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Tobacco Courses
Faculty at numerous universities across the country have developed a variety of tobacco and nicotine related courses designed to further the understanding 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: 2004
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
APPROACHES TO INTERNATIONAL TOBACCO CONTROL
Course Number: SHH 249
Category: Tobacco Focus
Last Taught: 2004
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 and the ability to manage large scale tobacco programs.
INTERNATIONAL TOBACCO CONTROL
Course Number: Fall 2
Category: Tobacco Focus
Last Taught: 2003
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; and strategies to curb the marketing and sales of cigarettes at local, state,
national, and international levels.
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Harvard Seminar
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
Organization’s (WHO) Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC).
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Johns Hopkins
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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Roswell Park Cancer Institute
TOBACCO CONTROL
Course Number: PTR/SPM 528
Category: Tobacco Focus
Last Taught: 2005
Tobacco use, mostly in the form of cigarettes, will cause more than 400,000 deaths in the
United States this 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 4 million people die every year from
tobacco-attributable diseases. If current trends continue, approximately 10 million tobaccoattributable
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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UCSF School of Nursing
TOBACCO CONTROL POLICY ISSUES
Course Number: S235
Category: Tobacco Focus
Last Taught: 2005
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 discussion forums.
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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: 2004
*Understanding the spectrum of stratgies 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 modesl 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: 2007
Tobacco is the leading cause of preventable morbidity and avoidable premature mortality in most of
the developed countries of the world and is well on its way to attaining the same dubious distinction
among the developing nations. This course is intended to thoroughly acquaint students with
multiple dimensions of tobacco use, including its health, social, and economic implications, as well
as a host of policy issues. The objective is to impart to students an appreciation of how analysis of
history, epidemiology, health behavior, and policy can be integrated to provide a comprehensive
knowledge base for understanding a major cause of disease and disability and determining how to
reduce it. In this capacity, the expectation is that in addition to giving students a thorough
grounding in the area of tobacco and health, the course should provide students with an excellent
basis for analyzing the various dimensions of other major public health problems.
HMP 618 is a seminar, not a lecture course. This means that the fundamental modus operandi will
be active discussion and debate. Any student who is not willing to participate actively in classroom
discussions should withdraw from the course. The success of the course depends on lively
interaction among all participants and, indeed, individual student grades will rest heavily on such
participation.
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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 South Carolina
TOBACCO PREVENTION AND CONTROL IN PUBLIC HEALTH
Course Number: HPEB 542
Category: Tobacco Focus
Last Taught: 2005
Knowledge and skills for effective tobacco prevention and control practice in public health. Topics addressed include:
*Examining current trends in tobacco use.
*Identifying beliefs and attitudes that shape existing tobacco policies.
*Understanding how different beliefs about tobacco probelms influence policies.
*Describing in depth, factors that shape specific tobacco policies and their impact on reaching public health objectives.
*Developing competence in selected areas of tobacco prevention and control and related publichealth policy issues.
*Identifying effective, evidence-based approaches to tobacco prevention.
*Understanding key issues in tobacco control policy in the United States.
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University of Sydney
TOBACCO CONTROL IN THE 21st CENTURY
Course Number: 1420
Category: Tobacco Focus
Last Taught: 2003
The course has been designed for people wishing to gain state-of-the-art critical understanding of 20 major areas tobacco control. Each component of the course will be designed to provide students with:
•a population health perspective on the tasks and strategies of tobacco control;
•a guided and critical tour of the main policy debates in tobacco control;
•the most frequently asked questions about each topic, linked to resource material that we believe best addresses these suggested directions for future exploration and learning.
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University of Texas
ADDICTIVE BEHAVIOR
Course Number: PH 1410
Category: Tobacco as a Component
Last Taught: 2004
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, health care
professionals often fail to identify and intervene with most of the substance-using clients they
serve. As a result, many opportunities to reduce the suffering of these persons and their families
are lost.
This course provides public health students with a introduction to the epidemiology, etiology,
prevention and treatment of alcohol and drug use disorders. One-half of this course will address
alcohol abuse--the most costly and commonly encountered problem. Other substances will also
be discussed, including cocaine, tobacco, marijuana, opioids, hallucinogens, ecstasy, inhalants,
and caffeine. As a course with a behavioral science emphasis, practical application will be
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 590E
Category: Tobacco Focus
Last Taught: 2005
Tobacco and Public Health: Impact, Prevention, Policy and Social Change is a 10-week (10 session), 3-
credit seminar course, that will meet Wednesdays, 1:30-4:20, Spring Quarter of 2005 (3/30/05-6/8/04).
The course will utilize a multi-level approach to public health by providing a comprehensive overview of
the health effects, history, marketing, politics, and control of tobacco use, combining medical,
psychosocial, epidemiological and economic perspectives to give students a framework for understanding
tobacco addiction and its prevention and treatment. The course content will be delivered primarily by
local and national speakers who are experts in their field. This course will provide the foundation for
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students to begin pursuing a public health career dedicated to diminishing the tremendous toll of tobacco
use and addiction in our society through research, teaching and/or public health practice.
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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: 2005
Measurement issues in chronic disease epidemiology including tobacco.
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