Taking Our Own Best Advice: A Tobacco-Free NIH

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Tobacco In the News

March 14, 2012
Using Statistical Modeling to Evaluate Tobacco Control Efforts (3:27)
In this video, Dr. Eric "Rocky" Feuer discusses a paper in which he and colleagues supported by the National Cancer Institute used statistical modeling to assess the impact of tobacco control. They found that twentieth-century tobacco control programs and policies were responsible for preventing more than 795,000 lung cancer deaths in the United States from 1975 through 2000.
September 17, 2010
Cancer Research Now: Quitting Smoking? Find Support on Facebook (1:42)
NCI's Tobacco Control Research Branch has a new Facebook video campaign where women on the street talk about quitting smoking. The video accompanies a written article published September 21, 2010 in the NCI Cancer Bulletin http://www.cancer.gov/ncicancerbulletin/092110/page7?cid=YTncigov.

April 23, 2012
Nearly 800,000 deaths prevented due to declines in smoking
(MP3 - 03:27, 3.17 MB)
Twentieth-century tobacco control programs and policies have prevented nearly 800,000 lung cancer deaths in the US
June 22, 2011
Potential new target for smoking cessation without weight gain
(MP3 - 02:50, 2.59 MB)
A new study published in Science magazine identifies a brain pathway that could be a target of new treatments for smoking and weight control.

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