A Public Health Analysis of the Proposed Resolution of the United States Tobacco Litigation - Institute for Health Policy Studies of the University of California assembles a complete analysis of the proposed 1997 resolution that weighs and measures its impact on health.

A tobacco-free Europe - Publications, factsheets, and reports compiled by WHO and other organizations on the effects and trends of tobacco use in Europe.

404 Australia National Tobacco Strategy - Aims to improve the health of all Australians by eliminating or reducing their exposure to tobacco in all its forms. Papers on policy approach, tobacco harm minimization, restrictions on marketing, taxation, education, passive smoking, cigarette ingredient disclosure.

404 California Tobacco Policy Experience - Papers and factsheets on adult smoking trends in California; California's tobacco education media campaign; do doctors advise their smoker patients to quit smoking; the response of Californians to secondhand smoke; youth smoking trends in California.
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California's Anti-Tobacco Campaign Sees Fewer Lung Cancer Deaths - Nursing Week article discusses a payoff of California's anti-tobacco campaign: fewer lung cancer and bronchial cancer deaths.

California's Anti-Tobacco Media Campaign - Article on California's anti-smoking ads, what works, and how to have impact with a fraction of the money that the industry spends promoting tobacco.
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Case Studies in Tobacco Control Policy Development - Abstracts from conference presentations.

CDC confirms tough anti-tobacco campaigns reduce smoking rates - The federal government says tough anti-smoking campaigns have been successful in several states.
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CDC Releases Data on Smoking Prevalence, Attitudes - Prevalence ranged from 12% to 30 in 2000; high levels of public support were found - even among smokers - for smoke-free policies.
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CECHE Tobacco Policy Fact Sheets - Set of short papers from CECHE, a private nonprofit health policy organization. Addresses US policy that affects international tobacco use; tobacco advertising and promotion; women and tobacco; smuggling.

Country Case Studies - Examines China, Mexico, Viet Nam, Russia, Romania, Poland, Senegal, South Africa.

CRS Report: Tobacco Control: Enforcement and Effectiveness of Federal and State Youth Access Laws - Report examines effectiveness of youth access as a tobacco control strategy.

Curbing the Epidemic - Complete online book. About 500 million people alive today will eventually be killed by tobacco use. Global Trends in Tobacco Use; The Health Consequences of Smoking; Do Smokers Know Their Risks and Bear Their Costs? Measures to Reduce the Demand for Tobacco; Measure to Reduce the Supply of Tobacco; The Costs and Consequences of Tobacco Control; An Agenda for Action.

Death and Tobacco Taxes - Health and economic analysis concludes that a 10% increase in tobacco tax would save over 5,000 lives a year.

Do Workplace Smoking Bans Reduce Smoking? - Economic research examines the effect of smokefree workplaces on tobacco product consumption.

Final Report of The Advisory Committee on Tobacco Policy and Public HealthAction on Smoking and Health (ASH) - The Koop-Kessler report, nicely HTML-ized.

Florida Tobacco Control Clearinghouse - A one-stop shop for tobacco resources/news related to control, prevention, and cessation.
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404 Health Behavior Research Group - University of Waterloo, Canada, research group; features papers and summaries of ongoing projects in tobacco use reduction, public policy, enabling communities to plan smoking reduction, improving cessation outcomes, and measuring and assessing progress in tobacco use reduction.

HoltzReport: Tobacco Control - Index of and links to tobacco control stories and research by independent journalist Andrew Holtz, former CNN Medical Correspondent and Kaiser Family Foundation Media Fellow. Includes analyses of the Truth campaign in Florida and the ballot campaign that raised the tobacco tax in Oregon. Also, links to NPR archives and other information on tobacco issues.
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How to Fight Big Tobacco and Win - Describes anti-tobacco programs in California, Minnesota, and Massachusetts.
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Impacts on Tobacco Use and Policy - Poster session from health conference: cigar smoking among college students, engaging youth in tobacco control activities, and developing health warning messages.

In Memory of James Beattie Morison M.D. - Includes three papers Dr. Morison wrote on smoking in Canadian children, 1960 through 1982.
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Inside Indonesia: Worshipping cancer sticks - News article reports the tobacco industry keeps the government afloat, but at a huge cost in ordinary lives.
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International Tobacco Control Poster Session - Health conference features policy analysis, program evaluation, and presentation of innovative programs.

404 Investment In Tobacco Control State Highlights 2001 - The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention release of a report on state investments into public health programs to decrease the prevalence of tobacco use.
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IPF 2003 - Tobacco Economics Research and Advocacy - Policy research in Romania seeks to analyse the factors affecting tobacco consumption in that country.

Ireland Sub-Committee on Health and Smoking - Committee in the Parliament of Ireland held in 2001 three days of hearings on the effects of smoking on Ireland; transcripts here.

John R. Garrison address to the Senate - 1998 testminony of John Garrison, President of the American Lung Association, to the U.S. Senate Committee on Judiciary; outlines tobacco facts and related public policy aims and means.

Koop-Kessler Report on Tobacco Policy and Public Health. - Facts, findings, and recommendations on regulatory policy, research policy, public education, youth and tobacco, performance objectives, current users of tobacco products, secondhand smoke, and future of the tobacco industry and of tobacco control efforts.

Litigation and Public Health Policy Making: The Case of Tobacco Control - Journal article examines the arguments for and against using litigation as a policy tool, with specifics drawn from tobacco control.
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Making the Case: Counter Advertising as a Tobacco Use Deterrent - Counter advertising can be effective, but its effectiveness depends on factors such as adequate, long term funding; ability to administer the campaign from political interference; a broad-based focus rather than one exclusively tragetting children.

Motorsport Sponsorship as a Vehicle for Tobacco Prevention - Paper presented at a conference on social marketing analyses the effectiveness of an innovative tobacco prevention program: sponsoring a race car.

National and State Tobacco Policy and Program Evaluation - Programs in New York, Florida, California, and nationally in the U.S.

New Canadian Tobacco Package Warnings Effective - Research shows the new graphic Canadian cigarette warnings are effective.
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Only Aggressive Anti-Smoking Ad Campaigns Succeed - UCSF research analyses anti-smoking campaigns, concludes that only aggressive ad campaigns backed by public health advocates succeed.

404 Policy on Nicotine and Tobacco - Short policy statement from Virginia Commonwealth University outlines College on Problems of Drug Dependence position on nicotine and tobacco use.

Position Statement on Tobacco on College and University Campuses - American College Health Associations outlines a recommended policy for college campuses, aiming at providing smokefree environments and achieving tobacco use reduction.

Presentation by Dr. Fenton Howell, Irish Medical Organisation. - Presentation made to the Joint Committee on health and CHildren of the Houses of the Oireachtas, Parliament of Ireland, on tobacco and health.

Public Citizen: Tobacco Policy Papers - Discussion and analysis of tobacco policy options including litigation, legislation, regulation, and deals with the industry; focus is on the proposed deal of 1997.

Restricting Youth Access to Tobacco: Does it Reduce Youth Tobacco Consumption? - Summary of the research by ANR concludes the evidence is poor that youth access strategies are effective in reducing consumption.
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Review of Smoking Prevention and Control Strategies - Review of measured results of different prevention and tobacco control strategies.

404 Risk Perception and Communication: Environmental Tobacco Smoke and Child Health - Tobacco use and ETS issues present a significant challenge to conventional notions of risk communication. Conventional forms of message delivery, have failed utterly in the case of tobacco use. Paper examines this quandry.

Scientific Basis for Various Regulatory Aapproaches for Tobacco - Testimony by Dr. Jack Henningfield on the health effects of tobacco and the scientific basis for various regulatory approaches.

404 Second Conference on the Regulation of Tobacco Dependence Treatment Products: Conclusions - Major conclusions: treatment works, treatment is cost effective, treatment is essential to reducing the death toll. Conference of WHO Europe.

Smoke Free Europe - A Forum for Networks - October 1996 conference in Helsinki.

Smoke-Free Families - Innovations to stop smoking during and beyond pregnancy: a new national partnership that can dramatically improve the health of mothers and their babies, while saving lives and cutting health care costs.

Smoking - Dohányzás - Smoking at the threshold of the year 2000: situation report on Hungary.
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Smoking Cessation is Cost Effective - Research published in the Journal of the American Medical Association finds that smoking cessation programs are cost-effective.
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Smoking is a Major Cause of Blindness - Editorial in a health journal considers the scientific and policy merits of a new pack warning.

Smoking Is Not The Answer - Short student film promoting non-smoking. Available in QuickTime or RealPlayer format [Flash required].

Smoking Set to Kill Millions in China - Researchers find a rapid rise in tobacco use in China, where half the smokers surveyed do not know it causes cancer.
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Social Climate of Tobacco Control - Report from the Social Science Research Center at Mississippi State University; covers tobacco control in Mississippi and in America; youth and adult smoking prevalence trends.

Speakers Kit: Tobacco Control Presentations - Presentation-ready slides from the American College of Chest Physicians; includes presentations on Women and Girls, Tobacco and Lung Cancer, Diagnosis and Management of Lung Cnacer, and editions for Asia, the Indian Subcontinent, and African Americans.

State and Local Tobacco Control Programs and Evaluation - Poster session from health conference examines a number of programs focusing on the community or local level.

State Programs Can Reduce Tobacco Use - National Cancer Policy Board report. Report covers: what is the evidence that state programs make a difference? counteradvertising and education; establishing smokefree workplaces and public spaces; increasing prices through taxation; supporting treatment programs for tobacco dependence; reinforcing youth access restrictions; monitoring performance and evaluating programs.

State System - CDC report provides demographics of cigarette usage in each state.
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State's Antismoking Ads Working, But So Are Prosmoking Ads - Research finds that antismoking ads from health groups do decrease smoking, but prosmoking ads from cigarette companies likewise increase smoking.

404 Study: Two-pronged effort can cut smoking deaths by 40% - Purdue study on smoking prevention.

Taking Action to Reduce Tobacco Use - 1998 NRC report. Organized into different policy recommendations.

Testimony on Smoking Cessation - Other than immunization, smoking cessation is the most cost-effective prevention intervention for adults

The Communication Initiative - Communication Interventions - Numerous papers and summary introductions to programs on smoking and health worldwide.
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The Epidemiology of Smoking in Ukraine - Slides from a college lecture reporting the results of a cross sectional survey undertaken in 2000.

The Impact of the 1997 Tobacco Tax Increase on Cigarette Consumption in Alaska - Graphs consumption; measures price elasticity.

500 The Master Settlement Agreement and the Future of State and Local Tobacco Control - Paper provides a legal and public policy analysis of selected topics and provisions of the multistate Master Settlement Agreement of November 23, 1998, including effects on other legal actions, tobacco advertising, youth access, lobbying, and the national foundation.

The Norwegian ban on Advertising of Tobacco Products -- Has it Worked? - Careful analysis of consumption and prevalence rates, among different populations and in general.

The Opium Wars of the 21st Century: Tobacco and the Developing World - The struggle against tobacco is not being won, it is being relocated. The tobacco wars of the next century will increasingly be waged among vulnerable populations ill equipped to cope with the slick marketing techniques and the dirty tricks perfected by the tobacco industry.

The Political and Ethical Responsibility of the Physician in Controlling the Tobacco Epidemic - Editorial from the European Respiratory Society explores what physicians can and should do to combat tobacco use.

Tobacco control advocates must demand high-quality media campaigns: the California experience - Paper based on media research and analysis of California's tobacco education campaign. Everyone asks what works in anti-smoking education: here are answers.

Tobacco Control and the Precede-Proceed Model - Follows a single issue, tobacco control, through the phases of the Precede-Proceed model of health promotion.

Tobacco Control Archives - is a central, organized source of information on tobacco. Its purpose is to collect, preserve, and provide access to papers, unpublished documents and electronic resources relevant to tobacco control issues primarily in California.
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Tobacco Control Archives - Collection of papers, unpublished documents, and electronic resources relevant to tobacco control issues. Provided by the University of California, San Francisco.
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Tobacco Control in Arizona: A Roundtable - Summary of recent experiences and results in programs to reduce tobacco use.

Tobacco Control in California: Who's Winning the War - Tobacco Use Behavior Research, Cancer Prevention and Control Program, University of California, San Diego. Overview, analysis, and evaluation of what causes smoking and what's effective in prevention and cessation.

Tobacco Control In Canada - Canadian experience and skills in smoking prevention and cessation.

Tobacco Control Policy Briefing Papers - Papers from the Advocacy Institute on preemption; treating tobacco dependence; counter advertising; secondhand smoke; youth access; special populations.

404 Tobacco Control Policy Research - Research monographs released by the University of Massachusetts; covers policy making, how money gets spent, local control, tax battles, winning against the tobacco industry and its allies.

500 Tobacco Control Resource Center - Information on tobacco products and manufacturer liability from Northeastern University School of Law in Boston

Tobacco Death Toll - 1993 World Bank policy paper: magnitude of the problem; economic costs; what can be done; policy recommendations.

Tobacco Epidemic: Health Dimensions - WHO factsheet. Half a billion people now alive will be killed by tobacco products and other descriptions of the size of the problem.

Tobacco Industry Denormalization Campaigns: Review and Recommendations - Report provides an overview of tobacco denormalization mass media campaigns, with a particular focus on tobacco industry denormalization campaigns.

404 Tobacco Policy Research - Paper by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation explains the reasons for tobacco policy research, and summarizes its own programs in this area.

Tobacco Profile for Denmark - Summary of smoking and tobacco stats.

Tobacco, Health and the Law - Syllabus, reading lists, and online reading materials for a course given at The University of Dayton Law School. Covers history; populations and demographics; proposed laws, regulation, and litation; tobacco and the third world countries.

Tobacco: A Global Killer - Short factsheet outlines and provides examples of massive tobacco promotion around the globe, and summarizes the consequences.

Tobacco: A Legal and Policy Issue of the Elderly - Policy paper examines impact of tobacco on older people: addiction, secondhand smoke, smoking cessation and health care coverage, smokefree environments for children and grandchildren.

Toward a Tobacco Free California - Two extensive policy reports: A Model for Change: The California Experience in Tobacco Control (31 pages, pdf), and Toward A Tobacco Free California: Strategies for the 21st Century 2000-2003 (54 pages, pdf). Both outline tobacco control programs which are effective, and provide a basis for estimating the rate at which effective programs can reduce tobacco use.
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