Tobacco & Smoking

Recent Titles ▲

Bill: H.R. 1256: Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act [GovTrack.us]
Bill: H.R. 1256: Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act: To protect the public health by providing the Food and Drug Administration with certain authority to regulate tobacco products (introduced to House March 3, 2009, laid before Senate June 3, 2009) CRS Summary.
CRS report on H.R. 1256: FDA Tobacco Regulation: The Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act of 2009 (2009)
Statistics: Smoking & Tobacco Use: Fact Sheets [CDC]
Statistics: Smoking & Tobacco Use: Data and Statistics [CDC]
Youth statistics: Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance--United States, 2007 [MMWR]
Overview: Smoking [Medline]
Ending the problem: Ending the Tobacco Problem: A Blueprint for the Nation
Statistics: Cigarette Smoking Among Adults--United States, 2007 [MMWR]
World information: The Tobacco Atlas

Statistics ▲

Statistics: Smoking & Tobacco Use: Fact Sheets [CDC]
Statistics: Smoking & Tobacco Use: Data and Statistics [CDC]
Statistics: Cigarette Smoking Among Adults--United States, 2007 [MMWR]
Youth statistics: Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance--United States, 2007 [MMWR]
States: State Reports on Alcohol, Tobacco, and Illegal Drug Use [SAMHSA]
International: The Tobacco Atlas
Statistical Abstract of the United States | CATALOG RECORD | HTML
Note: In INDEX see Cigarettes or Smoking or Tobacco

Books ▲

Library Catalog SUBJECT: advertising cigarettes
Library Catalog SUBJECT: advertising tobacco
Library Catalog SUBJECT: cigarette smokers
Library Catalog SUBJECT: nicotine
Library Catalog SUBJECT: passive smoking
Library Catalog SUBJECT: products liability tobacco
Library Catalog SUBJECT: smoking
Library Catalog SUBJECT: smoking law and legislation
Library Catalog SUBJECT: smoking united states prevention
Library Catalog SUBJECT: teenagers tobacco use
Library Catalog SUBJECT: tobacco health aspects
Library Catalog SUBJECT: tobacco industry
Library Catalog SUBJECT: tobacco industry health aspects
Library Catalog SUBJECT: tobacco industry law and legislation
Library Catalog SUBJECT: tobacco physiological effect
Library Catalog SUBJECT: tobacco use
Library Catalog SUBJECT: tobacco use government policy

Articles ▲

Articles of note:

MMWR: Smoking & Tobacco Use [Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Reports]

Teens: "Susceptibility to Nicotine Dependence: The Development and Assessment of Nicotine Dependence in Youth 2 Study." Pediatrics, v. 120, no. 4, October 2007, pp. e974-983).

Youth statistics: Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance--United States, 2007 [MMWR]

Advertising: "Getting to the Truth: Evaluating National Tobacco Countermarketing Campaigns," American Journal Of Public Health, June 2002, Vol. 92, No. 6, pages 901-907.
Print: PERIODICALS RA 421 A411 92/6 page 901.
Online: For full text, search ABI/Inform by Article Title.
Note: This entire issue is dedicating to smoking-related issues: Selling Cigarettes Over the Web, Tobacco and the Media, Maternal Smoking and Antisocial Behavior in Children, Smoking Among Chinese Americans, and more.

Lung cancer: "Annual Report to the Nation on the Status of Cancer, 1973-1996, With a Special Section on Lung Cancer and Tobacco Smoking." JNCI, April 21, 1999. DOCS/US HE 20.3161:91/8 pages 675-690.

Historical statistics: "Perspectives in Disease Prevention and Health Promotion Smoking-Attributable Mortality and Years of Potential Life Lost--United States, 1984." Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report 46(20):444-451, May 23, 1997. Print: DOCS/US HE 20.7009:46/20 p.444. [QUOTE: "Cigarette smoking remains the leading preventable cause of death in the United States. The same methods and data sources . . . indicated that 2,153,700 deaths (1,393,200 men and 760,400 women; total annual average: 430,700 deaths) were attributed to smoking (19.5% of all deaths)."]