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.
Tobacco Control Resource Center - Information on tobacco products and manufacturer liability from Northeastern University School of Law in Boston
American Lung Association on House Republican proposal - Point by point analysis of the (now dated) proposal. Concludes that it "flunks the test set by Drs. Koop and Kessler and the public health community for effective tobacco control legislation."
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 Its purpose is to collect, preserve, and provide access to papers, unpublished documents and electronic resources relevant to tobacco control issues primarily in California.
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.
Florida Tobacco Control Clearinghouse - A one-stop shop for tobacco resources/news related to control, prevention, and cessation.
Tobacco Reduction Planning for Public Health - Well organized set of links.
WHO initiative on tobacco - "The World Health Organization (WHO) has launched a global initiative to counter what it calls the tobacco industry's campaign of deception and lies around the world."
Health Science Analysis Project - Series of papers that consider the public health impact of various aspects of proposed federal tobacco legislation. From SCARCNet. Papers on disclosure of tobacco industry documents, tobacco control, price increases, regulation, tobacco industry tort liability, secondhand smoke, upcoming legislation.
Analysis of the Proposed 1997 Resolution - Analysis of the Master Settlement Agreement by Fox, Lightwood and Glantz; examines whether it lives up to its billing and what it's likely to do for the industry and for the public.
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.
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.
Smoking Cessation: A Systems Approach - A Guide for Health Care Administrators, Insurers, Managed Care Organizations, and Purchasers. Cost and effectiveness of various quit smoking methods; best practices; recommendations.
The Use of Counter-Advertising As A Tobacco Use Deterrent - "This paper reviews the scientific evidence on the use of counter-advertising as a tobacco control strategy. In addition, this paper provides a comparative analysis of the provisions addressing counter-advertising in five pieces of pending federal legislation."
Smoking Prevalence and Tobacco Policies in the Member States of the European Union - Info as of 1997; overviews of different tobacco policies and tobacco use in Belgium, Luxembourg, Austria, Sweden, Italy, the UK, Denmark, Netherlands, Finland, Portugal, France, Greece, Germany, Spain, and Ireland.
IIRC: Tobacco Investment - "The one place institutional investors, corporate executives, public health officials and other interested parties can go to get comprehensive, up-to-date, impartial information on the tobacco investment debate." Covers recent industry history, shareholder resolutions, legal situations, advertising and promotion of tobacco, and divestment.
The Communication Initiative - Communication Interventions - Numerous papers and summary introductions to programs on smoking and health worldwide.
Reducing the addictiveness of cigarettes - Can cigarettes be made less addictive? Scientific paper examines the question.
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.
Do Workplace Smoking Bans Reduce Smoking? - Economic research examines the effect of smokefree workplaces on tobacco product consumption.
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.
Addressing Tobacco in Managed Care - Tobacco use reduction conferences, papers, research results, and best practices of interest to health plans; health effects; secondhand smoke; effectivess of media campaigns; effectiveness of quit smoking methods.
The Basis for the Federal Tobacco Law Suit - Policy and law analysis makes the case that the U.S. Department of Justice should sue the tobacco industry for costs the product incurred, and industry deception and coverup which resulted in increased use.
Tobacco Control Policy Briefing Papers - Papers from the Advocacy Institute on preemption; treating tobacco dependence; counter advertising; secondhand smoke; youth access; special populations.
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.
Study: Two-pronged effort can cut smoking deaths by 40% - Purdue study on smoking prevention.
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."
Tobacco Magazine Ads Project - Maryland State Medical Society adopted a resolution in 1996 asking every managed care organization and hospital in the state to establish a policy against the display of magazines that contain tobacco ads; history and analysis of this policy.
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, public health, and public policy - Panel discussion at conference. Covers different health and policy aspects. Participants include Stan Glantz, Luanne Nyberg, and Bill Novelli.
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.
PBS - Dr. David Kessler - Dr. Kessler responds to tobacco industry arguments, lays out the case for regulating tobacco products.
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.
Addressing Tobacco in Managed Care-- Bibliography Fall 1998 - Annotated technical bibliography on tobacco cessation, policy, clinical practice guidelines, smoking costs and cessation cost effectiveness, secondhand smoke, physician intervention, pregnancy, spit tobacco, and youth.
Tobacco Use Control: Community Health Improvement - Report outlines a model for accomplishing and measuring health improvement in the community.
Cost-effectiveness of Smoking Cessation - "Several analyses have shown that treatment of tobacco dependence is highly cost-effective...Smoking cessation treatment has been dubbed the 'gold standard' of preventive interventions."
Testimony on Smoking Cessation - "Other than immunization, smoking cessation is the most cost-effective prevention intervention for adults"
A tobacco-free Europe - Information compiled by WHO and other organizations on the effects and trends of tobacco use in Europe.
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.
Tobacco/Nicotine/Smoking-Publications - Health analysis of public policy and legislation.
Smoking and Health Action Foundation Publications - Number of papers on policy options, tools, and challenges for reducing tobacco use. Covers: legislation, regulation, pricing, packaging and labelling, cessation and harm reduction, secondhand smoke, and recovery of health care costs.
Smoking and Health: A Physician Responsibility - Tobacco use is major public health problem and physicians and medical organizations share a public health duty to address this problem. Summary of public health facts of smoking, cessation, nicotine addiction, and physician issues; also public health recommendations on tobacco taxes, smokefree public places and workplaces, tobacco advertising and promotion, cessation services, and content and packaging of tobacco products.
Review of Smoking Prevention and Control Strategies - Review of measured results of different prevention and tobacco control strategies.
Tobacco Control and the Precede-Proceed Model - Follows a single issue, tobacco control, through the phases of the Precede-Proceed model of health promotion.
Stivoro: Tobacco Control in the Netherlands - Dutch law, public health campaigns, and advocacy efforts of the Dutch Foundation on Smoking and Health (Stivoro).
World No-Tobacco Day 1997 - Series of papers on tobacco control and public policy from a conference in 1997.
Anti-Tobacco Measures Prevent Cancer - California's tough anti-smoking measures and public health campaigns have resulted in a 14% decrease in lung cancer.
Strategies for Tobacco Control in the US - Health Promotion Advocacy item by Michael Pertschuk. Strengths of tobacco control: persuasive power of science, development of resources and advocates, knowledge and wisdom at your fingertips, exposure of the darkest industry secrets, and more.
Conference on Tobacco and Treatment Products - Conclusions, Treatment - Major conclusions: treatment works, treatment is cost effective, treatment is essential to reducing the death toll.
Taking Action to Reduce Tobacco Use - 1998 NRC report. Organized into different policy recommendations.
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.
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.
Smoking Cessation and Prevention - Bibliography of research; citations to literature on effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of prevention and cessation methods.
Smoke Free Europe - A Forum for Networks - October 1996 conference in Helsinki.
Tobacco Death Toll - 1993 World Bank policy paper: magnitude of the problem; economic costs; what can be done; policy recommendations.
Death and Tobacco Taxes - Health and economic analysis concludes that a 10% increase in tobacco tax would save over 5,000 lives a year.
Achievements in Tobacco Cessation: Case Studies - Case studies from Maine, Washington, and Oregon; measurements of improvements provided.
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.
The Tobacco Companies and Bankruptcy - UCSF policy analysis paper; concludes that while bankruptcy would change the scene, it wouldn't favor the tobacco industry over public health.
Economics of Tobacco Control - 500 million people alive today will die of tobacco-related diseass. Modest action by governments could prevent millions and millions of deaths, without harming economies, according to this report.
Scorecard For the 105th Congress: Tobacco - Collection of annotated links to tobacco policy views and analyses for 1998.
SmokeFree Europe - Conference on tobacco or health, Helsinki, 2-4 October 1996. All abstracts online.
The Case Against Tobacco Advertising - Scientific and policy analysis by the Coronary Prevention Group, a nonprofit organization that does not accept corporate funding.
The Norwegian ban on Aadvertising of Tobacco Products -- Has it Worked? - Careful analysis of consumption and prevalence rates, among different populations and in general.
Kids, Tobacco, and the Civil Enforcement of Latent Laws - Paper comparing different approaches to getting laws enforced that prohibit sales to kids. Compares Driscoll, Mangini.
Report and Recommendations of the Ad Hoc Advisory Committee on Tobacco Investments - University of Michigan considers whether to own tobacco stock; a report of the committee appointed to study the question.
British Medical Association on the Tobacco Industry - Submitted to the Health Select Committee Enquiry into the tobacco industry. Covers scientific knowledge on the effects of tobacco products; industry response; consumer protection; recommendations.
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.
Clean Indoor Air as a Youth Protection Strategy - ANR analysis puts forward a short summary of smokefree environments as a youth tobacco protection and prevention strategy.
The Impact of the 1997 Tobacco Tax Increase on Cigarette Consumption in Alaska - Graphs consumption; measures price elasticity.
How The Tobacco Deal Compares To Standards - Analysis by Brion Fox and Stan Glantz of how the proposed June 20th 1997 "global settlement" deal compared with established standards.
Tobacco Control: Enforcement and Effectiveness of Federal and State Youth Access Laws - 1998 report by the Congressional Research Service casts doubt on effectiveness of industry-sponsored programs and industry-sponsored youth access legislation, whose main purpose appears to be pre-empt local programs.
Public awareness and Education - Factsheet from Washington State on tobacco advertising and counter-advertising.
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.
Smoking, The African American Community and The Proposed National Settlement - Scholarly article analyzes how well the proposed June 20 1997 federal tobacco deal addresses the impact of tobacco on the African American community; internal tobacco industry documents are cited on how the industry targetted African Americans.
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.
Tobacco Control in Jails - What can be done about secondhand smoke in perhaps the ultimate "group housing" -- jail. Guide to implementation of a smokefree policy; planning for change; a tale of two jails; resources.
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 from political interference; a broad-based focus rather than one exclusively tragetting children.
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.
Best Practices for Reducing the Health Toll from Tobacco in Wyoming - Summary of best practices in tobacco prevention; how it works and why.
Effective Antismoking Ads - Summarizes findings of recent research on effectiveness of antismoking ads.
CDC confirms tough anti-tobacco campaigns reduce smoking rates - The federal government says tough anti-smoking campaigns have been successful in several states.
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.
Harris Poll: Tobacco Addiction - Reveals that 70% of all people still smoking have tried to quit, on average four times, and most are aware of tobacco's health effects; poll results called a metric of the power of tobacco addiction.
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.
Tobacco Row Under Siege - Investment article. "A sudden upsurge in major lawsuits against tobacco companies has turned previously unconcerned pension funds into shareholder activists."
IRRC Finds Growing Support for Tobacco Divestme - A major study released January 2000 finds that institutional investors have divested or restricted tobacco investments totaling nearly $3.0 billion from 1996 through 1998. An investor report.
Kentucky Legislators' Views on Tobacco Policy - Research into policymakers' views in a tobacco state performs a survey of 116 Kentucky legislators. Surprisingly, they were highly supportive of reducing the state's dependence on tobacco and more supportive of tobacco control policies than expected.
Final Report of The Advisory Committee on Tobacco Policy and Public HealthAction on Smoking and Health (ASH) - The Koop-Kessler report, nicely HTML-ized.
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.
State Programs Offer Lessons on Anti-Tobacco Media Campaigns - Reuters article summarizes research and experience.
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.
Clearing the Smoke: Assessing the Science Base for Tobacco Harm Reduction - Online 300 page book.
The Political and Ethical Responsibility of the Physician in controlling the Tobacco Epidemic - Editorial from the Eurpoean Respiratory Society explores what physicians can and should do to combat tobacco.
Washingtonpost.com: Tobacco Politics and Policy - Collection of stories from the Washington Post on tobacco politics and policy.
Recovering Tobacco-Caused Public Expenditures from the Tobacco Industry - Tobacco causes Canada about CDN$20 billion a year. Paper presents policy analysis of different ways to recover those costs.
Tobacco Control in Arizona: A Roundtable - Summary of recent experiences and results in programs to reduce tobacco use.
International Tobacco Control Poster Session - Health conference features policy analysis, program evaluation, and presentation of innovative programs.
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.
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.
National and State Tobacco Policy and Program Evaluation - Programs in New York, Florida, California, and nationally in the U.S.
Case Studies in Tobacco Control Policy Development - Abstracts from conference presentations.
Rethinking Stop-Smoking Medications- Myths and Facts - Position paper from the Ontario Medical Association, June 1999, outlines policy best supported by the medical science on cessation aids.
Smoking is a Major Cause of Blindness - Editorial in a health journal considers the scientific and policy merits of a new pack warning.
Tobacco Control Blueprint - From the Asian and Pacific Islander American Health Foundation, guidelines and policy recommendations for research, programs, advertising and promotions, and international issues.
Report on the CRD Smoking Control Bylaw - Region in British Columbia considers and adopts a smoke-free local ordinance; paper outlines the policy considerations including ventilation.
Jeffrey E. Harris, MIT Home page - Online copies of Dr. Harris's economic analyses, most dealing with costs and prices of tobacco products.
Tobacco Control in the 21st Century: Comprehensive Approaches, Role of Cessation - Synthesis of papers presented at the 3rd International Heart Health Conference, Singapore, 28 August to 2 September 1998.
Stop Selling Tobacco to Children! - Public health briefing from the Rhode Island Department of Health outlines tobacco industry recruiting of new customers, addicting children, trends, and interventions.
The Effect of Tobacco Advertising Bans on Tobacco Consumption - Paper in the Journal of Health Economics; concludes that comprehensive bans reduce consumption, limited bands have little or no effect.
The Economic Case Against Tobacco Stocks - While some investors avoid tobacco stocks for moral reasons, this article discusses economic reasons for avoiding investing in tobacco stocks.
Investment In Tobacco Control - State by state breakdown of tobacco use among adults, among youth; deaths related to smoking; smoking attributable medicaid expenditures; lung cancer death rate; tobacco control funding; tobacco excise taxes; cigarette sales.
State System - CDC report provides demographics of cigarette usage in each state.
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.
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.
Cigarette Law - Article in law digest reviews the history of how cigarettes got exempted from almost all product liability law, and considers if the behavior of the tobacco industry would have been different without those exemptions.
The Physician's Role in Public Policy on Tobacco - Presentation-ready slides from the American College of Chest Physicians.
In Memory of James Beattie Morison M.D. - Includes three papers Dr. Morison wrote on smoking in Canadian children, 1960 through 1982.
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.
Tobacco Law Compendium - Searchable by case, legislation, bylaw, or legal literature, as well as document text. In English and French.
A Sweet Deal for Big Tobacco - Analysis of the proposed "global tobacco settlement" of 1997 concludes it would have kept the tobacco industry profitable and done little for the public.
A conversation with C. Everett Koop, M.D. - In 1900 one in five Americans died from tuberculosis; TB control succeeded in dramatically reducing this disease. Today one in five Americans dies from tobacco, but a tobacco industry marketing budget of $5 billion per year encourages tobacco use. Dr. Koop discusses this and other public health aspects of tobacco.
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.
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.
