Addressing Tobacco in Managed Care

Tobacco use reduction conferences, papers, research results, and best practices of interest to health plans; health effects; secondhand smoke; effectivess of media campaigns; effectiveness of quit smoking methods.
http://www.aahp.org/atmc/mainindex.cfm

Addressing Tobacco in Managed Care-- Bibliography Fall 1998

Annotated technical bibliography on tobacco cessation, policy, clinical practice guidelines, smoking costs and cessation cost effectiveness, secondhand smoke, physician intervention, pregnancy, spit tobacco, and youth.
http://www.aahp.org/atmc/Fall98bibliography.htm

Addressing Tobacco In Managed Care

Set of research articles on how and why tobacco use is a priority in managed care, and what can be done about it.
http://tc.bmjjournals.com/content/vol9/suppl_1/

FindLaw Legal News: Tobacco

Updates on tobacco law from international to local, tobacco ligitation updates, and tobacco industry documents that feature in tobacco law.
http://news.findlaw.com/legalnews/lit/tobacco/

Report and Recommendations of the Ad Hoc Advisory Committee on Tobacco Investments

University of Michigan considers whether to own tobacco stock; a report of the committee appointed to study the question.
http://www.umich.edu/~urel/Tobacco/tobreptc.html

The Economic Case Against Tobacco Stocks

While some investors avoid tobacco stocks for moral reasons, this article discusses economic reasons for avoiding investing in tobacco stocks.
http://www.elkin.com/economic_case_against_tobacco.htm

Cigarette Law

Article in law digest reviews the history of how cigarettes got exempted from almost all product liability law, and considers if the behavior of the tobacco industry would have been different without those exemptions.
http://www.law.indiana.edu/ilj/v73/no3/givelber.html

Tobacco Law Compendium

Searchable by case, legislation, bylaw, or legal literature, as well as document text. In English and French.
http://www.tobaccolaw.org/

Tobacco Legal and Policy Issues

Papers on state laws on tobacco control, preemptive state tobacco laws, attitudes towards smoking in different states, effectiveness of tobacco control programs, and MMWR reports.
http://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/policy.htm

Selling Off or Selling Out? Medical Schools and Ethical Leadership in Tobacco Stock Divestment

Tobacco industry documents show that Philip Morris used its funding of medical schools to get them to keep their investment in tobacco stocks.
http://www.academicmedicine.org/cgi/content/full/79/11/1017

AMWA Position Paper: Tobacco Control and Prevention

The American Medical Womens Association outlines its stand and proposed policy initiatives.
http://www.amwa-doc.org/index.cfm?objectid=244E9AF4-D567-0B25-5DA167C3D452F725

The Effect of Tobacco Advertising Bans on Tobacco Consumption

Paper in the Journal of Health Economics; concludes that comprehensive bans reduce consumption, limited bans have little or no effect.
http://www.nber.org/papers/W6958

Anti-Tobacco Measures Prevent Cancer

California's tough anti-smoking measures and public health campaigns have resulted in a 14% decrease in lung cancer.
http://www.cancer.org/docroot/NWS/content/NWS_1_1x_California_Lung_Cancer_Rates_Drop_Significantly_.asp

Corpwatch - Tobacco, Free Trade and Globalization

Articles addressing how restricting tobacco is getting harder to do as the world drops trade restrictions and economies become intertwined.
http://corpwatch.org/article.php?list=type&type=109