Research Fields

The research of the Center spans a multitude of disciplines from policy and historical research to economics, and science. The work is designed to inform and improve the effectiveness of public health and clinical interventions to reduce tobacco use both nationally and internationally.
  • Addiction and Cessation

    The nature and severity of nicotine addiction, treatement strategies, and the health benefits of quitting.

  • International

    The impact the tobacco industry is having outside the U.S. on globalizing the tobacco epidemic and strategies to mitigate this impact.

  • Marketing and Prevention

    The tobacco industry's marketing tactics for selling cigarettes and other products to adults and children, as well as effective counter-marking public health campaigns.

  • Policy and Politics

    Efforts by public health professionals to develop and implement smokefree and tobacco control policies, locally, nationally and internationally, and how the tobacco industry opposes these efforts.

  • Secondhand Smoke

    The health effects of secondhand smoke on individuals, society and the environment.

  • Special Populations

    Case studies, surveys and research showing how the tobacco industry markets their product to specfic groups.

  • Tobacco Effects

    The short and long term effects of cigarette smoking and other forms of tobacco use on health.