May 31, 2000
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The Group Health Cooperative of Puget Sound, Seattle, assessed the impact of different insurance coverage structures on the utilization and cost effectiveness of smoking-cessation services in a health maintenance organization.
May 31, 2000
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Montefiore Medical Center undertook an historical analysis of federal tobacco regulation and provided historical, social, and constitutional perspectives on the new Food and Drug Administration regulation of tobacco advertising and youth smoking.
May 31, 2000
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Stanford University School of Medicine examined the proliferation of smoking advertisements and promotion to help understand how tobacco promotions and advertisements influenced adolescents' perceptions of smoking and smoking behavior.
May 31, 2000
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The University of Michigan Institute for Social Research evaluated the net economic impact in eight non-tobacco regions and one tobacco region of the United States of reductions in or elimination of tobacco consumption.
May 31, 2000
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Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Inc., Boston, and a subcontractor Northeast Research, a survey research firm, carried out telephone surveys to assess the attitudes and practices of national and local unions regarding worksite smoking policies.
May 31, 2000
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From 1993 to 1997, the Michigan Public Health Institute, Detroit, produced, for the state and for each of Michigan's 83 counties, a profile of public opinion on tobacco control policies.
May 31, 2000
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UC Berkeley, School of Social Welfare developed a statistical model designed to estimate the medical care expenditures that were attributable to current and past cigarette smoking in the aggregate and for each of the 50 states.
May 31, 2000
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From 1994 to 1997, Health Research, Inc., Roswell Park Cancer Institute in Buffalo, N.Y., analyzed the information collected in the National Cancer Institute's Community Intervention Trial for Smoking Cessation (COMMIT) study.
May 31, 2000
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The Lewin Group conducted a comprehensive assessment of two national programs of RWJF: Tobacco Policy Research and Evaluation Program and the Substance Abuse Policy Research Program.
May 31, 2000
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This program contract provided an independent review and assessment of the validity and reliability of a statistical model designed to measure medical expenditures attributable to cigarette smoking developed under the earlier grant.