Benefits of a Smoke-Free Workplace CDC’s Benefits of a Smoke-free Workplace, included in Making Your Workplace Smokefree: A Decision Maker’s Guide Restrictions on Smoking in the Workplace, included in NCI Monograph 12: Population Based Smoking Cessation Risks of Tobacco Use NCI Tobacco Fact Sheets: http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/tobacco/information CDC Tobacco Fact Sheets: http://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/hlthcon.htm Quitting Quit to Live: Learn to Quit Smoking Today: http://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/news/QuitSmoking.htm Breath of Fresh Air: http://www.4woman.gov/QuitSmoking/index.cfm How to Quit: http://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/how2quit.htm Refresh Yourself! Stop Smoking 5-Day Plan to Quit Smoking: http://www.surgeongeneral.gov/tobacco/

• Smokers Flock Together and Quit Together
  http://www.nih.gov/news/health/may2008/nia-21.htm
• NIH Scientists Demonstrate Genetic Variant is Linked to Greater Effectiveness of Smoking Cessation Medication
  http://www.nih.gov/news/pr/sep2007/nida-10.htm
• NIDA Study Identifies Genes That Might Help Some People Abstain From Smoking
  http://www.nih.gov/news/pr/apr2007/nida-02b.htm
• Damage to Specific Part of the Brain May Make Smokers 'Forget' to Smoke
  http://www.nih.gov/news/pr/jan2007/nida-25b.htm
• NIDA Researchers Complete Unprecedented Scan of Human Genome That May Help Unlock the Genetic Contribution to Tobacco Addiction
  http://www.nih.gov/news/pr/dec2006/nida-04.htm
• New Campaign, Featuring Smokers’ Personal Stories, Encourages Tobacco Users to "Be a Quitter"
  http://www.nih.gov/news/pr/sep2006/nci-29.htm
• NIDA Announces Smoke-Free Meeting Policy
  http://www.nih.gov/news/pr/aug2006/nida-21.htm
• Imaging Study May Help Point Toward More Effective Smoking Cessation Treatments
  http://www.nih.gov/news/pr/aug2006/nida-07.htm
• NCI Announces New Smoke-free Meeting Policy to Address Major Public Health Hazard
  http://www.nih.gov/news/pr/jul2006/nci-13.htm
• Effective Strategies for Tobacco Cessation Underused, Panel Says
  http://www.nih.gov/news/pr/jun2006/omar-14.htm
• NIH State-of-the-Science Conference Tobacco Use: Prevention, Cessation, and Control
  http://www.nih.gov/news/pr/jun2006/od-14.htm
• Increasing Evidence Points to Link Between Youth Smoking and Exposure to Smoking in Movies
  http://www.nih.gov/news/pr/nov2005/nci-07b.htm
• Lung Scarring Diseases Linked to Genes and Smoking
  http://www.nih.gov/news/pr/nov2005/nhlbi-01.htm

Audio Reports

  Genes Linked to Tobacco Addiction – 12/15/2006
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Results of a unique genetic study bring scientists one step closer to understanding why some casual smokers become addicted to nicotine.

  A Few "Harmless Puffs" Can Lead One Towards Nicotine Addiction – 08/25/2006
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The findings from a study indicate that children whose mothers smoked during pregnancy begin to show a pattern of behavior problems as early as 18-24 months of age.

  Study Shows Childen of Smoking Mothers Exhibit Early Behavior Problems – 07/28/2006
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The findings from a study indicate that children whose mothers smoked during pregnancy begin to show a pattern of behavior problems as early as 18-24 months of age.

  State of the Science Conference Discusses Tobacco Use, Cessation Treatments – 06/16/2006
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The National Institutes of Health held a State of the Science Conference to discuss tobacco use prevention and treatments.

  Increasing Evidence Points to Link Between Youth Smoking, Smoking in Movies – 11/10/2005
2:26 min | 2.2 MB | MP3 Format | Transcript | Get RealPlayer

A study funded by the National Cancer Institute and conducted by researchers from Dartmouth Medical School looked at kids aged 10 through 14 and found they had a higher risk of trying tobacco as their exposure to movie smoking increased.

  Childhood Exposure to Second-Hand Smoke Has Long-Lasting Effects – 09/04/2005
1:29 min | 1.0 MB | MP3 Format | Transcript | Get RealPlayer

A study finds that early-life exposure to second-hand smoke can produce life-long respiratory problems. Published by researchers at the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, it's the largest study, to date, on the effects of childhood exposure to environmental tobacco smoke on respiratory disease later in life.

  NCI Announces Integrated Plan to Fight Lung Cancer – 08/21/2005
1.10 min | 1.0 MB | MP3 Format | Transcript | Get RealPlayer

With the goal of reducing suffering and death due to cancer by 2015, the National Cancer Institute has unveiled an integrated plan aimed at fighting lung cancer.

• Surgeon General Reports on Tobacco: http://www.surgeongeneral.gov/library/reports.htm
• National Cancer Institute Tobacco Control Research Branch: http://dccps.nci.nih.gov/tcrb/
• National Cancer Institute Tobacco Monographs: http://dccps.nci.nih.gov/tcrb/monographs/index.html
• Medline Plus, Smoking and Smokeless Tobacco: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/002032.htm
• National Institute on Drug Abuse, Smoking and Nicotine: http://www.nida/drugpages/nicotine.html
• Tobacco-related clinical trials: http://www.clinicaltrials.gov/ct/search;jsessionid=3745965FBCB52D12424AD8648407F3B6?term=tobacco
• Trends in the Exposure of Nonsmokers in the U.S. Population to Secondhand Smoke: 1988-2002: http://www.ehponline.org/members/2006/8850/8850.html

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