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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
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Cancer Control and Population Sciences: Tobacco Control Research
NCI monographs pull together research results on cigartetets, smoking, prevention, and related topics.
http://cancercontrol.cancer.gov/tcrb/monographs/index.html
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Center for Tobacco Control Research and Education
Repository for scholarship published by the Center spanning policy and historical research, economics, and science.
http://repositories.cdlib.org/ctcre/
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Centre for Tobacco Control Research: Projects
Research reports on tobacco, the tobacco industry, smoking, cessation, tobacco marketing, media.
http://www.ctcr.stir.ac.uk/projects_index.htm
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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.ctcr.stir.ac.uk/
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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/
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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
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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
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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
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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.
http://www.clinimmune.com/immunotoxicologylab/smokingresearch.htm
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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/
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Monitoring the Tobacco Epidemic: Data Sources
Abstracts from conference presentations on measuring prevalence, demographics, and trends.
http://apha.confex.com/apha/128am/techprogram/session_1090.htm
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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.
http://jama.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/abstract/281/11/1019
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NIDA Notes - A Collection of Articles on Nicotine Addiction
About 12 items summarizing various research from 1995 to 2000.
http://www.nida.nih.gov/NIDA_Notes/NN0031.html
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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
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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
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Psychosocial and Behavioral Factors in Tobacco
Poster session from health conference focuses on factors affecting tobacco use.
http://apha.confex.com/apha/128am/techprogram/session_3120.htm
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ScienceWeek Symposium: Tobacco Dependence
Medical digest of recent scientific research on tobacco, public health, tobacco dependence, secondhand smoke, cigarette advertising, and tobacco control.
http://scienceweek.com/2003/sw030411.htm
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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.
http://www-east.elsevier.com/ajpm/ajpm151/ajpm78ft.htm
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Smoking and Tobacco Research Guide
Annotated bibliography; supplies links when cited source is online.
http://www.bu.edu/library/guides/smoke.html
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Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco
Information on the latest research, abstracts, publications and events related to nicotine and tobacco.
http://www.srnt.org
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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
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Study of Teen Risk Perception of Smoking
Study finds that the vast majority of smokers do not accurately assess the risk of smoking.
http://www.rwjf.org/reports/grr/037045.htm
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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.
http://www.nber.org/papers/w8691
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The Institute for Global Tobacco Control at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
The Institute strives to prevent death and disease from tobacco use around the world through research, education, evaluation, and policy development.
http://www.jhsph.edu/IGTC/index.html
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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/
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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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Tobacco and Smoking Research
Office of Tobacco Control, Canada, has links to numerous tobacco and smoking research documents.
http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/hl-vs/tobac-tabac/index_e.html
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Tobacco Control Archives Collections
List of archives of interest to researchers; hosted by UCSF. Some online.
http://galen.library.ucsf.edu/tobacco/tcacoll.html
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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.
http://apha.confex.com/apha/130am/techprogram/session_8742.htm
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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.
http://ssdc.ucsd.edu/tobacco/
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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.
http://www.healthservices.gov.bc.ca/tobacrs/index.html
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Tobacco-Related Disease Research Program
Research funding opportunities; research progress reports; conference proceedings and publications; newsletters; upcoming events.
http://www.trdrp.org/
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TTURC Partners
A seven university, collaborative effort to study new ways of combating tobacco use and nicotine addiction, and translate the results and implications of this work for policy makers, practitioners, and the public.
http://www.tturcpartners.com
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University of Minnesota Transdisciplinary Tobacco Use Research Center
Reducing tobacco harm through research, training, communication and public policy.
http://www.tturc.umn.edu/
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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 participation, grant opportunities, latest research findings.
http://www.ctri.wisc.edu
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