All Posts: tobacco control
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Tobacco Regulations Center Receives $20 Million for Tobacco Use Research
The Center for the Assessment of Tobacco Regulations (CAsToR) — a collaboration with Georgetown University, the University of Michigan, and the British Columbia (BC) Cancer Research Institute — recently received $20 million in funding to continue its research on the impact of tobacco regulations on tobacco use patterns and their downstream health effects.
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Smoking, Tobacco Use Among Teens Continues to Drop Even as Use of E-cigs Grows
WASHINGTON (December 2, 2020) — Despite the increase in use of e-cigarettes among adolescents, cigarette and smokeless tobacco prevalence declined more rapidly between 2012 and 2019 than in previous periods, according to a new study. The analysis by Georgetown University and the University of Michigan shows that past 30-day and daily use of both cigarettes […]
Category: News Release
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Fifty-year Campaign Extended Lives for 8 Million Americans
New study that has found tobacco control measures initiated 50 years ago with the 1964 Surgeon General’s report that linked, for the first time, smoking and disease, have had a dramatic effect.
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