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Stealth tobacco
[ Spring 2009 ] Products Designed to Evade Control Can't smoke on an airplane, but still crave tobacco? Tobacco companies have come up with a solution for you: a pill that is packaged like a Tic Tac. With cigarette sales…
Media and tobacco use
K. "Vish" Viswanath, Associate Professor of Society, Human Development and Health, on the role of media in promoting and reducing tobacco use. (Duration: 5:37, October, 2008) Please click the player icon above to play this podcast in your…
Tobacco companies target youths with magazine advertising and marketing of smokeless tobacco products
For immediate release: October 15, 2008 Boston, MA -- Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) researchers have recently published two papers that analyze how tobacco companies have marketed their products to adults and youths. In addition, one of the…
Smoking and solid-fuel-burning in homes in China projected to cause millions of deaths from respiratory diseases in next three decades
For immediate release: October 4, 2008 Boston, MA -- If current levels of smoking and biomass and coal fuel use in homes continues, between 2003 and 2033 there will be an estimated 65 million deaths from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease…
Julius B. Richmond, former U.S. Surgeon General and Professor of Health Policy, Emeritus, dies
For immediate release: July 31, 2008 Boston, MA -- Julius B. Richmond, a former U.S. Surgeon General and Professor of Health Policy,Emeritus, died at home in Chestnut Hill, MA, on Sunday, July 27, 2008. He was 91. Dr.…
Tobacco industry systematically manipulated cigarette menthol content to recruit new smokers among adolescents and young adults
For immediate release: July 16, 2008 Boston, MA - Menthol cigarette brands have been rising in popularity with adolescents, and the highest use has been among younger, newer smokers. Researchers at Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) explored tobacco industry…
Decline in cigarette smoking in U.S. significantly offset by increase in use of cigars, snuff, roll-your-own and other tobacco products
For immediate release: Tuesday, June 10, 2008 Boston, MA--While trends in cigarette smoking and sales have declined in the U.S. for the past decade, sales of non-cigarette tobacco products have been on the rise. Researchers from the Harvard…
Join the global fight against tobacco
To reduce health disparities in a single act, the United States should join the global community in ratifying the first international public health treaty, the World Health Organization (WHO) Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC). Tobacco addiction, the…