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A Randomised Controlled Trial of a Community Prevention Campaign: 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.

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; an...

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.

Cancer Control and Population Sciences: Tobacco Control Research: NCI monographs pull together research results on cigartetets, smoking, prevention, and related topics.

Center for Tobacco Control Research and Education: Repository for scholarship published by the Center spanning policy and historical research, economics, and science.

Centre for Tobacco Control Research: Projects: Research reports on tobacco, the tobacco industry, smoking, cessation, tobacco marketing, media.

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.

Joe Un-Cool: UC Irvine press releases.

Measuring National Tobacco Usage: Poster session from health conference focusses on stats: prevalence, demographics, longitudinal groupings.

Mechanisms of Immune Suppression by Cigarette Smoke: Research aims to learn more about how cigarette smoke suppresses the immune system, ultimately causing respiratory tract infections and cancer.

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.

Monitoring the Tobacco Epidemic: Data Sources: Abstracts from conference presentations on measuring prevalence, demographics, and trends.

Most Smokers Do Not View Themselves At Increased Risk for Health Problems: Contrary to assertions that everyone knows, research finds that most smokers underestimate the risk.

New Test Helps Smokers Quit: Research from the UK, University of Birmingham

Nicotine Perfectly Built for Addiction: Recent research concludes it would be difficult to design a better drug to promote addiction than nicotine.

NIDA Notes - A Collection of Articles on Nicotine Addiction: About 12 items summarizing various research from 1995 to 2000.

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.

Psychosocial and Behavioral Factors in Tobacco: Poster session from health conference focuses on factors affecting tobacco use.

Research Funding From the Tobacco Industry: A public health association lays out the reasons for not accepting research funding from the tobacco industry.

Roswell Park Cancer Institute Journal Updates - Tobacco: Large set of research reports organized by the Institute on active and passive smoking, policy, cost, health effects, and the tobacco industry. Abstracts or full text available online for most.

ScienceWeek Symposium: Tobacco Dependence: Medical digest of recent scientific research on tobacco, public health, tobacco dependence, secondhand smoke, cigarette advertising, and tobacco control.

Smoker's Misperceptions of Light and Ultra-light Cigarettes May Keep Them Smoking: 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.

Smokin' Mad: Health News - Smokin' Mad

Smoking and Tobacco Research Guide: Annotated bibliography; supplies links when cited source is online.

Smoking Experimentation and Smoking-attributable Mortality due to Joe Camel and Marlboro advertising and promotions: Despite public denials, internal tobacco company documents indicate that adolescents have long been the target of cigarette advertising and promotional activities...(From this analysis) we projected how many future deaths in the United States can be attributed to each brand.

Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco: Information on the latest research, abstracts, publications and events related to nicotine and tobacco.

Special Populations and Tobacco: Poster session from recent conference looks at tobacco and ethnic minorities, low income Americans, people with disabilities.

Study of Teen Risk Perception of Smoking: Study finds that the vast majority of smokers do not accurately assess the risk of smoking.

The California Tobacco Control Program and Declines in Cigarette Consumption and Mortality from Heart Disease: The New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) is a weekly general medical journal that publishes new medical research findings, review articles, and editorial opinion on a wide variety of topics of importance to biomedical science and clinical practice.

The Economic Consequences of Tobacco: Dispelling the Myths: Economist summarizes the research and dispells the myth that reduced smoking will cost jobs.

The Impact of Tobacco Control Program Expenditures on Aggregate Cigarette Sales: 1981-1998: Econometric analyses of the impact of tobacco control expenditures on aggregate tobacco use show that state tobacco control programs work.

The Institute for Global Tobacco Control at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health: The mission of the Institute for Global Tobacco Control is to prevent disease and death from tobacco use around the world through research, education, and policy development.

The Ontario Tobacco Research Unit: The Ontario Tobacco Research Unit (OTRU) was established in 1993 with funding from the Ontario Ministry of Health to foster and conduct research, monitoring and evaluation contributing to programs and policies to eliminate tobacco-related health problems in Ontario.

The Young and the Breathless: Harvard Public Health Review article covers research being conducted on increasing tobacco use in college students.

Tobacco and Smoking Research: Tobacco homepage with links to news, facts, resources, research related to tobacco, smoking, health issues, quitting smoking, the tobacco industry, labelling, youth resources, legislation and government strategies

Tobacco Control Archives Collections: The paper and media collections include organizational records of agencies and activist groups, as well as papers of individuals active in tobacco control.

Tobacco Control Policy Research: Conducts research on the formation of tobacco policy.

Tobacco Control Policy Research: Current Research Results: Abstracts of research articles on tobacco promotion, media, tobacco control, African American populations, industry strategies, cigars.

Tobacco Research from Around the World: An International Perspective Poster Session: Abstracts from scientific publications presented at a 2002 health conference, discusses issues in Japan, Mexico, Pakistan, Banglandesh, France, Taiwan.

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.

Tobacco.RTI.Org: Research Triangle Institute's role is to develop and implement a comprehensive evaluation and research plan for the American Legacy Foundation; identify, obtain, and organize data from existing national, state and local sources; track behavior change and oversee the evaluation of Foundation-funde...

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 u...

TTURC Partners: TTURC-Transdisciplinary Tobacco Use Research Centers and Partners with Tobacco Use Research Centers (Partners) represent a federal/private partnership to study new ways of combating tobacco use and nicotine addiction

University of Minnesota Transdisciplinary Tobacco Use Research Center: The Transdisciplinary Tobacco Use Research Center provides information about the hazards of smoking.

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 p...