Tag: Tobacco
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Joshua Rhee, University of California, Irvine – Tobacco and Cannabis Retailer Locations
On this Student Spotlight: Location matters, especially so for tobacco retailers. Joshua Rhee, Ph. D student in Public Health at the University of California, Irvine, discusses why location matters so much to certain communities. Joshua Rhee is a PhD student in Public Health with a concentration in Disease Prevention at UCI. Rhee holds a master’s…
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Keith Humphreys, Stanford University – Alternative Tobacco Products
Alternative tobacco products are on the rise. Keith Humphreys, professor of psychiatry at Stanford University, discusses a form of smokeless tobacco that is catching on overseas. Keith Humphreys is a Professor and the Section Director for Mental Health Policy in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University. He is also a Senior…
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Lauren Dutra, University of California, San Francisco – E-Cigs and Real Cigs
E-Cigarettes are rapidly gaining popularity. Lauren Dutra, post-doctoral scholar at the University of California, San Francisco’s School of Medicine, is studying the correlation between usages of these different tobacco products. Lauren Dutra’s research interests include disparities in smoking and smoking-related disease, the targeted marketing of vulnerable populations by tobacco companies, and new tobacco products, such…