Beverages Sold in Public Schools
August 14, 2012 | Issue Brief
Some Encouraging Progress, Additional Improvements are Needed
Although tobacco use has decreased, it is the leading cause of death in the United States. Implementing a combination of policy changes including clean indoor air laws, higher per-pack taxes, and cessation efforts are proven to reduce tobacco use and exposure to secondhand smoke.
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Binge Drinking on College Campuses Unaffected by School and Community Alcohol Policies
December 1, 2003 | Program Result Report
Investigators at Harvard University School of Public Health studied the effects of college and community policies on drinking, smoking and related problems among college students.
Book Compiles Wide-Ranging Tobacco-Control Strategies
June 1, 2003 | Program Result Report
Robert L. Rabin, J.D., Ph.D., led a project to commission essays and prepare Regulating Tobacco, a book that assesses the principal tobacco-control strategies and explores how they might be used in the future.
Book Tracks Success and Failure of Tobacco Control Factions in the National Tobacco Settlement
August 1, 2002 | Program Result Report
The Advocacy Institute prepared a narrative history and critical evaluation of strategic leadership in the tobacco control movement during the national tobacco settlement negotiations, the failed legislation that followed, and the aftermath.
Boosting Population Quits Through Evidence-Based Cessation Treatment and Policy
March 1, 2010 | Journal Article
This paper provides the analytic framework that guides two subsequent papers in this special supplement that use computer simulation modeling to show how these specific policies (and others) can impact reductions in smoking prevalence.
Bridging the Gap: Research Informing Practice and Policy for Healthy Youth
January 28, 2011 | Program Result Report
Bridging the Gap: Research Informing Practice for Healthy Youth Behavior conducts research on how laws, policies, practices, programs and other environmental influences at the state, community and school levels affect youth behaviors.
Bridging the Gap: Research Informing Practice and Policy for Healthy Youth Behavior
National Program
To improve understanding of school, community, state, and national policies and environmental factors affecting youth diet, physical activity, obesity, and tobacco, alcohol, and drug use.
Bringing Effective Substance Abuse Programs into the Trenches
January 1, 2003 | Program Result Report
Pyramid Communications, a communications and public affairs company based in Seattle, facilitated a two-day substance abuse prevention conference, "Prevention 2000: Moving Effective Programs into Practice."
Bringing Media Up to Snuff
January 1, 1999 | Program Result Report
The Michigan Public Health Institute organized a media briefing to enhance dissemination of research findings published in the Spring 1995 issue of Tobacco Control related to nicotine manipulation in moist snuff products.
Broken Promises to Our Children
December 6, 2012 | Report
This year, our report finds that states continue to spend only a miniscule portion of their tobacco revenues to fight tobacco use.