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• A Randomised Controlled Trial of a Community Prevention Campaign   [rate it] [review it]
  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.

• Addicted to Nicotine - A National Research Forum   [rate it] [review it]
  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.

• Canadian Tobacco Research Initiative   [rate it] [review it]
  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.

• Centre for Tobacco Research Control   [rate it] [review it]
  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.

• Clearing the Smoke: Assessing the Science Base for Tobacco Harm Reduction   [rate it] [review it]
  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.

• International Tobacco Evidence Network   [rate it] [review it]
  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.

• Joe Un-Cool   [rate it] [review it]
  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.

• Measuring National Tobacco Usage   [rate it] [review it]
  Poster session from health conference focusses on stats: prevalence, demographics, longitudinal groupings.

• Mechanisms of Immune Suppression by Cigarette Smoke   [rate it] [review it]
  Research aims to learn more about how cigarette smoke suppresses the immune system, ultimately causing respiratory tract infections and cancer.

• Monitoring and Evaluation Program   [rate it] [review it]
  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.

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