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December 5, 2012 | Journal Article
While taxes have helped reduce tobacco use—the single largest cause of death in the United States—by more than 50 percent since the mid-1960s, tobacco use has been largely unchanged for the past 20 years.
August 22, 2011 | Journal Article
A study to determine the effectiveness of primary care provider (PCP) smoking cessation counseling for people with alcohol, drug or mental (ADM) disorders found that PCPs can help smokers with ADM disorders successfully quit smoking.
April 7, 2009 | Journal Article
This article examines the effectiveness of a triple-combination pharmacotherapy for smokers who are medically ill. Medically ill smokers make up a disproportionately high percentage of all smokers, and there has been limited research on effective smoking cessation treatments for this population.
May 1, 2008 | Journal Article
This study examined whether the impact of televised smoking cessation ads differed by a population's education and income.
August 1, 2007 | Journal Article
This study examines trajectories into marriage and out of health risk behaviors (such as smoking cessation) in order to better understand how marriage can be protective of health. Specifically, the authors investigate how marriage shapes well-being ...
January 1, 2006 | Journal Article
Smoking is one of the most important behavioral determinants of poor health, disability and premature death. As young adults progress into midlife, employment and joblessness can affect tobacco use through access to health resources, exposure to hea ...
May 1, 2013 | Journal Article
A harm-reduction model where the marketing is handled by a nonprofit entity is needed to align with the goals of reducing tobacco-related harm.
December 5, 2012 | Story
Study by RWJF Scholar Jason Fletcher finds that genes may explain why some people will pay more to satisfy their smoking habits.
August 15, 2012 | Feature/Story
Determined to make progress in tobacco control, RWJF invested nearly $700 million between 1991 and 2009 in seven groundbreaking programs.
July 1, 2011 | Journal Article
Researchers offer a more complete, yet easily modified model for estimating American life expectancy by age and sex, incorporating for the first time the decline in tobacco use, increase in obesity and well-known trends and patterns of mortality.