1. The International Tobacco Control
Policy Evaluation Project
Volume 1, Issue 1: March 2011 The ITC Project Monthly Newsletter
Welcome to the first monthly newsletter
ITC Project Monthly Newsletter: The Wave!
of the ITC Project. This newsletter is
This newsletter is the result of ITC investigator held meetings at the University of
initially being emailed to all ITC
Waterloo before SRNT. It will consist of two parts: the main newsletter and a
investigators and those who have
second cumulating document which will catalogue achievements for the year.
internal data agreements. It can also
be sent to support staff and others. If
you wish to add someone to the mailing
list or make a submission, please send
an email to itc@uwaterloo.ca
The Wave will often refer to material
on the ITC website (www.itcproject.org).
Please note that underlined text is
hyperlinked to material online. If
you are not a registered user, please
send an email to Katy McEwen ITC Project team at the SRNT 17th Annual Meeting, February 2011, Toronto.
(klmcewen@uwaterloo.ca) to request
Pre-SRNT Meetings
an invitation.
ITC collaborators met in Waterloo on February 14-15th, 2011. Outcomes included
decisions to more systematically to explore the viability of both recruiting from
The information is intended to keep
existing lists of smokers and switching survey mode in high income countries from
ITC collaborators across 20
telephone to predominantly or exclusively internet-based surveying. Anyone with
countries up-to-date on what we are
thoughts on this or relevant information should contact Mary Thompson at
doing and achieving—particularly
methomps@uwaterloo.ca.
in the area of paper proposals and
presentations. However, the ITC
Publishing Opportunity
Project is all of you, so YOU have to
The journal Drug and Alcohol Review will be publishing a special issue on smoking
tell us about what you are doing
in disadvantaged groups. This would be a good opportunity to look at data we
so the newsletter can tell
have from the lower SES groups within our LMICs as well as within our HICs. If you
everybody else. You can offer
are interested, contact Ron Borland at ron.borland@cancervic.org.au.
anything you think might be of
interest, but we are particularly
The Tobacco Research Network on Disparities (TReND) is and the journal Cancer
interested in material under the
Causes and Control has issued an international call for papers that address the
topics listed. Please send any
role of social stratification in tobacco-related inequalities. Initial manuscript
submissions to itc@uwaterloo.ca
submissions are due April 18, 2011. Click here for more information.
2011 John Slade Award Tobacco Control Intelligence System
Frank Chaloupka was named the The interactive website developed by
Announcements 1 2011 recipient of the John Slade Award Dr. David Young at Cancer Council
Papers Published 2 at SRNT, which recognizes outstanding Victoria, which aims to present
National Reports 2 contributions to public health and research evidence in an innovative
Grants 2 tobacco control. Frank gave a practitioner-friendly format, is
ITC in the News 3 wonderful acceptance speech, which nearing the end of its license period.
Presentations 3 was made more special by the surprise Please check the website and let us
Paper Proposals 3 arrival of his wife, Uchelle. know what you think about its future
Policy Updates 4 Congratulations, Frank! use.
Reminders 4
Designed and coordinated by Tania Cheng.
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2. The following are papers were published from January to February 2011. In future issues, only papers
published in the previous month will be listed. For a full list of all publications to date, see the 2011
ITC Academic Papers List on our website. ITC Achievements
Fix B, Hyland A, Rivard C, McNeill A, Fong GT, Borland R, Hammond D, Cummings KM. Usage patterns
to Date
of stop smoking medications in Australia, Canada, the United Kingdom, and the United States: Findings
from the 2006-2008 International Tobacco Control (ITC) Four Country Survey. International Journal of 9 papers
19 posters
Environmental Research and Public Health 2011, 8, 222-233.
Kasza K, Hyland A, Brown A, Siapush M, Yong HH, McNeill A, Li L, Cummings KM. The Effectiveness of
Tobacco Marketing Regulations on Reducing Smokers’ Exposure to Advertising and Promotion:
Findings from the International Tobacco Control (ITC) Four Country Survey. International Journal of
11 presentations
Environmental Research and Public Health 2011, 8, 1-x manuscripts; doi:10.3390/ijerph70x000x.
1 national
King BA, Hyland AJ, Borland R, McNeill A, Cummings KM. Socioeconomic Variation in the
Prevalence, Introduction, Retention, and Removal of Smoke-Free Policies among Smokers: Findings
report
from the International Tobacco Control (ITC) Four Country Survey. International Journal of
Environmental Research and Public Health 2011, 7, 1-x manuscripts; doi:10.2290/ijerph70x000x. 1 grant
Licht AS, Hyland AJ, O’Connor RJ, Chaloupka FJ, Borland R, Fong GT, Nargis N, Cummings KM. Socio-economic variation
in price minimizing behaviors: Findings from the International Tobacco Control (ITC) Four Country Survey. International Journal
of Environmental Research and Public Health 2011, 8, 234-252.
O’Connor RJ, Norton KJ, Bansal-Travers M, Mahoney MC, Cummings KM, Borland R. US smokers’ reactions to a brief trial of oral nico-
tine products. Harm Reduction Journal 2011, 8:1 doi:10.1186/1477-7517-8-1.
Seidenberg AB, Rees VW, Alpert HR, O'Connor RJ, Connolly GN. Ignition strength of 25 international cigarette brands. Tobacco Control
2011, 20(1):77-80. PMID:20974622.
Sirirassamee T, Sirirassamee B, Borland R, Omar M, Driezen P. Smoking behavior among adolescents in Thailand and Malaysia. The
Southeast Asian Journal of Tropical Medicine and Public Health, 2011, 42(1), 218-225.
Yang J, Hammond D, Driezen P, O’Connor RJ, Li Q, Yong HH, Fong GT, & Jiang Y. The use of cessation assistance among smokers
from China: Findings from the ITC China Survey, BMC Public Health 2011, 11:75, doi:10.1186/1471-2458-11-75.
Zhang JY, Borland R, Coghill K, Petrovic-Lazarevic S, Young D, Yeh CH, Bedingfield S. Evaluating the effect of health warnings
in influencing Australian smokers’ psychosocial and quitting behaviours using Fuzzy causal network. Expert Systems with
Applications 2011, 38: 6430-6438.
Downloadable PDFs of all ITC National Reports are
available at ITC National Reports. The following NHMRC (Ron Borland): Four years of funding for Australia in the 4C study.
National Report was released in 2011. In future is-
sues, only National Reports released in the previous ZonMw (Marc Willemsen): For continuation of the ITC Netherlands Survey
month will be listed. (Waves 6-8).
FP7 program of the European Community (Marc Willemsen): To conduct
secondary data analyses on ITC EU data, looking at differential effects of
ITC Mauritius National Report. Results of the Wave 2
policies on SES groups.
Survey.(January 2011). University of Waterloo,
CIHR (Geoff Fong): For continuation of ITC surveys in Canada and the US and
Ontario, Canada; Mauritius Institute of Health (MIH),
in 9 LMICs, and the addition of Kenya, Nigeria, and Zambia. Submitted
Pamplemousses, Mauritius.
March 1st.
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3. This section will include media mentions and other publicity.
Please send submissions to itc@uwaterloo.ca.
For the full list of 2011 presentations to date,
please see the Conference Presentations Citation
List.
SPSP San Antonio
Fotuhi O, Fong GT. Social stigmatization on intentions
The following paper proposals were approved last month:
to quit among smokers. Poster presented at the 12th
Brown, McNeill, Moodie, Hastings et al. Smokers' beliefs
Annual Meeting of the Society for Personality and Social
about light cigarettes: Findings from France, Germany,
Psychology. San Antonio, Texas, 2011, January.
Ireland and the United Kingdom. Data sets: FR (W1-2), DE
(W1-2), IE (W1-2), UK (W2-4).
SRNT Toronto
11 oral presentations (including 2 symposia) and 18 poster Brown, McNeill, Moodie, et al. Effects of pro-tobacco and
presentations were given at the Society for Research on anti-smoking advertising on adult smoking behaviour.
Nicotine and Tobacco (SRNT) 17th Annual Meeting held in Findings from the ITC Europe Surveys. Data sets: FR (W1-
Toronto, Ontario from February 16-19, 2011. See the 2), DE (W1-2), IE (W1-2), NL (W1-2).
Conference Presentations Citation List for the full list of ITC O’Connor, Borland, Cummings, Fong, Hyland, et al.
related presentations. Awareness, Perceptions, and Use of Electronic Cigarettes in
Four Countries. Data sets: 4C (W8).
Kennedy, Spafford, Fong, Borland, et al. Evaluation of the
Australian warning label "Smoking Causes Blindness" -
Findings from the ITC 4 Country Study. Data sets: 4C (W3-8).
Paper proposals are supposed to result in the paper being
submitted within 9 months of approval. In the future, proposals
entering their last month will be listed here. If the lead author
wants to retain the paper, they need to request an extension by
emailing the appropriate group (see ITC Paper and Presentation
Policy). Where there is a circulated draft, there will be an
automatic initial 3-month extension. Extensions for papers
without a draft or subsequent extensions will not be automatic.
Brian Fix of Roswell Park Cancer Institute presenting his poster at For this first newsletter, we are attaching a document listing all
SRNT Toronto, February 2011. paper proposals that have been listed on the tracking sheets
over the past few years. The document has been organized by
region. All investigators need to review this list and inform us if
ECToH Amsterdam you would like an extension to complete a paper that has been
An ITC symposium will be held at the European Conference on listed over 9 months ago in your name. Otherwise the paper will
Tobacco or Health in Amsterdam from March 28-30, 2011. The be considered dormant and others may take it up.
symposium “Minimizing Exposure to Second-hand Smoke:
Findings from the International Tobacco Control Policy Evaluation
(ITC) Project" will be chaired by Ann McNeill and Marc Willemsen. In the future, this will list papers that are now open to others to
Speakers include Geoffrey Fong on ITC findings outside Europe, take up. They are listed here to let people know that papers they
new frontiers, and basic principles for successful smoke-free might have been expecting are not happening.
initiatives; Sara Hitchman on smoking in cars with non-smokers;
For this issue, see the attached document.
Gera Nagelhout on prevalence and predictors of smoke-free
bars; and Ute Mons on prevalence and predictors of home
smoking bans.
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4. Canada Some sections of the newsletter
On February 18, 2011, Health Canada released the full proposed set of 16 exterior health include links to the ITC website. If
warnings, 8 interior messages, as well as 4 side panel toxic emission messages. All of you are not a registered user, send
these can now all be in seen on Health Canada's website. There is a 75-day consultation an email to
period that ends May 5, 2011 for the draft regulations and proposed messages. klmcewen@uwaterloo.ca
Review the attached paper
proposal document and inform us
of any changes or requests for
extension.
Send any submissions for the April
2011 issue to itc@uwaterloo.ca
Please put “Newsletter” in the
subject headline.
Ron Borland of The Cancer Council Victoria presenting at the Pre-SRNT meeting in
Waterloo, February 2011.
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