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SRNT
Newsletter
October/November
2003, Volume 9, Number 4
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 www.smokefree.gov
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to view the NCI tobacco cessation web site.
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Where
Have All the Programs Gone?
by
Phillip Gardiner
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Increasingly,
state governments are cutting back tobacco control and research programs
and citing record state budget deficits as the reason (1). (See Table
1.) Moreover, in several states, programs are facing draconian cuts or
elimination altogether instead of taking their fair share of the budget
cuts. Below, are some of the more glaring assaults on tobacco control
and research programs taking place around the country. For a state-by-state
account of tobacco program cutbacks, please go to the Campaign for Tobacco
Free Kids (CTFK) Web site: www.tobaccofreekids.org. To view the
complete story, click
here.
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The
Framework Convention on Tobacco Control
by Judith Wilkenfeld
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While
tobacco use has attracted a great deal of attention in the United States,
fewer than 5% of the world's smokers live in the United States. The World
Health Organization (WHO) estimates that tobacco kills nearly 4.8 million
people in the world each year. It expects the global tobacco death toll
to rise rapidly and kill nearly 10 million by 2030. However, by then the
epidemic will have shifted dramatically, with nearly 70% of these deaths
occurring in developing countries.To view the rest of this article,
click
here.
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| New
Web Help for Smokers |
The
National Cancer Institute is proud to introduce www.smokefree.gov, a new
Website dedicated to helping smokers quit. This is a commercial-free site
developed using scientific smoking cessation research and provides a variety
of media to help smokers quit, including online instant messaging, a Web-based
quitting guide, smoking quit line (1-888-44U-QUIT), and self-help guides.
Smoking cessation self-help guides are available for special populations,
including Spanish speakers, African American smokers, smokers over the
age of 50, and smokers who have recently quit. To read the full story,
click
here.
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Book
Review: "Addiction and change: How addictions develop and addicted
people recover" by Carlo C. DiClemente
reviewed by
Arie Dijkstra
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Although
the importance of psychology in understanding and changing addictions
is widely acknowledged, the past two decades have seen little progress
in the psychology of the acquisition and cessation of addictions. To give
new impulse to the field of psychology of addictions, new challenging
and competing theories of the psychology of addictions are needed. Although
the Trans Theoretical Model (TTM) of behavior change is over 20-years-old,
it still is an important candidate to stimulate new research on the psychology
of addictions.To see the complete review, click
here.
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Support
Our Journal: Nicotine and Tobacco Research
by Ed Lichtenstein
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The
Society's journal, Nicotine and Tobacco Research (N&TR), has been
very successful. The journal is critical to the Society's mission to improve
the science and enhance the impact of our science on policy and practice.
Wide readership of N&TR is important to our science and to the financial
health of our Society. Members can help to expand N&TR's subscriber
base with very little response cost.To view the rest of this article,
click
here.
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Nicotine
Don't Get No Respect
by John Hughes
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My
newest winner of the Nicotine Don't Get No Respect award is the
U.S. Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA).
On September 5, it sent out a press release based on the 2002
National Survey on Drug Use and Health (AKA the National Household
Survey). The headline was "22
Million in U.S. Suffer from Substance Dependence or Abuse." Since
about 50 million U.S. adults smoke and it is estimated that at
least 50% and probably close to 80% are dependent on nicotine,
I wondered how SAMHSA came up with such a low number. To view the complete story, click
here.
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Features: President's
Column, Editor's
Column, Member
Highlights, Member
Publications, Events
Calendar, SRNT
Officers and Committees
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