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Tobacco Courses
Faculty at numerous universities across the United States, as well as abroad, have developed a variety of tobacco- and nicotine-related courses designed to further the under-standing of this complex subject for students. As a public service, many of these faculty have agreed to post their course syllabi on this website for the use of potential students and faculty colleagues.
Courses are ordered by university and then by instructor's last name. To view the course syllabus, click on the course name.
Please note that the information contained on this site is protected by copyright, and may not be copied without the express permission of the posting instructor.
Boston University
Columbia University
TOBACCO AND PUBLIC HEALTH: POLITICS, POLICY AND PROGRAM APPROACHES TO THE GLOBAL EPIDEMIC
Course Number: SOSC P8752
Category: Tobacco Focus
Last Taught: 2005
Tobacco control is a model for interdisciplinary study in
public health and effective methods for preventing death and disability through multilevel
interventions, including policy regulation. Tobacco remains the number one preventable
cause of death in the United States and in most developed countries. This course will
explicitly contrast the strategies employed by the tobacco industry with those used by public
health professionals. Through the lens of tobacco control, we will critically analyze public
health approaches such as counter-advertising, media promotion, research & information
dissemination, policy development, and program implementation & evaluation. This course
will explore multiple dimensions of tobacco use: health, social, and economic implications
as well as the ethical, legal and scientific debates that have accompanied the development of
tobacco control policies in the U.S and abroad. In addition to giving students a thorough
grounding in the area of tobacco and health, the course will provide students with an
excellent basis for analyzing the various dimensions of other major public health problems
and producing effective multi-level interventions.
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Harvard University
APPROACHES TO INTERNATIONAL TOBACCO CONTROL
Course Number: SHH 249
Category: Tobacco Focus
Last Taught: 2008
Cigarette smoking is the leading cause of preventable mortality and morbidity in the world, responsible for an estimated 420,000 deaths per year in the U.S. alone. This course is designed to: • equip students with core knowledge on issues related to tobacco control - including the epidemiology of tobacco use; • the economics of the transnational tobacco industry; strategies to curb the marketing and sales of cigarettes at local, state, national, and international levels; • ability to manage large scale tobacco programs, conduct tobacco related research and develop a passion and commitment to reduce global death associated with smoking; • conduct health education campaign; • evaluate program and policy outcomes.
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Harvard University
IMPLEMENTING THE WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION'S FRAMEWORK CONVENTION ON TOBACCO CONTROL
Course Number: Executive Program for Senior Level Managers
Category: Tobacco Focus
Last Taught: 2005
Participants will understand how this course will be presented,
including the role of classroom sessions, debates and presentations. They will learn
about the faculty and staff. They will also be introduced to the World Health
Organizations (WHO) Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC).
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Johns Hopkins University
TOBACCO CONTROL: NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL APPROACHES
Course Number: 340.615.11
Category: Tobacco Focus
Last Taught: 2004
This course provides an introduction to global tobacco control. It presents the
health and economic burden of tobacco use worldwide and highlights practical
approaches to tobacco prevention, control, surveillance and evaluation using a
systematic approach based on the main actors involved in tobacco control.
Through lectures, problem-solving exercises and discussion, the course examines
transnational tobacco control issues, including: the interpretation and packaging of
epidemiologic evidence for policy makers, the determinants of tobacco addiction,
the economics of global tobacco control, tobacco industry strategies, legal
foundations for regulation, and basic surveillance and evaluation methods.
Upon completion of this course students should:
•Understand the scope of the health and economic burden of tobacco use
worldwide;
•Be able to interpret and present study data on smoking and disease;
•Understand the legal foundation for tobacco control regulations;
•Be able to describe the components of a comprehensive tobacco control
strategy;
•Be able to critically evaluate tobacco control intervention strategies;
•Know how to access information resources on tobacco and health.
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Jonathan Samet, MD, MS and Frances Stillman, EdD, EdM |
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jsamet@jhsph.edu |
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ALCOHOL, TOBACCO, ILLICIT DRUGS AND PUBLIC HEALTH
Course Number: 330.644
Category: Tobacco as a Component
Last Taught: 2004
The goal is for participants to gain a greater understanding of drugs (including alcohol and
tobacco), their effects and consequences. Predominant themes that lead to achieving this goal are
keen listening, teamwork, and self-reflection of your own attitudes towards drug use and
dependence.
This course is designed to help participants understand the public health impact of drug
involvement and introduce them to several research studies in a field that encompasses a
multidisciplinary approach to understanding the complexities of being involved with drugs. A
dynamic learning experience will be created via presentations by guest lecturers, student
presentations, discussions, weekly exercises, and drug information summaries produced by the
participants.
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Shahid Beheshti Medical Science University (Iran)
Tobacco Control
Course Number: N/A
Category: Tobacco Focus
Last Taught: 2008
A new MPH (Master of Public Health) course on Tobacco Control has been established in Iran. It is for the first time in the Eastern Mediterranean Region Organization (EMRO) that a specific course on Tobacco Control has been offered. This course has been established by the Tobacco Prevention and Control Research Center (TPCRC), affiliated with Shahid Beheshti Medical Science University under the supervision of the Ministry of Health and Medical Education in Iran. The duration of this course is one academic year. The credit hours of this course are 43. The first semester consists of 23 credit hours and the latter 20. All students should have a research proposal on Tobacco Control at the beginning of the course and at the end all students must have carried out this thesis practically. Four credit hours in practice are on the premises of the smoking cessation clinic of the Tobacco Prevention and Control Research Center. The main Topics of Tobacco Control MPH are: Smoking Epidemiology; Harmful Effects of Smoking; Smoking Cessation Methods; Tobacco Control Programs; Economics and Smoking; Tobacco Smoking in The World; Prevention of Smoking Initiation; Psychological Health; Smoking and International Laws, including the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) and the Comprehensive National Tobacco Control Law in Iran; and the Smoking Management Program in PHC.
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Southern Illinois University Carbondale
Tobacco Free! Curriculum
Course Number: N/A
Category: Tobacco Focus
Last Taught: 2009
Dental/dental hygiene collegiate educators know the importance of addressing tobacco use in the dental health curriculum. A major barrier to providing this curriculum is time -- or lack of it -- to research and develop a comprehensive tobacco control curriculum. Tobacco Free! Curriculum © Davis 2004-2006, formerly Leading the Way, Helping Our Patients be Tobacco Free, has been carefully researched and developed to provide dental/dental hygiene educators with a ready made, comprehensive tobacco control curriculum. The curriculum includes: Faculty Curriculum Guide; six training modules with talking notes; Toolbox. These components can be downloaded from this site at NO CHARGE.
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State University of New York at Buffalo
TOBACCO CONTROL
Course Number: HB 528
Category: Tobacco Focus
Last Taught: 2008
Tobacco use, mostly in the form of cigarettes, has caused more than 15 million deaths in the United States since the release of the first Surgeon General’s report in 1964, including more than 400,000 deaths in the United States every year. More than 8 million Americans currently experience one or more serious illnesses (e.g., heart disease, stroke, lung cancer, other cancers, chronic respiratory diseases) caused by their smoking. Worldwide, about 5 million people die every year from tobacco-attributable diseases. If current trends continue, approximately 10 million annual tobacco-attributable deaths will occur worldwide by 2030, with most occurring in developing countries. Tobacco control has emerged as a significant component of public health practice, having already postponed millions of deaths. The potential is far greater. There is an urgent need for worldwide implementation of effective tobacco-control strategies that will prevent initiation, promote quitting, and protect nonsmokers. The science base of tobacco control has expanded considerably in the past decade. This course is designed to teach students about that research so that they will have a clear understanding of the patterns, determinants, and consequences of tobacco use; as well as of techniques available to reduce tobacco use and tobacco-attributable morbidity and mortality.
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Texas A&M
SEMINAR ON ISSUES IN TOBACCO CONTROL
Course Number: PHSB 689
Category: Tobacco Focus
Last Taught: 2001
This course is designed to provide students with an overview of current issues
related to tobacco use and control. At the conclusion of the course, students will have a better
understanding of the history, behavioral and biological aspects, marketing and policy issues related to
tobacco as a public health issue in the United States today.
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University of Auckland
TOBACCO CONTROL
Course Number: POPLHLTH 753
Category: Tobacco Focus
Last Taught: 2008
The School of Population Health at the University of Auckland is a lead organisation in the field of tobacco control research in New Zealand. In addition to many individual researchers in the field it has a specialist unit devoted to tobacco research. This course introduces students to theory and research developed within public health and epidemiological contexts that are related to tobacco control. Students will review major theoretical issues and will consider current trends and future challenges to Tobacco Control. Topics covered will relate to three main themes: (1) Reducing initiation, (2) Interventions to reduce smoking related harm, and (3) Smoking cessation and treatment of nicotine dependency.
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University of California, San Francisco, School of Nursing
TOBACCO CONTROL POLICY ISSUES
Course Number: S235
Category: Tobacco Focus
Last Taught: 2008
This course will focus on developing students’ understanding of the key issues in and evolution of tobacco control policies in the United States and internationally. Lectures and readings in the history of tobacco control will prepare students to engage in weekly discussions and prepare case studies of particular tobacco control policies.
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University of Kansas Medical Center
PUBLIC HEALTH APPROACHES:ASSESSMENT, ASSURANCE, POLICY DEVELOPMENT and POLITICS OF TOBACCO: LEGISLATION, REGULATION and LITIGATION
Course Number: PRVM 806
Category: Tobacco Focus
Last Taught: 2008
*Understanding the spectrum of strategies for addressing tobacco use in the US
*Assess how the core functions of public health have supported tobacco control
*Compare the similarities and differences between two models for evidence-based comprehensive tobacco control
*Understand the history of policy efforts to curb tobacco
*Describe how legislation, regulation, and litigation have been used to implement tobacco control strategies (taxation, marketing constraints, federal regulation, checks on youth access, curbs on secondhand smoke, litigation, global regulation)
*Consider how best to support local ordinances, state and federal legislation
*Examine the costs and potential side-effects of litigation as a public health strategy
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University of Michigan
TOBACCO: FROM SEEDLING TO SOCIAL POLICY
Course Number: HMP 618
Category: Tobacco Focus
Last Taught: 2012
Tobacco is the leading cause of preventable morbidity and premature mortality. Tobacco use also infuses many aspects of life, society, culture and commerce. This course acquaints students with multiple dimensions of tobacco use, including its health, social, economic, policy and legal implications. It seeks to impart an appreciation of how analysis of history, health science, health behavior, industry behavior and culture can be integrated to provide a comprehensive knowledge base for understanding a major cause of disease and disability and how to combat it.
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University of Oklahoma College
PUBLIC HEALTH STRATEGIES FOR TOBACCO CONTROL
Course Number: CPH 7633
Category: Tobacco Focus
Last Taught: 2006
This course provides an overview of the history, health effects, politics, and prevention of tobacco abuse. This interdisciplinary course is designed for MPH students who have completed the public health core courses and are prepared to examine tobacco abuse from all perspectives: epidemiological, psychosocial, political, economic and environmental. Through readings, presentations, case studies, and projects, students will explore the multidimensional aspects of tobacco abuse and their implications for public health.
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University of Queensland
TOBACCO CESSATION AND CONTROL
Course Number: PUBH7124 - Sem 2 2008
Category: Tobacco Focus
Last Taught: 2008
The four modules contained in this course will describe the history of the 20th century tobacco smoking epidemic and the consequences for population health and public policy. This course equips you with a detailed understanding of tobacco use and tobacco related harm in Australia and other countries, and tobacco control policy and programs at the regional, national and international level. The course also enables you to develop effective policies and strategies for increasing tobacco cessation and preventing uptake at the population level.
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University of South Carolina
TOBACCO PREVENTION AND CONTROL IN PUBLIC HEALTH: CONSUMPTION, CONFLICT AND CHANGE
Course Number: HPEB 542
Category: Tobacco Focus
Last Taught: 2008
The first part of the course aims to introduce students to the cultural history of tobacco use, including changing patterns of tobacco production and consumption (e.g., snuff, chewing tobacco, pipes, cigarettes; consumption within and across social groups; shifting contexts of use) and the meanings associated with tobacco use in mass media (e.g., advertising imagery of the “smoker”; representation in non-advertising media), science (e.g., risk; addiction; harm to non-smokers), and law (e.g., industry practices that hid the risks of cigarettes; “vulnerable populations”; consumer choice and rights; non-smokers’ rights to clean air). The second half of the course will focus in greater detail on the range of public health responses to combat tobacco use (e.g., taxes, advertising restrictions, smoke-free policies, communication interventions), with a particular emphasis on the evidence for their impact and the cultural assumptions that underpin them. The final part of the course will address the globalization of the tobacco epidemic, the increasingly transnational tobacco industry & global public health responses to combat the tobacco epidemic.
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University of Sydney
TOBACCO CONTROL IN THE 21st CENTURY
Course Number: PUBH5418
Category: Tobacco Focus
Last Taught: 2008
Aim: To provide state-of-the-art critical understanding of significant issues in tobacco
control.
At the end of the unit students will be able to:
* identify the epidemiology of tobacco use and the burden of illness from tobacco
use
* describe social, legal, economic and environmental aspects of tobacco use and
tobacco control;
* identify a population perspective on the tasks and strategies of tobacco control
* identify and analyse the main policy debates on tobacco control
* identify, analyse and plan strategies and interventions for tobacco control
* suggest future directions for tobacco control.
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University of Texas
ADDICTIVE BEHAVIOR
Course Number: PH 1410
Category: Tobacco as a Component
Last Taught: 2007
Alcohol and other drug use is ubiquitous in the United States, and leads to significant personal, familial, social and economic consequences. Substance abuse is especially likely to affect members of disadvantaged groups, which further complicates their ability to cope with stressful life circumstances. Although substance use disorders are prevalent and identifiable, public health professionals often fail to identify and intervene with their substance-using clients. As a result, many opportunities to reduce the suffering of these persons and their families are lost. This course provides public health students with an introduction to the epidemiology, etiology, prevention and treatment of alcohol and other drug use disorders. As a course with a behavioral science emphasis, practical application is emphasized, both through classroom discussions and out-of-class assignments.
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University of Washington
TOBACCO AND PUBLIC HEALTH: IMPACT, PREVENTION, POLICY AND SOCIAL CHANGE
Course Number: HSERV 590 B
Category: Tobacco Focus
Last Taught: 2008
This course provides an overview of the history, health effects, politics, policy, treatment and
prevention of tobacco use, combining medical, psychosocial, epidemiological and economic
perspectives. The course will feature expert speakers, readings, and assignments that give
students a framework for understanding the epidemic of tobacco addiction and its impact on
multiple dimensions of public health. Lessons regarding behavior change, social determinants
of health and tobacco use, health disparities, global impact and politics, epidemiologic research, development of public policy and community-based interventions can all be gleaned from the study of the tobacco epidemic and efforts to reduce tobacco use and related diseases. This course is part of the UW Tobacco Studies Program (UW TSP), which is now in its 6th year, and currently funded by a non-restricted medical education grant from the Pfizer Medical
Education Group. Grant funding enables us to host nationally and internationally renowned experts in fields of tobacco treatment, prevention and policy and provide financial support for graduate students interested in pursuing a career in tobacco control or related research. We welcome guests from local tobacco prevention, treatment and research organizations to attend individual classes, adding to this unique academic-community partnership.
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Abigail Halperin, M.D., M.P.H. and Karin Riggs, M.S.W. |
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abigail@u.washington.edu |
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206-616-4482 and 206-616-3767 |
INTEGRATIVE SEMINAR ON HEALTH DISPARITIES: THE CASE OF TOBACCO
Course Number: SOC W 598, SLN 17636, HSERV 590, PSYCH 550
Category: Tobacco Focus
Last Taught: 2008
This seminar will introduce multiple disciplinary perspectives on, potential explanations of and interventions for health disparities. We will apply seminal readings in the field of health disparities to the case of tobacco use and tobacco related disease to make discussions more concrete and potentially impactful. This course is dually relevant for scholars interested in health disparities generally and for those interested in tobacco related disparities. Why focus on health disparities in the context of tobacco use and prevention? Cigarette smoking is the single most preventable cause of disease and death in the nation and in Washington State. Some demographic groups have higher smoking rates than others, and other groups have lower overall smoking rates but suffer disproportionately from tobacco related morbidity and mortality. Demographic groups suffering from tobacco related health disparities include those defined by socioeconomic position, race or ethnicity, disability, geographic location, sexual orientation or gender identity and age. Local and nationally know scholars in health disparities will serve as discussants in the seminar.
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Jennifer Stuber, Ph.D., Brian Flaherty, Ph.D. and Karin Riggs, M.S.W. |
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jstuber@u.washington.edu |
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(206) 616-3874, (206) 616-0402 and (206) 616-3767 |
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Yale University
TOBACCO: A GLOBAL HEALTH CHALLENGE
Course Number: GHD-555B
Category: Tobacco Focus
Last Taught: 2004
Course Objectives: After taking this seminar, students will be able to: •understand the global and historical context in which tobacco has become a staple of human consumption; •summarize the origins of estimated and projected mortality figures for the world's population now and in decades to come; •recognize the full range of diseases caused by and associated with tobacco, along with their physiological mechanisms; •know why and how the modern cigarette is one of the most engineered consumer products ever made, and the role of nicotine in addiction; •evaluate the means by which the tobacco industry encourages smoking, especially among the young, women, the poor, and citizens of developing countries; •understand the economics behind tobacco use, including agricultural economies dependent on tobacco; •define and debate the validity of harm reduction as a means to reduce the risks of tobacco-use; the reasons behind the failed promise of "light" and "mild" cigarettes; •understand the science and consequences of passive (second-hand) smoke and the political debates around bans on smoking in public places; •describe comprehensive tobacco control strategies and policies; understand the role of the World Health Organization and many Non-Governmental Organizations leading the fight against the tobacco industry and tobacco-use, including the newly-signed but not yet ratified international Framework Treaty on Tobacco Control (FCTC); •recognize the origin and value of heretofore secret tobacco industry documents now available on the Internet; •discuss cogently the economic and civil liberties issues surrounding tobacco control: free choice vs. government obligation to protect the public's health; free speech vs. bans on advertising; cost to society of smoking vs. cost to society of not-smoking.
MEASUREMENT ISSUES IN CHRONIC DISEASE EPIDEMIOLOGY
Course Number: CDE 523b
Category: Tobacco as a Component
Last Taught: 2008
Learning objectives: *Students will comprehend the impact of measurement error on epidemiologic study findings; *Students will describe and apply current approaches for measuring common exposures such as tobacco, alcohol, physical activity, diet, race, environmental exposures,
and psychosocial variables; *Students will describe and apply how chronic disease outcomes are measured/classified for chronic disease epidemiology research studies; *Students will integrate the concepts above to critically evaluate literature in chronic disease epidemiology; *Students will identify existing questionnaires/data collection methods for
epidemiologic research; or adapt existing questionnaires/data collection methods
as needed to support research endeavors.
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