- A Sweet Deal for Big Tobacco
Analysis of the proposed "global tobacco settlement" of 1997 concludes it would have kept the tobacco industry profitable and done little for the public. http://www.acsh.org/publications/priorities/0903/sweetdeal.html - A tobacco-free Europe
Publications, factsheets, and reports compiled by WHO and other organizations on the effects and trends of tobacco use in Europe. http://www.who.dk/eprise/main/WHO/Progs/TOB/Home - Addressing Tobacco in Managed Care
Tobacco use reduction conferences, papers, research results, and best practices of interest to health plans; health effects; secondhand smoke; effectivess of media campaigns; effectiveness of quit smoking methods. http://www.aahp.org/atmc/mainindex.cfm - Addressing Tobacco In Managed Care
Set of research articles on how and why tobacco use is a priority in managed care, and what can be done about it. http://tc.bmjjournals.com/content/vol9/suppl_1/ - Addressing Tobacco in Managed Care-- Bibliography Fall 1998
Annotated technical bibliography on tobacco cessation, policy, clinical practice guidelines, smoking costs and cessation cost effectiveness, secondhand smoke, physician intervention, pregnancy, spit tobacco, and youth. http://www.aahp.org/atmc/Fall98bibliography.htm - American Lung Association on House Republican proposal
Point by point analysis of the (now dated) proposal. Concludes that it "flunks the test set by Drs. Koop and Kessler and the public health community for effective tobacco control legislation." http://www.lungusa.org/press/association/asnfailure.html - Analysis of the Proposed 1997 Resolution
Analysis of the Master Settlement Agreement by Fox, Lightwood and Glantz; examines whether it lives up to its billing and what it's likely to do for the industry and for the public. http://www.tobacco.org/Misc/9708glantzanalysis.html - Anti-Tobacco Measures Prevent Cancer
California's tough anti-smoking measures and public health campaigns have resulted in a 14% decrease in lung cancer. http://www.msnbc.com/news/496913.asp - AntiSmokingAds.org
Presents Dr. Connie Pechmann's smoking-related research. http://www.antismokingads.org/ - ASAM and Nicotine
Scientific analysis and policy recommendations on tobacco products, from the American Society for Addiction Medicine http://www.asam.org/ppol/Table%20of%20Contents.htm#8 - Australia National Tobacco Strategy
Aims to improve the health of all Australians by eliminating or reducing their exposure to tobacco in all its forms. Papers on policy approach, tobacco harm minimization, restrictions on marketing, taxation, education, passive smoking, cigarette ingredient disclosure. http://www.health.gov.au/pubhlth/strateg/drugs/tobacco/ - California Tobacco Policy Experience
Papers and factsheets on adult smoking trends in California; California's tobacco education media campaign; do doctors advise their smoker patients to quit smoking; the response of Californians to secondhand smoke; youth smoking trends in California. http://www.dhs.ca.gov/tobacco/html/factsheets.htm - California's Anti-Tobacco Media Campaign
Article on California's anti-smoking ads, what works, and how to have impact with a fraction of the money that the industry spends promoting tobacco. http://canadalife.buildingbetterhealth.com/topic/casmoking - CECHE Tobacco Policy Fact Sheets
Set of short papers from CECHE, a private nonprofit health policy organization. Addresses US policy that affects international tobacco use; tobacco advertising and promotion; women and tobacco; smuggling. http://www.ceche.org/publications/factshts/fctshts.htm - Channing Bete Company Tobacco Policy
The Channing Bete company explains why it has decided not to accept tobacco industry money. http://shop.channing-bete.com/pages/pages_static_table/abt_us_pages/tobacco_policy.html - Cigarette Law
Article in law digest reviews the history of how cigarettes got exempted from almost all product liability law, and considers if the behavior of the tobacco industry would have been different without those exemptions. http://www.law.indiana.edu/ilj/v73/no3/givelber.html |