LOIS BARBARA BIENER

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..Response rates have been declining in statewide tobacco surveys. This study investigated whether there was associated evidence of increasing bias in smoking prevalence estimates...

..To document the nature and prevalence of tobacco promotions in bars and clubs in a major US city...

..The association between trial and low cessation motivation is an important target for research...

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..We prospectively examined effects of the implementation of a smoking ban in bars on Boston, Massachusetts, smokers...

..This study investigated the relative impact of the broadcast volume (media weight) and the emotional content of an ad as predictors of advertising recall...

..The two largest U.S. cigarette manufacturers introduced Swedish-style low-nitrosamine smokeless tobacco (snus) to several U.S. test markets in summer 2006. Since then, snus brands and test markets have proliferated...

..We assessed the prospective impact of individual, social-normative, and policy predictors of quit attempts and smoking cessation among Massachusetts adults...

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..We examined young adult smoking patterns and receptivity to cigarette advertising to assess vulnerability to tobacco marketing strategies...

..This prospective study examined the effect of tobacco marketing on progression to established smoking...

..Reactions were examined as a function of the message type as well as the respondents' demographics and smoking status...

..Reactions were examined as a function of respondents' demographics, baseline tobacco control attitudes, changes in smoking status during the campaign, and advertisements' affective qualities...

..Failure to demonstrate a significant impact of worksite smoking bans on cessation in this and other studies may be due to poor enforcement of smoking policies...

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..3; 95% CI, 1.1-1.5). This study found no consistent associations between community-level youth access ordinances and adolescents' perceived access to tobacco, purchase attempts, or smoking prevalence...

..To examine the effect of smoking regulations in local restaurants on anti-smoking attitudes and quitting behaviours among adult smokers...

..This exploratory study was designed to assess the availability, price, and point-of-purchase marketing strategies for new smokeless tobacco products in 4 test market areas...

..To test whether community-level restrictions on youth access to tobacco (including both ordinances and enforcement) are associated with less smoking initiation or less progression to established smoking among adolescents...

..We examined the effect of local restaurant smoking regulations on restaurant environmental tobacco smoke exposure among youths...

..In light of the large body of evidence that exposure to tobacco advertising and promotion increases tobacco use among youth, our findings demonstrate the need to close the "adult-only" loophole...

..In this study, we focused on one possible mechanism, namely, the effect of rebelliousness. We examined the extent to which rebelliousness accounts for the relation between smoking and depression among adolescents in Massachusetts...

..We examined the association of local restaurant and bar regulations with self-reported exposure to environmental tobacco smoke among adults...

..Whether they have these effects even if parents smoke or do not otherwise communicate strong disapproval of smoking to their children is not clear. We tested these hypotheses in multi-level analyses...

..To assess the prevalence of nicotine replacement therapy (NRT) use for purposes other than quitting smoking and examine the relation of this non-standard NRT use (NSNRT) with subsequent smoking cessation efforts...

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..The relationship between cigarette consumption and smoking frequency (daily or nondaily) is not well characterized, and the natural history of light smoking (defined here as smoking < or =10 CPD) is poorly understood...

..To assess whether smoke-free restaurant laws influence the progression from (1) never smoking to early experimentation and (2) early experimentation to established smoking...

..This study examined whether the change in nicotine replacement therapy sales from prescription to over the counter (OTC) status affected smoking cessation...

..Implementing and publicizing local regulations may help shape perceptions of community smoking norms...

..The authors examined factors related to public support for cigarette taxes: smoking behavior, attitudes about other tobacco control policies, and sociodemographic factors...

..However, there is a paucity of data published describing physician beliefs about heart failure management, especially in its advanced stages...

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..The long term objective of this project is to provide guidance to states and communities on the most effective ways to design and evaluate tobacco control interventions. ..

..On the other hand, they could reduce cigarette consumption which would lower disease risk. This study provides an initial look at how the population of two cities is responding to the products. ..