Institute for Health Policy Studies of the University of California assembles a complete analysis of the proposed 1997 "resolution" that weighs and measures its impact on health.

Publications, factsheets, and reports compiled by WHO and other organizations on the effects and trends of tobacco use in Europe.

Prevalence ranged from 12% to 30 in 2000; high levels of public support were found - even among smokers - for smoke-free policies.

The federal government says tough anti-smoking campaigns have been successful in several states.

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.

Report examines effectiveness of youth access as a tobacco control strategy.

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.

Nursing Week article discusses a payoff of California's anti-tobacco campaign: fewer lung cancer and bronchial cancer deaths.

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.

Abstracts from conference presentations.

This is one of quite a few major Portals aimed at this type of "Digital Divide" issue. It is supported by major research organisations in this field such as the Canadian Development Agency, and by large content providers such as the BBC.

Examines China, Mexico, Viet Nam, Russia, Romania, Poland, Senegal, South Africa.

Complete online book. "About 500 million people alive today will eventually be killed by tobacco use". Global Trends in Tobacco Use; The Health Consequences of Smoking; Do Smokers Know Their Risks and Bear Their Costs? Measures to Reduce the Demand for Tobacco; Measure to Reduce the Supply of Tobacco; The Costs and Consequences of Tobacco Control; An Agenda for Action.

Health and economic analysis concludes that a 10% increase in tobacco tax would save over 5,000 lives a year.

Economic research examines the effect of smokefree workplaces on tobacco product consumption.

World Bank economics of tobacco control site provides information, analyses, reviews and links to help researchers and policymakers and to assist governments to choose and implement effective tobacco control measures.

The Koop-Kessler report, nicely HTML-ized.

A one-stop shop for tobacco resources/news related to control, prevention, and cessation.

Index of and links to tobacco control stories and research by independent journalist Andrew Holtz, former CNN Medical Correspondent and Kaiser Family Foundation Media Fellow. Includes analyses of the Truth campaign in Florida and the ballot campaign that raised the tobacco tax in Oregon. Also, links to NPR archives and other information on tobacco issues.

Describes anti-tobacco programs in California, Minnesota, and Massachusetts.

Policy research in Romania seeks to analyse the factors affecting tobacco consumption in that country.

Poster session from health conference: cigar smoking among college students, engaging youth in tobacco control activities, and developing health warning messages.

Includes three papers Dr. Morison wrote on smoking in Canadian children, 1960 through 1982.

News article reports "the tobacco industry keeps the government afloat, but at a huge cost in ordinary lives."

Health conference features policy analysis, program evaluation, and presentation of innovative programs.

Committee in the Parliament of Ireland held in 2001 three days of hearings on the effects of smoking on Ireland; transcripts here.

1998 testminony of John Garrison, President of the American Lung Association, to the U.S. Senate Committee on Judiciary; outlines tobacco facts and related public policy aims and means.

Facts, findings, and recommendations on regulatory policy, research policy, public education, youth and tobacco, performance objectives, current users of tobacco products, secondhand smoke, and future of the tobacco industry and of tobacco control efforts.

Journal article examines the arguments for and against using litigation as a policy tool, with specifics drawn from tobacco control.

Counter advertising can be effective, but its effectiveness depends on factors such as adequate, long term funding; ability to administer the campaign from political interference; a broad-based focus rather than one exclusively tragetting children.

Paper presented at a conference on social marketing analyses the effectiveness of an innovative tobacco prevention program: sponsoring a race car.

Programs in New York, Florida, California, and nationally in the U.S.

Research shows the new graphic Canadian cigarette warnings are effective.

UCSF research analyses anti-smoking campaigns, concludes that only aggressive ad campaigns backed by public health advocates succeed.

American College Health Associations outlines a recommended policy for college campuses, aiming at providing smokefree environments and achieving tobacco use reduction.

Presentation made to the Joint Committee on health and CHildren of the Houses of the Oireachtas, Parliament of Ireland, on tobacco and health.

Discussion and analysis of tobacco policy options including litigation, legislation, regulation, and deals with the industry; focus is on the proposed deal of 1997.

Summary of the research by ANR concludes the evidence is poor that youth access strategies are effective in reducing consumption.

Review of measured results of different prevention and tobacco control strategies.

Testimony by Dr. Jack Henningfield on the health effects of tobacco and the scientific basis for various regulatory approaches.

Major conclusions: treatment works, treatment is cost effective, treatment is essential to reducing the death toll. Conference of WHO Europe.

October 1996 conference in Helsinki.

Innovations to stop smoking during and beyond pregnancy: a new national partnership that can dramatically improve the health of mothers and their babies, while saving lives and cutting health care costs.

Smoking at the threshold of the year 2000: situation report on Hungary.

Research published in the Journal of the American Medical Association finds that smoking cessation programs are cost-effective.

Short student film promoting non-smoking. Available in QuickTime or RealPlayer format [Flash required].

Researchers find a rapid rise in tobacco use in China, where half the smokers surveyed do not know it causes cancer.

Editorial in a health journal considers the scientific and policy merits of a new pack warning.

Report from the Social Science Research Center at Mississippi State University; covers tobacco control in Mississippi and in America; youth and adult smoking prevalence trends.

Presentation-ready slides from the American College of Chest Physicians; includes presentations on Women and Girls, Tobacco and Lung Cancer, Diagnosis and Management of Lung Cnacer, and editions for Asia, the Indian Subcontinent, and African Americans.

National Cancer Policy Board report. Report covers: what is the evidence that state programs make a difference? counteradvertising and education; establishing smokefree workplaces and public spaces; increasing prices through taxation; supporting treatment programs for tobacco dependence; reinforcing youth access restrictions; monitoring performance and evaluating programs.

CDC report provides demographics of cigarette usage in each state.

Poster session from health conference examines a number of programs focusing on the community or local level.

Research finds that antismoking ads from health groups do decrease smoking, but prosmoking ads from cigarette companies likewise increase smoking.

1998 NRC report. Organized into different policy recommendations.

"Other than immunization, smoking cessation is the most cost-effective prevention intervention for adults"

Slides from a college lecture reporting the results of a cross sectional survey undertaken in 2000.

Graphs consumption; measures price elasticity.

Paper provides a legal and public policy analysis of selected topics and provisions of the multistate Master Settlement Agreement of November 23, 1998, including effects on other legal actions, tobacco advertising, youth access, lobbying, and the national foundation.

Careful analysis of consumption and prevalence rates, among different populations and in general.

"The struggle against tobacco is not being won, it is being relocated. The tobacco wars of the next century will increasingly be waged among vulnerable populations ill equipped to cope with the slick marketing techniques and the dirty tricks perfected by the tobacco industry."

Editorial from the European Respiratory Society explores what physicians can and should do to combat tobacco use.

Opinions about the campaign to prevent teen smoking, the tax on tobacco and the tobacco settlements.

is a central, organized source of information on tobacco. Its purpose is to collect, preserve, and provide access to papers, unpublished documents and electronic resources relevant to tobacco control issues primarily in California.

Canadian experience and skills in smoking prevention and cessation.

Papers from the Advocacy Institute on preemption; treating tobacco dependence; counter advertising; secondhand smoke; youth access; special populations.

The facts on big tobacco on trial, from the Northeastern University School of Law in Boston.

Follows a single issue, tobacco control, through the phases of the Precede-Proceed model of health promotion.

Summary of recent experiences and results in programs to reduce tobacco use.

Tobacco Use Behavior Research, Cancer Prevention and Control Program, University of California, San Diego. Overview, analysis, and evaluation of what causes smoking and what's effective in prevention and cessation.

1993 World Bank policy paper: magnitude of the problem; economic costs; what can be done; policy recommendations.

WHO factsheet. "Half a billion people now alive will be killed by tobacco products" and other descriptions of the size of the problem.

Report provides an overview of tobacco denormalization mass media campaigns, with a particular focus on tobacco industry denormalization campaigns.

Summary of smoking and tobacco statistics.

Paper based on media research and analysis of California's tobacco education campaign. Everyone asks what works in anti-smoking education: here are answers.

Syllabus, reading lists, and online reading materials for a course given at The University of Dayton Law School. Covers history; populations and demographics; proposed laws, regulation, and litation; tobacco and the third world countries.

Short factsheet outlines and provides examples of massive tobacco promotion around the globe, and summarizes the consequences.

Policy paper examines impact of tobacco on older people: addiction, secondhand smoke, smoking cessation and health care coverage, smokefree environments for children and grandchildren.

California has been a leader in tobacco control; UCSF maintains an archive of important documents, including many formerly secret tobacco industry internal memos.