"The
Tobacco Addiction Collaborative Review group of the Cochrane
Collaboration"
Project Summary and Objectives:
To support the administration of the Tobacco Addiction Review Group of the Cochrane Collaboration, which will co-ordinate the preparation, dissemination and regular updating of systematic reviews in the following areas:
| Smoking cessation methods | |
| a) | nicotine replacement therapy |
| b) | non-nicotine pharmacotherapies |
| c) | physician advice |
| d) | nurse advice |
| e) | effects of training health professionals |
| f) | acupuncture |
| g) | hypnosis |
| h) | behavioural therapy |
| i) | interventions involving high risk individuals (pregnancy, IHD) |
| Smoking prevention methods | |
| a) | school and community based interventions to prevent smoking initiation in young people |
| b) | advertising control for prevention or delay of smoking initiation |
| c) | mass media interventions to prevent or delay smoking initiation |
| d) | effect price and tax increases on smoking behaviour |
| e) | effect of retailer education/control on sales of cigarettes to young people |
Outputs to date:
Funding for this project finished on
31st August 1998. All outputs are available on the Cochrane
Library.
Further information can
be obtained from:
Dr Tim Lancaster
Co-ordinating Editor
Tobacco Addiction Review Group
Cancer Research UK General Practice Research Group
Division of Public Health
& Primary Health Care
Institute of Health Sciences
University of Oxford
Old Road
Headington
Oxford, OX3 7LF
UK
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Last updated 22 November 2004
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