Tobacco and Smoking

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Systematic Review of the Impact of Worksite Wellness Programs — Feb 1, 2012

Analyzes the impact of worksite wellness programs on health and financial outcomes, and the effect of incentives on participation.

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Momentary Effects of Exposure to Prosmoking Media on College Students' Future Smoking Risk — Feb 1, 2012

This study used ecological momentary assessment to examine acute changes in college students' future smoking risk as a function of their exposure to prosmoking media (e.g., smoking in movies, paid advertising, point-of-sale displays).

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Targeting Anti-Smoking Messages: Does Audience Race Matter? — Jan 1, 2012

This study examined whether an adolescent's self-identified race moderates the perceived effectiveness of anti-smoking messages.

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Is the Intergenerational Transmission of Smoking from Mother to Child Mediated by Children's Behavior Problems? — Jan 1, 2012

In this paper, we examine the possibility that maternal smoking during pregnancy may set off a behavioral trajectory for the child that increases the likelihood of problem behaviors generally, of which smoking is one manifestation.

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Peer Influence and Selection Processes in Adolescent Smoking Behavior: A Comparative Study — Jan 1, 2012

Adolescent smoking studies find evidence of active peer influence and selection processes.

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A Transnational Study of Migration and Smoking Behavior in the Mexican-origin Population — Jan 1, 2012

Evidence suggests that smoking is suppressed among migrants relative to the broader transnational Mexican-origin population.

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Interactions and Addiction — Jan 1, 2012

The authors examine the nature of interactions in the addiction syndrome model.

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Romantic Attraction and Adolescent Smoking Trajectories — Dec 1, 2011

This analysis examines smoking behaviors across sexual orientation groups by describing how same- and opposite-sex romantic attraction, and changes in romantic attraction, are associated with trajectories of smoking over six years.

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Multisite Cost Analysis of a School-Based Voluntary Alcohol and Drug Prevention Program — Sep 1, 2011

The large cross-school variation in the cost of implementing Project CHOICE (a voluntary after-school prevention program for adolescents) highlights the importance of collecting cost information from multiple sites.

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Within-day Temporal Patterns of Smoking, Withdrawal Symptoms, and Craving — Sep 1, 2011

Real-time data collected by palm-top computer confirms individual differences in situational smoking associations.

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Substance Use Among Middle School Students: Associations with Self-Rated and Peer-Nominated Popularity — Jun 1, 2011

More-popular middle school students are more likely to be cigarette smokers, drinkers, and marijuana users, as well as past-month drinkers, suggesting that popularity is a risk factor for substance abuse.

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Assessing the impacts of Revising the Tobacco Products Directive: Study to support a DG SANCO Impact Assessment — Mar 8, 2011

In order to inform the European Commission's formal Impact Assessment for a revision to the Tobacco Products Directive, this study provides an overview of evidence for tobacco product regulation and an analysis of health and economic implications.

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Economic Impact of Mexico City's Smoke-Free Law — Feb 3, 2011

There is no statistically significant evidence that the Mexico City smoke-free law had a negative impact on restaurants' income, employees' wages and levels of employment.

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A Unified Framework for Smoking Assessment: The PROMIS Smoking Initiative — Jan 17, 2011

The PROMIS Smoking Initiative has the goal of developing, evaluating, and making widely available a set of items for assessing smoking behavior and the biopsychosocial constructs that can be used to predict smoking outcomes.

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The Effects of Arkansas Master Settlement Spending on Disparities in Smoking — Jan 1, 2011

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Trends and Inequalities in Late-Life Health and Functioning in England — Jan 1, 2011

Recently, late-life disability rates have declined in several countries of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation, but no national-level trend analysis for England has been available.

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Judging Nudging: Can Nudging Improve Popuation Health? — Jan 1, 2011

Nudging has captured the imagination of the public, researchers, and policy makers as a way of changing human behaviour, with both the UK and US governments embracing it. Theresa Marteau and colleagues ask whether the concept stands up to scientific scrutiny.

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Neighborhood Archetypes for Population Health Research: Is There No Place Like Home? — Jan 1, 2011

Latent class analysis. A new approach to studying the role of place in population health, can be used in both research and practice.

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The Role of the Self in Smoking Initiation and Smoking Cessation: A Review and Blueprint for Research at the Intersection of Social-Cognition and Health — Jan 1, 2011

This paper discusses a contemporary social cognitive framework that can be used to understand the role of the self-concept in smoking.

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Lapse-induced Surges in Craving Influence Relapse in Adult Smokers: An Experimental Investigation — Jan 1, 2011

Previously abstinent smokers who lapse are at risk for increased cigarette cravings and full-blown relapse. The findings have implications for cognitive–behavioral treatments to prevent relapse and medications to help smokers manage cravings.

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