancer Control and Population Sciences: Tobacco Control Research - http://cancercontrol.cancer.gov/tcrb/monographs/index.html
NCI monographs pull together research results on cigarettes, smoking, prevention, and related topics. |
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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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JAMA Tobacco - http://jama.ama-assn.org/cgi/collection/tobacco
Recent papers published in the Journal of the American Medical Association on tobacco and related topics. |
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University of Minnesota Transdisciplinary Tobacco Use Research Center - http://www.tturc.umn.edu/
Reducing tobacco harm through research, training, communication and public policy. |
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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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Mechanisms of Immune Suppression by Cigarette Smoke - http://www.clinimmune.com/immunotoxicologylab/smokingresearch.htm
Research aims to learn more about how cigarette smoke suppresses the immune system, ultimately causing respiratory tract infections and cancer. |
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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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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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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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Smoking and Tobacco Research Guide - http://www.bu.edu/library/guides/smoke.html
Annotated bibliography; supplies links when cited source is online. |
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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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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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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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Centre for Tobacco Control Research: Projects - http://www.ctcr.stir.ac.uk/projects_index.htm
Research reports on tobacco, the tobacco industry, smoking, cessation, tobacco marketing, media. |
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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. |
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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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Most Smokers Do Not View Themselves At Increased Risk for Health Problems - http://jama.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/abstract/281/11/1019
Contrary to assertions that "everyone knows", research finds that most smokers underestimate the risk. |
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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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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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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. |