Testimony on Smoking Cessation
- "Other than immunization, smoking cessation is the most cost-effective prevention intervention for adults"
- http://www.ahcpr.gov/news/stat0298.htm

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.
- http://academic.udayton.edu/health/syllabi/tobacco/

State System
- CDC report provides demographics of cigarette usage in each state.
- http://apps.nccd.cdc.gov/statesystem/

Economics of Tobacco Control
- World Bank economics of tobacco control site provides information, analyses, reviews and links to help researchers and policymakers and to assist governments to choose and implement effective tobacco control measures.
- http://www1.worldbank.org/tobacco/

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.
- http://www.ncseonline.org/NLE/CRSreports/Agriculture/ag-72.cfm?&CFID=4566579&CFTOKEN=97181479

In Memory of James Beattie Morison M.D.
- Includes three papers Dr. Morison wrote on smoking in Canadian children, 1960 through 1982.
- http://www3.telus.net/public/james135/jamesbeattiemorisonmd.htm

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
- http://ash.org/areport.html

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.
- http://www.no-smoke.org/document.php?id=395

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.
- http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=180614

Tobacco Control Archives
- Collection of papers, unpublished documents, and electronic resources relevant to tobacco control issues. Provided by the University of California, San Francisco.
- http://www.library.ucsf.edu/tobacco/

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.
- http://speakerskit.chestnet.org/

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.
- http://www.social-marketing.com/sponsorship.html

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.
- http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/hecs-sesc/tobacco/roundtable/denorm_campaigns.html

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 perfect
- http://pcvc.sminter.com.ar/cvirtual/cvirteng/cienteng/sfeng/sfc6301i/ilown/ilown2.htm

Inside Indonesia: Worshipping cancer sticks
- News article reports "the tobacco industry keeps the government afloat, but at a huge cost in ordinary lives."
- http://www.insideindonesia.org/edit56/reynld.htm

The Epidemiology of Smoking in Ukraine
- Slides from a college lecture reporting the results of a cross sectional survey undertaken in 2000.
- http://www.pitt.edu/~super1/lecture/lec4851/index.htm

Country Case Studies
- Examines China, Mexico, Viet Nam, Russia, Romania, Poland, Senegal, South Africa.
- http://www.essentialaction.org/country.html

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.
- http://www.ash.org.uk/html/cessation/whobarcelona.pdf

Smoking Cessation is Cost Effective
- Research published in the Journal of the American Medical Association finds that smoking cessation programs are cost-effective.
- http://jama.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/abstract/278/21/1759

CDC confirms tough anti-tobacco campaigns reduce smoking rates
- The federal government says tough anti-smoking campaigns have been successful in several states.
- http://www.ardmoreite.com/stories/082599/new_centers.shtml

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.
- http://www.bu.edu/bridge/archive/2000/03-24/features1.html

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.
- http://www.nurseweek.com/news/features/01-02/smoke.asp

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.
- http://www.dhs.ca.gov/tobacco/

A tobacco-free Europe
- Publications, factsheets, and reports compiled by WHO and other organizations on the effects and trends of tobacco use in Europe.
- http://www.who.dk/eprise/main/WHO/Progs/TOB/Home

Tobacco Profile for Denmark
- Summary of smoking and tobacco stats.
- http://www.globalink.org/tobacco/docs/eu-docs/denmark

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.
- http://www.who.int/inf-fs/en/fact154.html

Tobacco Death Toll
- 1993 World Bank policy paper: magnitude of the problem; economic costs; what can be done; policy recommendations.
- http://www.worldbank.org/html/extdr/hnp/hddflash/hcnote/hrn001.html

Tobacco Control Resource Center
- Information on tobacco products and manufacturer liability from Northeastern University School of Law in Boston
- http://www.tobacco.neu.edu/

Tobacco Control Policy Briefing Papers
- Papers from the Advocacy Institute on preemption; treating tobacco dependence; counter advertising; secondhand smoke; youth access; special populations.
- http://www.advocacy.org/publications/mtc/index.htm

Tobacco Control In Canada
- Canadian experience and skills in smoking prevention and cessation.
- http://www.cpha.ca/english/intprog/tobacco.htm

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.
- http://ssdc.ucsd.edu/tobacco/reports/

Tobacco Control in Arizona: A Roundtable
- Summary of recent experiences and results in programs to reduce tobacco use.
- http://apha.confex.com/apha/128am/techprogram/session_3331.htm

Tobacco Control and the Precede-Proceed Model
- Follows a single issue, tobacco control, through the phases of the Precede-Proceed model of health promotion.
- http://www.lgreen.net/hpp/appendix.htm

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.
- http://tc.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/full/7/4/397

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.
- http://www.tcsg.org/sfelp/clearinghouse.htm

Tobacco: A Global Killer
- Short factsheet outlines and provides examples of massive tobacco promotion around the globe, and summarizes the consequences.
- http://tobaccofreekids.org/campaign/global/pdf/globalkiller.pdf

Taking Action to Reduce Tobacco Use
- 1998 NRC report. Organized into different policy recommendations.
- http://www.nap.edu/readingroom/books/tobacco/

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 treatme
- http://books.nap.edu/html/state_tobacco/

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.
- http://apha.confex.com/apha/128am/techprogram/session_3121.htm

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.
- http://www.ssrc.msstate.edu/socialclimate/

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.
- http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/466401.stm

Smoking is a Major Cause of Blindness
- Editorial in a health journal considers the scientific and policy merits of a new pack warning.
- http://www.mja.com.au/public/issues/171_4_160899/mitchell/mitchell.html

Smoking - Dohányzás
- Smoking at the threshold of the year 2000: situation report on Hungary.
- http://www.globalink.org/tobacco/hungary/

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.
- http://www.smokefreefamilies.org/

Smoke Free Europe - A Forum for Networks
- October 1996 conference in Helsinki.
- http://www.health.fi/smoke2html/index.html

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.
- http://tgorski.com/news_analysis/nicotine_addiction_Henningfield_010629.htm

Review of Smoking Prevention and Control Strategies
- Review of measured results of different prevention and tobacco control strategies.
- http://tc.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/full/9/1/47

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.
- http://www.library.ucsf.edu/tobacco/ustl/

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.
- http://www.citizen.org/congress/civjus/prod_liability/tobacco/

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.
- http://www.irlgov.ie/committees-99/c-health/Rep-Evidence/page10.htm

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.
- http://www.acha.org/info_resources/tobacco_statement.pdf

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.
- http://www.personal.u-net.com/~ersj/Newsletter/newsletter_2.htm

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.
- http://www.ucsf.edu/daybreak/1999/02/16_glantz.html

The Norwegian ban on Advertising of Tobacco Products -- Has it Worked?
- Careful analysis of consumption and prevalence rates, among different populations and in general.
- http://www.kreft.no//english/norwegianbanontobaccoadvertisment/

National and State Tobacco Policy and Program Evaluation
- Programs in New York, Florida, California, and nationally in the U.S.
- http://apha.confex.com/apha/128am/techprogram/session_3323.htm

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
- http://www.tobacco.neu.edu/tobacco_control/resources/msa/index.html

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.
- http://www.advocacy.org/publications/mtc/counterads.htm

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.
- http://judiciary.senate.gov/oldsite/garrison.htm

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.
- http://www.irlgov.ie/Committees-01/c-health/HealthandSmoking/

IPF 2003 - Tobacco Economics Research and Advocacy
- Policy research in Romania seeks to analyse the factors affecting tobacco consumption in that country.
- http://www.policy.hu/radu

International Tobacco Control Poster Session
- Health conference features policy analysis, program evaluation, and presentation of innovative programs.
- http://apha.confex.com/apha/128am/techprogram/session_3117.htm

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.
- http://apha.confex.com/apha/128am/techprogram/session_3965.htm

The Impact of the 1997 Tobacco Tax Increase on Cigarette Consumption in Alaska
- Graphs consumption; measures price elasticity.
- http://health.hss.state.ak.us/dph/PDFs/tobacco_report_final.pdf

How to Fight Big Tobacco and Win
- Describes anti-tobacco programs in California, Minnesota, and Massachusetts.
- http://www.ahealthyme.com/topic/bigtobacco

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
- http://nasw.org/users/holtza/tob_links.htm

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 i
- http://www.ahs.uwaterloo.ca/~hbr/

The Communication Initiative - Communication Interventions
- Numerous papers and summary introductions to programs on smoking and health worldwide.
- http://www.comminit.com/

Florida Tobacco Control Clearinghouse
- A one-stop shop for tobacco resources/news related to control, prevention, and cessation.
- http://www.ftcc.fsu.edu

Final Report of The Advisory Committee on Tobacco Policy and Public HealthAction on Smoking and Health (ASH)
- The Koop-Kessler report, nicely HTML-ized.
- http://ash.org/report2.html

Do Workplace Smoking Bans Reduce Smoking?
- Economic research examines the effect of smokefree workplaces on tobacco product consumption.
- http://papers.nber.org/papers/W5567/

Death and Tobacco Taxes
- Health and economic analysis concludes that a 10% increase in tobacco tax would save over 5,000 lives a year.
- http://www.rje.org/abstracts/abstracts/1996/Summer_1996._pp._415_428.html

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
- http://www.globalink.org/tobacco/wb/

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.
- http://www.ceche.org/publications/factshts/fctshts.htm

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.
- http://healthlink.mcw.edu/article/1014756220.html

Case Studies in Tobacco Control Policy Development
- Abstracts from conference presentations.
- http://apha.confex.com/apha/128am/techprogram/session_1443.htm

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.
- http://canadalife.buildingbetterhealth.com/topic/casmoking