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Results of the California Tracking Nicotine and Tobacco Trends Project Online Survey 2025

Wed, 6 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

This report summarizes selected results from the 2025 TNT Project Online Survey, which was conducted May-December 2025. A total of 5,067 eligible participants completed the 2025 wave.

Results of the California Teens Nicotine and Tobacco Project Online Survey, 2024

Mon, 27 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0000

This report summarizes selected results from the 2024 TNT Project Online Survey, which was conducted May-December 2024.

Results of the California Teens Nicotine and Tobacco Survey

Thu, 6 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0000

This report summarizes the main results from the first wave of the Teens, Nicotine, and Tobacco (TNT) Project Online Survey, which was a statewide online survey conducted in California during 2021-2022.

The Tobacco Industry and Scientific Groups ILSI: A Case Study

Thu, 26 Feb 2004 00:00:00 +0000

A July 2000 report of an independent committee of experts outlined a number of ways in which the tobacco industry had attempted to undermine WHO tobacco control efforts in recent decades. One such method of subverting tobacco control involved the industry’s funding of and involvement in seemingly unbiased scientific groups to manipulate political and scientific debate concerning tobacco and health. This paper presents a brief chronology of the industry’s relations with one such group, the International Life Sciences Institute (ILSI), between 1983 and 1998. Findings indicate that ILSI was used by certain tobacco companies to thwart tobacco control policies. Senior office bearers in ILSI were directly involved in these actions.

The New York Profile: A review of New York's tobacco prevention and control program

Mon, 1 Dec 2003 00:00:00 +0000

Strong policy changes, respectable funding, and new direction at the Department of Health Tobacco Control Program (DOH TCP) have contributed to the next phase of New York’s tobacco control efforts. New York has been able to pass strong legislation in the areas of product placement, penalties for sales to minors, an excise tax increase, and a fire safe cigarettes law, despite somewhat unsupportive state policymakers. An improving tobacco control network and the work of local tobacco control champions helped push local clean indoor air policies, which led to a strong statewide clean indoor air law. These positive changes should lead to more progress by tobacco control advocates in New York provided funding can be maintained in the face of a large budget deficit.

Program Strengths & Challenges

Partners identified the following strengths and challenges of New York’s tobacco control program:

• The experience and leadership of the DOH TCP Director was a major...

Can Ventilation Control Secondhand Smoke in the Hospitality Industry?

Thu, 9 Oct 2003 00:00:00 +0000

A panel of ventilation experts assembled by OSHA and ACGIH concluded that dilution ventilation, used in virtually all mechanically ventilated buildings, will not control secondhand smoke in the hospitality industry (e.g., restaurants, bars, casinos). The panelists asserted that a new and unproved technology, displacement ventilation, offered the potential for up to 90% reductions in ETS levels relative to dilution technology. However, this assertion was not substantiated by any supporting data. Air cleaning was judged to be somewhere between dilution and displacement ventilation in efficacy, depending on the level of maintenance. The panel also failed to quantify the ETS exposure or risk for workers or patrons either before or after the application of the new technology. Panelists observed that building ventilation codes are not routinely enforced. They also noted the lack of recognized standards for acceptable ETS exposure as well as the lack of information on typical exposure...

The New York Profile: A review of New York's tobacco prevention and control program

Tue, 30 Sep 2003 00:00:00 +0000

Partners identified the following strengths and challenges of New York’s tobacco control program:

• The experience and leadership of the DOH; TCP Director was a major strength of the program.

• Clean indoor air efforts throughout the state were also a strength.

• Partners were concerned about the security of funding due to the large state and city budget deficits.

• The highly politicized DOH environment and slow grant process were viewed as barriers to the program.

• Little support from state policymakers and the influence of the tobacco industry made implementing a comprehensive program challenging.