Project 1 - International Tobacco Control
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.
The initial phase of the ITC Project is a random-digit-dialed phone survey of over 8,000 adult smokers throughout four countries: Canada, United States, United Kingdom, and Australia.This initial study follows a panel of participants over the next five years, and incorporates Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) that are likely to be implemented over the next four years in at least one of the four countries with a series of multiple natural experiments. The study focuses not only on whether a given policy has its desired effect, but also on how and why those policy effects are achieved.
The ITC Research Team includes tobacco control researchers across the four countries.
The Principal Investigators are:
- Geoffrey Fong, University of Waterloo, Canada
- Ron Borland, The Cancer Council Victoria, Australia
- Michael Cummings, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, United States
- Gerard Hastings, University of Stirling, United Kingdom
Co-Investigators are:
- Ann McNeill and Susan Anderson, United Kingdom
- Gary Giovino, Andrew Hyland, Frank Chaloupka, Fritz Laux, and Hana Ross, United States
- Mary Thompson, Steve Brown, David Hammond,Sharon Campbell, Mark Zanna, and Paul McDonald, Canada
- Mohammad Siahpush and Melanie Wakefield, Australia