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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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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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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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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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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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Cancer Control and Population Sciences: Tobacco Control Research - http://cancercontrol.cancer.gov/tcrb/monographs/index.html
NCI monographs pull together research results on cigartetets, smoking, prevention, and related topics. |
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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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Tobacco Use Behavior Research - http://ssdc.ucsd.edu/tobacco/
Publications of the Social Sciences Data Collection, UCSD. Reports and raw data available on tobacco sales, prevalence, attitudes, behaviors, and media exposure. |
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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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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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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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TTURC Partners - http://www.tturcpartners.com
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. |
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Measuring National Tobacco Usage - http://apha.confex.com/apha/128am/techprogram/session_3984.htm
Poster session from health conference focusses on statistics: prevalence, demographics, longitudinal groupings. |
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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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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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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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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. |