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Rethinking Stop-Smoking Medications- Myths and Facts - Position paper from the Ontario Medical Association, June 1999, outlines policy best supported by the medical science on cessation aids.
 
Review of Smoking Prevention and Control Strategies - Review of measured results of different prevention and tobacco control strategies.
 
Risk Perception and Communication: Environmental Tobacco Smoke and Child Health - Tobacco use and ETS issues present a significant challenge to conventional notions of risk communication. Conventional forms of message delivery, have failed utterly in the case of tobacco use. Paper examines this quandry.
 
Scientific Basis for Various Regulatory Aapproaches for Tobacco - Testimony by Dr. Jack Henningfield on the health effects of tobacco and the scientific basis for various regulatory approaches.
 
Scorecard For the 105th Congress: Tobacco - Collection of annotated links to tobacco policy views and analyses for 1998.
 
Smoke Free Europe - A Forum for Networks - October 1996 conference in Helsinki.
 
SmokeFree Europe - Conference on tobacco or health, Helsinki, 2-4 October 1996. All abstracts online.
 
Smoking Cessation and Prevention - Bibliography of research.
 
Smoking Cessation: A Systems Approach - A Guide for Health Care Administrators, Insurers, Managed Care Organizations, and Purchasers. Cost and effectiveness of various quit smoking methods; best practices; recommendations.
 
Smoking Prevalence and Tobacco Policies in the Member States of the European Union - Info as of 1997; overviews of different tobacco policies and tobacco use in Belgium, Luxembourg, Austria, Sweden, Italy, the UK, Denmark, Netherlands, Finland, Portugal, France, Greece, Germany, Spain, and Ireland.
 
Smoking and Health Action Foundation Publications - Number of papers on policy options, tools, and challenges for reducing tobacco use. Covers: legislation, regulation, pricing, packaging and labelling, cessation and harm reduction, secondhand smoke, and recovery of health care costs.
 
Smoking and Health: A Physician Responsibility - Tobacco use is major public health problem and physicians and medical organizations share a public health duty to address this problem. Summary of public health facts of smoking, cessation, nicotine addiction, and physician issues; also public health recommendations on tobacco taxes, smokefree public places and workplaces, tobacco advertising and promotion, cessation services, and content and packaging of tobacco products.
 
Smoking is a Major Cause of Blindness - Editorial in a health journal considers the scientific and policy merits of a new pack warning.
 
Smoking, The African American Community and The Proposed National Settlement - Scholarly article analyzes how well the proposed June 20 1997 federal tobacco deal addresses the impact of tobacco on the African American community; internal tobacco industry documents are cited on how the industry targetted African Americans.
 
Social Climate of Tobacco Control - 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.
 
State Programs Can Reduce Tobacco Use - 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.
 
State Programs Offer Lessons on Anti-Tobacco Media Campaigns - Reuters article summarizes research and experience.
 
State and Local Tobacco Control Programs and Evaluation - Poster session from health conference examines a number of programs focusing on the community or local level.
 
Stivoro: Tobacco Control in the Netherlands - Dutch law, public health campaigns, and advocacy efforts of the Dutch Foundation on Smoking and Health (Stivoro).
 
Strategies for Tobacco Control in the US - Health Promotion Advocacy item by Michael Pertschuk. Strengths of tobacco control: persuasive power of science, development of resources and advocates, knowledge and wisdom at your fingertips, exposure of the darkest industry secrets, and more.
 
 
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