September 11, 2009
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Partners With Tobacco Use Research Centers helped translate the research findings of the Transdisciplinary Tobacco Use Research Centers (TTURCs) into policy and practice.
November 12, 2004
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The Delaware-Raritan Girl Scout Council in East Brunswick, N.J., worked to educate Girl Scouts in Central New Jersey about the dangers of smoking and secondhand smoke through award programs, anti-smoking rallies, health fairs and summer camp programs.
January 1, 2003
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From 1998 to 1999, SRI International, Menlo Park, Calif., published and disseminated papers presented at a conference on the science base for preventing tobacco use.
August 1, 2001
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The National Foundation for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Inc. oversaw research on the etiology of tobacco use among teens of diverse ethnic and racial groups and on the most effective communication messages to prevent teen addiction to tobacco.
August 1, 2001
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In 1999, Pyramid Communications, Inc., Seattle, planned and implemented a tobacco prevention conference - "New Partnerships and Paradigms for Tobacco Prevention Research."
February 1, 1999
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From 1997 to 1998, researchers at Brown University School of Medicine, Providence, R.I., examined cigarette smoking as a barrier to cancer screening - both mammography and Pap tests - in women aged 40 to 75.
August 2, 2012
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Tobacco Policy Change invested in tobacco policy advocacy in those states and communities with higher percentages of poor people, blue-collar workers, minorities, and others disproportionately impacted by tobacco use.
August 2, 2012
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With funding from RWJF's Tobacco Policy Change and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Southwest Navajo Tobacco Education Prevention Project spearheaded an ambitious effort to curb the use of commercial tobacco among the 300,000-member Navajo Nation.
August 8, 2011
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From 2008 to 2011, the American Legacy Foundation ran "Become an EX," a national smoking cessation media campaign that portrayed quitting smoking as a challenging yet achievable goal.
November 18, 2009
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In the 1990s, Massachusetts led the nation in anti-smoking programs, but from 2000 to 2004, the state cut its funding for tobacco prevention by 95 percent.
