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| Title | Type | Date |
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International Tobacco Control Conference Packs in a Crowd The American Medical Association and RWJF planned, organized and conducted the 11th World Conference on Tobacco OR Health, which was held in August 2000. | Grant Results Reports | 02/27/2003 |
Tobacco Control Journal Expands Offerings and Publishes on the Internet Tobacco Control, an international peer-reviewed journal on tobacco-control policy, expanded its coverage of tobacco policy research and created an electronic full-text version of the journal (called TC Online). | Grant Results Reports | 11/30/2007 |
New Grants Support the Spread of Tobacco Policy Changes to Protect Americans' Health Recognizing the need to promote and sustain policies that reduce tobacco use and related health threats, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation today announced that it will award 25 grants totaling $2.2 million to local, regional and national organizations and tribal... | News releases | 12/15/2004 |
Going On-Line to Get Tobacco Control Information The nonprofit Advocacy Institute, Washington, continued disseminating anti-tobacco information through its online network and to explore other options for disseminating this information. | Grant Results Reports | 06/01/2002 |
National Tobacco Control Technical Assistance Consortium The National Tobacco Control Technical Assistance Consortium is a one-stop clearinghouse to connect tobacco-control advocates in this country at the state and local level with high-quality and timely technical assistance. | Grant Results Reports | 11/01/2006 |
Tobacco-Control Efforts Target American Indians and Alaska Natives Between 2002 and 2004, a project team at the Northwest Portland Area Indian Health Board, Portland, Ore., researched tobacco-control issues among tribal communities and worked to encourage youth to become more involved in tobacco prevention efforts. | Grant Results Reports | 02/19/2005 |
Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids Promotes WHO International Treaty on Tobacco Control The Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids worked to advance domestic and international tobacco control policies through support for the first international public health treaty on curbing tobacco use. | Grant Results Reports | 04/05/2007 |
Sustaining success - How-to tools - Grantee resources - Grants ... ... "Sustaining Success: Educating Key Audiences About Tobacco Prevention" is a toolkit designed to help state and local tobacco control program managers ... | General Web pages | |
African-American Community Groups Strengthen Tobacco and Alcohol-Control Efforts The National Association of African Americans for Positive Imagery worked to strengthen the capacity of African-American community organizations to address alcohol and tobacco control. | Grant Results Reports | 09/01/2003 |
The Tobacco Control Resource Center in Boston maintained a project to inject a public health perspective into media coverage of key legal rulings related to tobacco use. | Grant Results Reports | 03/31/2007 |
Helping Lawmakers Reach Informed Decisions on Tobacco Bills In 1998 and 1999, the Advocacy Institute, Washington, planned, wrote and distributed 15 reports providing a nonpartisan analysis of issues relevant to five tobacco control proposals that came before the U.S. Senate during the 105th Congress. | Grant Results Reports | 01/27/2003 |
For Web Crawlers, Tobacco Control Contacts from A to Z During 2002, independent consultant Philippe Boucher developed an online directory of more than 5,000 tobacco-control professionals and organizations in the United States - available to the public and searchable by name, location or key word. | Grant Results Reports | 12/31/2003 |
After States Settle with Big Tobacco, Antismoking Advocates Fight Complacency From 1998 to 2001, the Advocacy Institute, Washington, developed an advanced leadership program for state and local advocates in tobacco control. | Grant Results Reports | 01/01/2003 |
Voices in the Debate: Minority Action for Tobacco Policy Change From 2001 to January 2009, three organizations worked to strengthen and expand their roles in advocating for tobacco prevention and control at the national, state and local levels within communities of color. Their efforts focused chiefly on training leaders,... | Grant Results Reports | 12/23/2009 |
Training the Next Generation of Tobacco-Control Researchers A 1999-2001 joint initiative between the Harvard School of Public Health, the University of Massachusetts Boston and the Massachusetts Department of Health developed and piloted a collaborative, doctoral-level, tobacco-control research training program. | Grant Results Reports | 04/01/2003 |
Kids ACT! Leads to Activism on Tobacco Control by Kids in Grades Six Through Eight The Prevention Research Center of the School of Public Health and Health Services at the George Washington University evaluated Kids ACT!, a tobacco control advocacy curriculum for students in grades six through eight. | Grant Results Reports | 07/28/2008 |
The Coalition for a Tobacco Free Arkansas, with first the American Lung Association and then the American Cancer Society as the lead organization, conducted statewide activities to reduce tobacco use, particularly among children and youth. | Grant Results Reports | 10/05/2005 |
Evaluation of Smokeless States(R): National Tobacco Policy Initiative From 1993 to 2004, SmokeLess States: Statewide Tobacco Prevention and Control Initiative (renamed in July 2000 SmokeLess States?: National Tobacco Policy... | Evaluations, Evaluation projects | 10/19/2007 |
Book Compiles Wide-Ranging Tobacco-Control Strategies 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. | Grant Results Reports | 06/01/2003 |
Evaluation of the Tobacco Policy Change Program Tobacco Policy Change is a national initiative of RWJF created to ensure continued momentum on effective tobacco control policies and to extend that momentum to communities where people are most vulnerable to tobacco's devastating impact. | Evaluations, Evaluation projects | 06/09/2008 |
Tobacco-Control Laws on Clean Air and Youth Access are Enforced Differently The RAND Corporation examined, through case studies of seven states, how tobacco control laws and ordinances are implemented and enforced by state and municipal authorities. | Grant Results Reports | 01/25/2007 |
1997 Conference Studies Tobacco Control in States that Increased Tobacco Taxes The Cancer Prevention and Control Center at Boston University Medical Center convened a conference at which representatives from four states that had passed tobacco tax initiatives discussed issues they had faced. | Grant Results Reports | 06/01/2000 |
Training Forum Provides Innovative Ideas for Tobacco-Control Programs Aimed at Minorities During 2001 and 2002, Morse Enterprises, a communications and information brokerage company, Silver Spring, Md., worked to pursue a national strategy for tobacco control in minority communities. | Grant Results Reports | 10/01/2003 |
Funding Helps Local Advocacy Groups Reduce Tobacco Threat As part of its commitment to reduce tobacco use and exposure to secondhand smoke, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation today announced $1.9 million in new grants to tobacco control initiatives at 21 sites nationwide. The grants are aimed at communities where people... | News releases | 02/06/2007 |
Enlisting Parents, Teachers and Students in Tobacco Control Advocacy The National Education Association Health Information Network, Washington, supported a pilot project to increase the number of youth and parent tobacco-control advocates in Connecticut and Maryland. | Grant Results Reports | 05/01/2002 |
Book Tracks Success and Failure of Tobacco Control Factions in the National Tobacco Settlement Michael Pertschuk at 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. | Grant Results Reports | 08/06/2002 |
Simulation Modeling and Tobacco Control A case study involving tobacco control programs in Arizona was presented to illustrate the capabilities of simulation modeling to measure the effect of tobacco control policies on smoking and mortality due to smoking. "Full Court Press" (FCP) was a... Published In: American Journal of Public Health | Journal articles | 03/01/2006 |
From mid-2001 to mid-2004, the Protect Montana Kids coalition, with the American Cancer Society as the lead organization, conducted statewide activities to reduce tobacco use, particularly among children and youth. | Grant Results Reports | 10/04/2005 |
Informing Tobacco-Control Stakeholders of Key State and Federal Policy Developments and Trends From 2006 through 2008, the American Lung Association expanded its various efforts to inform stakeholders in the tobacco-control community of key state and federal policy developments and... | Grant Results Reports | 11/10/2009 |
The Wisconsin SmokeLess States project, with first the Tobacco-Free Wisconsin Coalition and then SmokeFree Wisconsin as the lead organization, conducted statewide activities to reduce tobacco use, particularly among children and youth. | Grant Results Reports | 10/04/2005 |