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Tobacco Control

Tobacco control policies have been shown to reduce tobacco use and tobacco-related disease. These policies include laws and enforcement preventing sales to youth under 18, clean air laws, media campaigns, smoking cessation treatment policies, and most importantly, taxation.

PIRE researchers developed a computer simulation model, called SimSmoke, to predict the impact of many different policies on smoking rates, disease and death, both in the United States and in other nations.

The items below are selected from the PIRE Resource Finder, which you can search for more publications, staff, etc., on any aspect of this topic.

Published Literature

Simulation modeling and tobacco control: Creating more robust public health policies, American Journal of Public Health (2006). Author(s): Levy, David T.; Bauer, J.E.; and Lee, H.R.

Recent trends in smoking and the role of public policies: Results from the SimSmoke tobacco control policy simulation model, Addiction (2005). Author(s): Levy, D.T.; Nikolayev, L.; and Mumford, E.A.

The Healthy People 2010 smoking prevalence and tobacco control objectives: results from the SimSmoke simulation model, Cancer Causes and Control (2005). Author(s): Levy, D.T.; Mumford, E.; and Nikolayev, L.

The effects of tobacco control policies on smoking rates: a tobacco control scorecard, Journal of Public Health Management and Practice (2004). Author(s): Levy, D.; Chaloupka, F.; and Gitchell, J.,

The effects of clean indoor air laws: What do we need to know?, Health Education Research (2003). Author(s): Levy, David T.; and Friend, K.B.

Tobacco control policies, and reductions in smoking rates and smoking-related deaths: Results from the SimSmoke Model, Expert Review of Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research (2003). Author(s): Levy, David T.; Mumford, Elizabeth A.; and Pesin, B.

Unobtrusive Observations of Smoking in Urban California Bars, Journal of Drug Issues (2003). Author(s): Lee, Juliet P.; Moore, Roland S.; and Martin, Scott E.

A model of policies aimed at youth access to tobacco, Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law (2000). Author(s): Levy, David T.; and Friend, K.

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Staff Experts

Karen Friend, PhD, CPSS, Senior Scientist

Juliet Lee, Ph.D., Senior Research Scientist

Roland S. Moore, Ph.D., Senior Research Scientist

PIRE Projects

Ethnographic Evaluation of Tobacco Policies in Bars, National Cancer Institute (NCI) (5/24/2004 - 4/30/2008)

Smokeless Tobacco: Epidemiology and Policies, National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) (4/10/2004 - 3/31/2006)

Geography of Underage Tobacco Retail Sales in Los Angeles, University of California - TRDRP (7/1/2003 - 12/31/2006)

California AB13 Compliance and Ethnicity in Urban Bars, University of California (TRDRP) (7/1/2003 - 12/30/2006)

A Simulation of Tobacco Policy, Smoking and Lung Cancer, National Cancer Institute (NCI) (8/26/2002 - 7/31/2010)

The Effects of Tobacco Control Policies on ETS Health Problems: The Use of Simulation Models to Predict & Understand Public Health Problems, Flight Attendant Medical Research Institute (FAMRI) (7/1/2002 - 1/31/2006)

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