Recent tc_surveys items

Results of the California Teens Nicotine and Tobacco Project Online Survey 2023

Wed, 1 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000

This report summarizes the main results from the 2023 wave of the Teens, Nicotine, and Tobacco (TNT) Project Online Survey, which was a statewide online survey conducted in California during spring and fall of 2023.

Results of the California Teens Nicotine and Tobacco Survey 2022

Fri, 7 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0000

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

Economic and Health Effects of a State Cigarette Excise Tax Increase in California

Wed, 1 Feb 2012 00:00:00 +0000

The Coalition for a Healthy California is sponsoring a comprehensive statewide ballot initiative to raise the tobacco excise tax by $2.60 per pack of cigarettes in order to provide funding to qualified hospitals for emergency services, nursing education and health insurance to eligible children. This paper uses the best possible science to estimate the effect of a new tax on cigarette consumption, adult and youth smoking rates, tax revenues, and long term health outcomes. The additional tax would raise the average price of cigarettes to $6.55 per pack.

Going Smoke-free in the Land of Lakes: Law and Politics in Minnesota Smoke-free Campaigns

Mon, 29 Mar 2010 00:00:00 +0000

Between 2000 and 2006, many Minnesota communities were engaged in protracted campaigns to pass ordinances that regulated smoking. Challenges were compounded in communities where multiple cities and counties shared regulatory power within what was, for economic purposes, a single population center. In 2005, ClearWay MinnesotaSM awarded the Public Health Law Center a two-year research grant to study the legal and political obstacles that seven multi-jurisdictional Minnesota regions faced in smoke-free campaigns over this six-year period. The purpose of our study was to examine the approaches regulatory authorities took in these campaigns; to analyze the significance of legal and political obstacles in obstructing or supporting progress toward smoke-free regulation; and to develop recommendations to help public health advocates, health organizations, policymakers, and legal professionals anticipate, avoid, and address these obstacles.

The Economic Impact of Secondhand Smoke in Maryland

Wed, 4 Jun 2008 00:00:00 +0000

This study calculates the economic costs of exposure to secondhand tobacco smoke (SHS) in Maryland – for individuals, employers, and society as a whole. The total costs reported in this study for calendar year 2005 are as follows:

Costs related to childhood illness and death – $73.8 million.

Costs related to adult illness and premature death – $523.8 million.

This study should be considered as an estimate of the lower limit of the true economic costs due to secondhand smoke in Maryland, for the following reasons:

This study documents the costs of specific medical conditions that have been conclusively shown to be causally related to exposure to secondhand smoke. For children, these conditions include Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) bronchiolitis, otitis media, asthma, and burns. For adults, the conditions are lung cancer, nasal sinus cancer, cervical cancer, heart attacks, arteriosclerosis, stroke, and asthma. There are additional potential health...

American Legacy Foundation, First Look Report 18. Character Smoking in Top Box Office Movies

Wed, 24 Oct 2007 00:00:00 +0000

A strong body of evidence now links exposure to smoking in movies with adolescent smoking, identifying it as a key risk factor. Given this link, it is important to examine the way movies portray smoking and to monitor how often smoking occurs in movies over time. With support from the National Cancer Institute and the American Legacy Foundation, researchers at Dartmouth Medical School have conducted an extensive content analysis of 1000 movies, the top 100 box office hits each year from 1996-2005. This Legacy First Look Report examines how smokers are portrayed in these movies and describes trends in movie smoking, by movie and by movie character.

Findings

Our data about movie character smoking show: The portrayal of smokers is often unrealistic, with affluent male characters accounting for a much larger proportion of the tobacco users in movies than in the U.S.;

Smokers in movies are rarely portrayed as having a motive for smoking, and smoking status tends...

Taking On Goliath - Civil Society's Leadership Role in Tobacco Control

Tue, 26 Jun 2007 00:00:00 +0000

The global tobacco control movement is more than three decades old, but its impact is inconsistent. For every city or nation that takes strong action to reduce tobacco use, there is another where little if anything has been done to help people stop smoking or to establish tobacco control policies opposed by powerful tobacco industries. Tobacco continues to kill and cause debilitating illnesses, severely retarding progress in improving local, national, and global health and economic conditions.

Recent data indicate that smoking is the leading cause of deaths from cardiovascular diseases (1.69 million deaths annually), cancer (1.4 million deaths), and chronic obstructive pulmonary diseases (970,000 deaths). About 1.25 billion people smoke cigarettes, representing more than one-sixth of the Earth’s population. According to reports from the World Cancer Congress and the 13th World Conference on Tobacco OR Health, held in Washington, D.C., in July 2006, if current trends hold,...

Economic and Health Effects of a State Cigarette Excise Tax Increase in California

Mon, 8 Jan 2007 00:00:00 +0000

The Coalition for a Healthy California is sponsoring a comprehensive statewide ballot initiative to raise the tobacco excise tax by $2.60 per pack of cigarettes in order to provide funding to qualified hospitals for emergency services, nursing education, and health insurance to eligible children. This paper uses the best possible science to estimate the effect of a new tax on cigarette comsuption, adult and youth smoking rates, tax revenues, and long term health outcomes. The additional tax would raise the average price of cigarettes to $6.55 per pack.

Cigarette Purchasing Patterns among New York Smokers: Implications for Health, Price, and Revenue

Fri, 9 Jun 2006 00:00:00 +0000

Executive Summary

Raising the price of cigarettes is one of the most effective interventions to prevent and reduce cigarette use. Local, state, and federal governments can change the price of cigarettes by raising or lowering cigarette excise taxes and by implementing and enforcing minimum price laws. Smokers can also adjust their behavior by choosing discount or “bargain” brands, buying fewer cigarettes, and avoiding paying cigarette taxes by purchasing from retailers that do not levy all applicable state and local taxes, such as Indian reservations and Internet cigarette vendors.

Purchasing low price or untaxed cigarettes is common among smokers in New York. The most common source of cigarette tax avoidance in New York is purchasing from Indian reservations, especially in the western areas of the state. This behavior undermines the state’s efforts to prevent and reduce tobacco use. Cigarette tax avoidance not only reduces smokers’ incentives to quit smoking or...

Center for Tobacco Policy Research at Saint Louis University. Project LEAP. Indiana

Mon, 13 Feb 2006 00:00:00 +0000

In 2004, The Center for Tobacco Policy Research (CTPR) partnered with Indiana and several other states to evaluate how unstable state financial climates were affecting state tobacco control funding reductions. Using both quantitative methodologies, information was collected from the eight state tobacco control programs on topics such as state financial and political climates, partner relationships, program capacity, and the effects of funding reductions on program implementation. This report provides an overview of project LEAP and summary highlights from the series of four reports presenting Indiana evaluation results.

Center for Tobacco Policy Research at Saint Louis University. Project LEAP. New Mexico

Mon, 13 Feb 2006 00:00:00 +0000

In 2004, The Center for Tobacco Policy Research (CTPR) partnered with New Mexico and several other states to evaluate how unstable state financial climates were affecting state tobacco control funding reductions. Using both quantitative methodologies, information was collected from the eight state tobacco control programs on topics such as state financial and political climates, partner relationships, program capacity, and the effects of funding reductions on program implementation. This report provides an overview of project LEAP and summary highlights from the series of four reports presenting New Mexico evaluation results.

Center for Tobacco Policy Research at Saint Louis University. Project LEAP. Michigan

Mon, 13 Feb 2006 00:00:00 +0000

In 2004, The Center for Tobacco Policy Research (CTPR) partnered with Michigan and several other states to evaluate how unstable state financial climates were affecting state tobacco control funding reductions. Using both quantitative methodologies, information was collected from the eight state tobacco control programs on topics such as state financial and political climates, partner relationships, program capacity, and the effects of funding reductions on program implementation. This report provides an overview of project LEAP and summary highlights from the series of four reports presenting Michigan evaluation results.

Center for Tobacco Policy Research at Saint Louis University. Project LEAP. Florida

Mon, 13 Feb 2006 00:00:00 +0000

In 2004, The Center for Tobacco Policy Research (CTPR) partnered with Florida and sever other states to evaluate how unstable state financial climates were affecting state tobacco control conrol funding reductions. Using both quantitative methodologies, information was collected from the eight state tobacco control programs on topics such as state financial and political climates, partner relationships, program capacity, and the effects of funding reductions on program implementation. This report provides an overview of project LEAP and summary highlights from the series of four reports presenting Florida evaluation results.

Center for Tobacco Policy Research at Saint Louis University. Project LEAP. Nebraska

Mon, 13 Feb 2006 00:00:00 +0000

In 2004, The Center for Tobacco Policy Research (CTPR) partnered with Nebraska and sever other states to evaluate how unstable state financial climates were affecting state tobacco control conrol funding reductions. Using both quantitative methodologies, information was collected from the eight state tobacco control programs on topics such as state financial and political climates, partner relationships, program capacity, and the effects of funding reductions on program implementation. This report provides an overview of project Leap and summary highlights from the series of four reports presenting Nebraska evaluation results.

Center for Tobacco Policy Research at Saint Louis University. Project LEAP. Minnesota

Mon, 13 Feb 2006 00:00:00 +0000

In 2004, The Center for Tobacco Policy Research (CTPR) partnered with Minnesota and several other states to evaluate how unstable state financial climates were affecting state tobacco control funding reductions. Using both quantitative methodologies, information was collected from the eight state tobacco control programs on topics such as state financial and political climates, partner relationships, program capacity, and the effects of funding reductions on program implementation. This report provides an overview of project LEAP and summary highlights from the series of four reports presenting Minnesota evaluation results.

Center for Tobacco Policy Research at Saint Louis University. Project LEAP. North Carolina

Mon, 13 Feb 2006 00:00:00 +0000

In 2004, The Center for Tobacco Policy Research (CTPR) partnered with North Carolina and several other states to evaluate how unstable state financial climates were affecting state tobacco control funding reductions. Using both quantitative methodologies, information was collected from the eight state tobacco control programs on topics such as state financial and political climates, partner relationships, program capacity, and the effects of funding reductions on program implementation. This report provides an overview of project LEAP and summary highlights from the series of four reports presenting North Carolina evaluation results.

Center for Tobacco Policy Research at Saint Louis University. Project LEAP. Oregon

Mon, 13 Feb 2006 00:00:00 +0000

In 2004, The Center for Tobacco Policy Research (CTPR) partnered with Oregon and several other states to evaluate how unstable state financial climates were affecting state tobacco control funding reductions. Using both quantitative methodologies, information was collected from the eight state tobacco control programs on topics such as state financial and political climates, partner relationships, program capacity, and the effects of funding reductions on program implementation. This report provides an overview of project LEAP and summary highlights from the series of four reports presenting Oregon evaluation results.

American Legacy Foundation, First Look Report 11. Youth Tobacco Cessation. Results from the 2000 national youth tobacco survey