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To improve our understanding how national level tobacco control policies can be used to reduce the harms caused by tobacco

Evaluate the psychosocial and behavioral effects of national-level tobacco control policies in multiple countries.

Gain an empirically-based understanding of how and why national level tobacco control policies influence tobacco-related behavi

Develop an expanded global network of scientists to conduct and contribute to research on tobacco control policies.

Disseminate research findings to inform the development and adoption of future national-level policy initiatives.

Roswell Park TTURC is an International Tobacco Control (ITC) Program collaborative. The ITC is an international collaboration of tobacco control researchers whose mission is to evaluate the psychosocial and behavioral effects of national-level tobacco control policies throughout the world.

 

TTURC Global Research

This Roswell TTURC expands upon our ongoing International Tobacco Control Policy Evaluation Survey (ITCPES), a longitudinal study of smokers in the US, Canada, UK, and Australia.
Three interrelated studies are being implemented. Each study uses multiple country controls, longitudinal designs, and pre-specified, theory-driven mediational models that allow us to test hypotheses about anticipated policy effects.

 

	Project 1 (Tobacco Control Policy Evaluation in Developed Countries; PI – Geoffrey Fong, PhD) add two additional follow-up survey waves to our ongoing 4-country cohort study of 8,300 adult smokers timed to coincide with implementation of tobacco control policies over the next 5 years.
	Project 2 (Tobacco Control Policy Evaluation in Southeast Asia; PI - Ron Borland, PhD) includes an expansion of our 4-country cohort study to Thailand and Malaysia, to test if the same policies effective in developed countries can transfer to developing countries.
	Project 3 (Policy Effects on Cigarette Design, Emissions & Behavior; PI – Richard J. O'Connor, PhD) involves a collaboration with scientists at CDC’s Tobacco Analysis Laboratory to assess how cigarette design and smoke chemistries change in relationship to policies and how product modifications alter smokers’ perceptions, behaviors, and exposures.