July 1, 2004
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Program Result
Logicon/ROW Sciences, a Rockville, Md.-based health care research and consulting company, organized "The First Conference on Menthol Cigarettes: Setting the Research Agenda," March 21-22, 2002 in Atlanta.
April 1, 1997
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Program Result
The University of Illinois at Chicago studied the effect on smoking by youth if all cigarette packages were a standard color with black printing giving only the brand name, contents, and a health warning.
December 1, 2003
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Program Result
Researchers at the University of California, San Francisco, School of Dentistry worked to revise their prototype patient education program - Video Doctor - so that patients can operate it independently in their physicians' offices.
May 31, 2000
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Program Result
The National Bureau of Economic Research analyzed data of surveys of students and found that higher cigarette excise taxes would result in substantial reductions in smoking among teenagers and young adults.
May 31, 2000
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Program Result
In August 1995, the FDA proposed a rule to give it the power to regulate certain tobacco products containing nicotine on the basis that they meet the legal definition of drugs under the federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act.
August 1, 2006
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Program Result
Between November 1999 and October 2003, K. Michael Cummings, Ph.D., M.P.H., and colleagues at Health Research Incorporated, Roswell Park Cancer Institute Division (Buffalo, N.Y.) surveyed adult smokers to document consumer understanding and misperceptions about:
September 1, 2006
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Program Result
Rutgers University analyzed longitudinal data from the Pittsburgh Youth Study to compare patterns of cigarette smoking over time among African-American and White males from childhood to young adulthood.
June 1, 2012
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Journal Article
Although the majority of smokers begin smoking in adolescence, for most, long-term smoking habits are crystallized in young adulthood. Approximately 22 percentĀ of individuals ages 18 to 24 currently smoke. Despite these statistics, young adults are ...
National Program
A center to work with a variety of health professional organizations and institutions to increase their motivation and capability to refer smokers into treatment.
National Program
To reduce rates of smoking in families by supporting research to develop and evaluate effective new interventions to help women quit smoking before, during and after pregnancy.