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"Accepting tobacco cash clouds U of A's ethics policy, credibility" - Sheila Pratt - Edmonton Journal, Nov 20, 2005. And response
Accortt NA, Waterbor JW, Beall C & Howard G. 2005. Cancer incidence among a cohort of smokeless tobacco users (United States). Cancer Causes & Control 16(9): 1107-15. Abstract.
Addictive Personality. Interview in the Guardian . Stanton Peele.
Alcabes, Phillip - Blowing smoke about tobacco
American Council on Science and Health
Ames B. & Gold LS. 2000. Paracelsus to parascience: the environmental cancer distraction. Mutation Research 447: 3-13.
Analysis of relative risks and levels of risk in Canada by Ron Law.
Anti-smoking advocates and harm reduction.
Apply federal research rules on deception to misleading health information: an example on smokeless tobacco and cigarettes. Kozlowski LT & O'Connor RJ. 2003. Public Health Reports 118:187-192.
Assessment of Swedish snus for tobacco harm reduction: an epidemiological modelling study. Gartner CE, Hall WD, Vos T, Bertram MY, Wallace AL & Lim SS. 2007. www.thelancet.com.
Assumptions about drugs and the marketing of drug policies by Stanton Peele. 1995. In: W.K. Bickel & R.J. DeGrandpre, Drug Policy and Human Nature, New York: Plenum pp. 199-220.
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Benowitz N. 1996. Pharmacology of nicotine: addiction and therapeutics. Annual Reviews in Pharmocology and Toxicology 1996, 36:597-613. Abstract.
Blowing smoke about tobacco by Phillip Alcabes
Bouquot JE & Meckstroth RL. 1998. Oral cancer in a tobacco-chewing US population - no apparent increased incidence or mortality. Oral Surgery Oral Medicine Oral Pathology Oral Radiology and Endodontology 86: 697-706. Abstract.
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Calculating the comparative mortality risk from smokeless tobacco versus smoking. Phillips CV, Rabiu D & Rodu B.
Cancer incidence among a cohort of smokeless tobacco users (United States). Accortt NA, Waterbor JW, Beall C & Howard G. 2005. Cancer Causes & Control 16(9): 1107-15. Abstract.
Carlisle JK. 2003. The dangerous anti-smoking lobby: how its "quit or die" hostility to all tobacco products harms public health. Organization Trends July.
Causes of cancer in the world: comparative risk assessment of nine behavioural and environmental risk factors. Danaei G, Vander Hoorn S, Lopez AD, Murray CJL, & Ezzati M. 2005. Lancet 366: 1784-93. Abstract.
The chemicals in smokeless tobacco.
Cigarette smoking: an epidemiological overview. Wald NJ & Hackshaw AK. 1996. British Medical Bulletin 52 (1):3-11.
Cigarette smoking-related mortality. 2006. National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion.
Cigarettes:what the warning label doesn't tell you. Meister Kathleen (Ed) 2003. American Council on Science and Health.
Cohen BL. 2002. How to rank risks. American Council on Science and Health.
Critchley JA & Unal B. 2003. Health effects associated with smokeless tobacco: a systematic review. Thorax 58:435-443. Abstract.
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Danaei G, Vander Hoorn S, Lopez AD, Murray CJL, & Ezzati M. 2005. Causes of cancer in the world: comparative risk assessment of nine behavioural and environmental risk factors. Lancet 366: 1784-93. Abstract.
The dangerous anti-smoking lobby: how its "quit or die" hostility to all tobacco products harms public health. Carlisle JK. 2003. Organization Trends.
Deconstructing anti-harm-reduction metaphors; mortality risk from falls and other traumatic injuries compared to smokeless tobacco use. Phillips CV, Guenzel B & Bergen P. 2006. Harm Reduction Journal 3:15.
DeGregori TR. 2007. Maddening Media Misinformation on Biotech and Industrial Agriculture. American Council on Science and Health.
Disparities between public health educational materials and the scientific evidence that smokeless tobacco use causes cancer. Waterbor, JW, Adams RM, Robinson JM, Crabtree FG, Accort NA, Gilliland J. 2004. Journal of Cancer Education 19(1):17-28. Abstract.
Doll R. 1998. Uncovering the effects of smoking: historical perspective. Statistical Methods in Medical Research 7: 87-117.
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Effect of smokeless tobacco (snus) on smoking and public health in Sweden. Foulds J, Ramstrom L, Burke M & Fagerstrom K. 2003. Tobacco Control 12: 349-359. Abstract.
Edmonton Journal
Nov 8, 2005 "Tobacco company funds U of A prof: Researcher endorses chewing tobacco" - Susan Ruttan - And response
Nov 9, 2005 "Smokeless tobacco reduces risk of cancer"- Carl V. Phillips - Letter
Nov 9, 2005 "Terrible optics on tobacco study" And response
Nov 9, 2005 "U of A tobacco research comes under fire from within: $1.5-million grant taints school's reputation, health ethicist says" - Susan Ruttan - And response
Nov 9, 2005 "Grant is a boon to university, city"- W. Andrew Harrell - Letter
Nov 13, 2005 "Smokeless tobacco is less risky" - Brad Rodu - Letter
Nov 15, 2005 "Ethics and university research" - Brendan Leier Letter
Nov 20, 2005 "Accepting tobacco cash clouds U of A's ethics policy, credibility"- Sheila Pratt - And response
"Ethics and university research" - Brendan Leier - Edmonton Journal, November 15, 2005. Letter
European Union policy on smokeless tobacco. Royal College of Physicians. 2003.
An example of "publication bias in situ": Alguacil and Silverman's (2004) study of smokeless tobacco and pancreatic cancer by Carl V. Phillips
Evolving patterns of tobacco use in northern Sweden. Rodu B, Stegmayr B, Nasic S, Cole P & Asplund K. 2003. Journal of Internal Medicine 253: 660-665.
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Fedio Chloe - "Researcher defends grant to study smokeless tobacco"- The Gateway, November 17, 2005. Article
Folkhalsorapport 2005-04-28. Swedish National Board of Health. 2005. (This report describes the tobacco use patterns and health in Sweden).
Food Insight 1999. Worth the risk - putting activities in perspective.
Foulds J, Ramstrom L, Burke M & Fagerstrom K. 2003. Effect of smokeless tobacco (snus) on smoking and public health in Sweden. Tobacco Control 12: 349-359. Abstract.
The Four Commandments of the Anti-Smoking Movement: A Tribute to the Memory and Legacy of Gian Turci . Siegel M. 2009. Rest of the Story (March 11).
Frydenlund JE. 2004. A new health threat: federally-funded health policy based on junk science.
Furberg H, Bulik CM, Lerman C, Lichtenstein P, Pedersen NL,& Sullivan PF. 2005. Is Swedish snus associated with smoking initiation or smoking cessation? Tobacco Control 14:422-424. Abstract.
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Gartner CE, Hall WD, Vos T, Bertram MY, Wallace AL & Lim SS. 2007. Assessment of Swedish snus for tobacco harm reduction: an epidemiological modelling study.
The Gateway
Nov 14, 2005 "Where there's smoke there's questionable funding" - Iris Tse - Opinion
Nov 17, 2005 "Researcher defends grant to study smokeless tobacco" - Chloe Fedio - Article
Nov 21, 2005 "Tse's arguments go up in smoke" - Brad Rodu - Letter
Nov 21, 2005 "Harm reduction, not anti-smoking, should be our message" - Carl V. Phillips - Letter
"Grant is a boon to university, city" - W. Andrew Harrell - Edmonton Journal, Nov 9, 2005. Letter
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Harm reduction as controversy."Harm reduction, not anti-smoking, should be our message" - Carl V. Phillips - The Gateway, Nov 21, 2005. Letter
Harm reduction, public health and human rights: smokers have a right to be informed of significant harm reduction options. Kozlowski LT. 2002. Nicotine and Tobacco Research S55-S60.
Harrell W. Andrew "Grant is a boon to university, city" Edmonton Journal, Nov 9, 2005. Letter
Health effects associated with smokeless tobacco: a systematic review. Critchley JA & Unal B. 2003. Thorax 58:435-443. Abstract.
Heavner K, Heffernan C, Phillips CV & Rodu B. Methodologic and Ethical Failures in Epidemiologic Research, as Illustrated by Research Relating to Tobacco Harm Reduction (THR). 2008 American Journal of Epidemiology 167(Suppl):S115.
Highly-reduced-risk nicotine products.
Historical perspective: the social determinants of disease - some blossoms. Marmot M. 2005. Epidemiological Perspectives & Innovations 2:4.
How to rank risks. Cohen BL. 2002. American Council on Science and Health.
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The impact of smoking on disease and the benefits of smoking reduction. 2000. Surgeon General.
Ingdahl, Waldemar - No Illusions
IHRA's 50 Best Papers on Tobacco Harm Reduction.
Is Swedish snus associated with smoking initiation or smoking cessation? Furberg H, Bulik CM, Lerman C, Lichtenstein P, Pedersen NL,& Sullivan PF. 2005. Tobacco Control 14:422-424. Abstract.
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Jan 2006 Articles & Letters from Edmonton PublicationsK
Kozlowski LT.
- 2002. Harm reduction, public health and human rights: smokers have a right to be informed of significant harm reduction options. Nicotine and Tobacco Research S55-S60.
- 2003. (& O'Connor RJ) Apply federal research rules on deception to misleading health information: an example on smokeless tobacco and cigarettes. Public Health Reports 118:187-192.
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Law Ron No date. Analysis of relative risks and levels of risk in Canada.
Leier Brendan "Ethics and university research" - Edmonton Journal, Nov 15, 2005. Letter
Lewin F, Norell SE, Johansson HJ, Gustavsson P, Wennerberg J, Bjorklund A & Rutqvist LE. 2000. Smoking tobacco, oral snuff, and alcohol in the etiology of squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck. Cancer 82(7):1367-1375. Abstract.
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Maddening Media Misinformation on Biotech and Industrial Agriculture. DeGregori TR. 2007. American Council on Science and Health.
Marmot M. 2005. Historical perspective: the social determinants of disease - some blossoms. Epidemiological Perspectives & Innovations 2:4.
Meister Kathleen (Ed) 2003. Cigarettes:what the warning label doesn't tell you. American Council on Science and Health.
Methodologic and Ethical Failures in Epidemiologic Research, as Illustrated by Research Relating to Tobacco Harm Reduction (THR). Heavner K, Heffernan C, Phillips CV & Rodu B. 2008. American Journal of Epidemiology 167(Suppl):S115.
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Nadelmann Ethan 2005. Reducing the harms of drug prohibition in the Americas.
Nasal snuff: historical review and health related aspects. Sapundzhiev N & Werner JA. 2003. Journal of Larynoglogy & Otology 117: 686-691. Abstract.
National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion. 2006. Cigarette smoking-related mortality.
A new health threat: federally-funded health policy based on junk science. 2004. Frydenlund JE.
Nicotine replacement therapy (NRT)
No Illusions by Waldemar Ingdahl
Non-Western and older smokeless tobacco products.
Non-Western moist snuff products as cigarette substitutes.
Nov 2005 Articles & Letters from Edmonton Publications
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Oral cancer in a tobacco-chewing US population - no apparent increased incidence or mortality. Bouquot JE & Meckstroth RL. 1998. Oral Surgery Oral Medicine Oral Pathology Oral Radiology and Endodontology 86: 697-706. Abstract.
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Paracelsus to parascience: the environmental cancer distraction. Ames B. & Gold LS. 2000. Mutation Research 447: 3-13.
Parachute use to prevent death and major trauma related to gravitational challenge: systematic review of randomized controlled trials. Smith GCS & Pell JP. 2003. BMJ 327: 1459-1461.
Peele StantonAddictive Personality. Interview in the Guardian.
Assumptions about drugs and the marketing of drug policies. 1995. In: W.K. Bickel & R.J. DeGrandpre, Drug Policy and Human Nature, New York: Plenum pp. 199-220.
Pharmaceutical nicotine products
Pharmaceutical nicotine products as good cigarette substitutes.
Pharmaceutical nicotine products compared to smokeless tobacco.
Pharmacology of nicotine: addiction and therapeutics. Benowitz N. 1996. Annual Reviews in Pharmocology and Toxicology 1996, 36:597-613. Abstract.
Phillips Carl V.Poster: Calculating the comparative mortality risk from smokeless tobacco versus smoking.
(& Guenzel B & Bergen P.) Deconstructing anti-harm-reduction metaphors; mortality risk from falls and other traumatic injuries compared to smokeless tobacco use. 2006. Harm Reduction Journal 3:15.
"Harm reduction, not anti-smoking, should be our message" - The Gateway, November 21, 2005. Letter
Saving European lives with smokeless tobacco: a clear choice, a difficult choice. Presentation to the European Union in Strasbourg - June 2008.
Smokeless tobacco and public health: Professional ethics, popular communication and harm reduction. Presentation.
"Smokeless tobacco reduces risk of cancer" Edmonton Journal, Nov 9, 2005. Letter
Presentation: Systematic review of epidemiology about smokeless tobacco and life-threatening diseases
Overview: Tobacco. 2007. Encyclopedia of Epidemilogy.
World Tonight CHQR, May 31, 2006. Radio interview
(& Wang C & Guenzel B.) You might as well smoke: the misleading and harmful public message about smokeless tobacco. 2005. BMC Public Health 5:31.
Policy makers ignoring science, science ignoring policy: the medical ethical challenges of heroin treatment. Small DR & Drucker E. 2006. Harm Reduction Journal 3:16.
Pratt Sheila "Accepting tobacco cash clouds U of A's ethics policy, credibility" Edmonton Journal, Nov 20, 2005. And response
Presentations and Working PapersPrevention of Oral Cancer. OncoLink. 2006. NCI/PDQ Health Professionals:
Protecting smokers, saving lives. 2002. Royal College of Physicians.
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Quitting smoking or switching to smokeless tobacco.
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Ramstrom LM & Foulds J. 2006. Role of snus in initiation and cessation of tobacco smoking in Sweden. Tobacco Control 15: 210 - 214.
Reduced-risk cigarettes, hookahs, or other ways of smoking as cigarette substitutes.
Reducing the harms of drug prohibition in the Americas by Ethan Nadelmann. 2005.
Reducing the risk from smoking."Researcher defends grant to study smokeless tobacco" - Chloe Fedio - The Gateway, Nov 17, 2005. Article
Responses to Popular Misinformation
Risks of smokeless tobacco compared to smoking.
Rodu Brad
- (& Stegmayr B, Nasic S, Cole P & Asplund K.) 2003. Evolving patterns of tobacco use in northern Sweden. Journal of Internal Medicine 253: 660-665.
"Smokeless tobacco is less risky"- Edmonton Journal, Nov 13, 2005. Letter
(& Godshall WT.) 2006.Tobacco harm reduction: an alternative cessation strategy for inveterate smokers. Harm Reduction Journal 3:37.
- (& Phillips CV.) 2008. Switching to smokeless tobacco as a smoking cessation method: evidence from the 2000 National Health Interview Survey. Harm Reduction Journal 5:18.
"Tse's arguments go up in smoke" - The Gateway, Nov 21, 2005. Letter
Role of snus in initiation and cessation of tobacco smoking in Sweden. Ramstrom LM & Foulds J. 2006. Tobacco Control 15: 210 - 214.
Royal College of Physicians. 2002. Protecting smokers, saving lives.
Royal College of Physicians. European Union policy on smokeless tobacco.
Ruttan Susan"Tobacco company funds U of A prof: Researcher endorses chewing tobacco" Edmonton Journal, Nov 8, 2005. And response
"U of A tobacco research comes under fire from within: $1.5-million grant taints school's reputation, health ethicist says" Edmonton Journal, Nov 9, 2005. And response
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Sapundzhiev N & Werner JA. 2003. Nasal snuff: historical review and health related aspects. Journal of Larynoglogy & Otology 117: 686-691. Abstract.
Saving European lives with smokeless tobacco: a clear choice, a difficult choice. Presentation by Carl Phillips to the European Union in Strasbourg - June 2008.
Seven year follow-up of smoking cessation with smokeless tobacco. 2005. Tilashalski K, Rodu B, & Cole P. Journal of Psychoactive Drugs 2005, 37: 105-108. Abstract.
Siegel M. 2009. The Four Commandments of the Anti-Smoking Movement: A Tribute to the Memory and Legacy of Gian Turci. Rest of the Story (March 11).
Small DR & Drucker E. 2006. Policy makers ignoring science, science ignoring policy: the medical ethical challenges of heroin treatment. Harm Reduction Journal 3:16.
Smith GCS & Pell JP. 2003. Parachute use to prevent death and major trauma related to gravitational challenge: systematic review of randomized controlled trials. BMJ 327: 1459-1461.
Smokeless Tobacco and Public Health: Professional Ethics, Popular Communication and Harm Reduction by Carl V. Phillips
Smokeless tobacco and quitting nicotine entirely.
Smokeless Tobacco and Your Health
Smokeless tobacco as a cause of cancer.
Smokeless tobacco as a cause of heart disease or stroke.
Smokeless tobacco as a cause of oral cancer (cancer of the mouth).
Smokeless tobacco as a source of nicotine."Smokeless tobacco is less risky"- Brad Rodu - Edmonton Journal, Nov 13, 2005. Letter
"Smokeless tobacco reduces risk of cancer" - Carl V. Phillips - Edmonton Journal, Nov 9, 2005. Letter
Smoking tobacco, oral snuff, and alcohol in the etiology of squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck. Lewin F, Norell SE, Johansson HJ, Gustavsson P, Wennerberg J, Bjorklund A & Rutqvist LE. 2000. Cancer 82(7):1367-1375. Abstract.
Snuff dipping and oral cancer among women in the southern United States. Winn DM, Blot WJ, Shy CM, Pickle LW, Toledo A & Fraumeni JF. 1981. N Engl J Med. Mar 26;304(13):745-9. Abstract.
Surgeon General 2000. The impact of smoking on disease and the benefits of smoking reduction.
Swedish National Board of Health. 2005. Folkhalsorapport 2005-04-28. (This report describes the tobacco use patterns and health in Sweden).
Switching to smokeless tobacco as a smoking cessation method: evidence from the 2000 National Health Interview Survey. Rodu B. & Phillips CV. 2008. Harm Reduction Journal 5:18.
Switching to smokeless tobacco or quitting entirely.
Switching to smokeless tobacco: the evidence.
Systematic review of epidemiology about smokeless tobacco and life-threatening diseases by Carl V. Phillips
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"Terrible optics on tobacco study" Edmonton Journal, Nov 9, 2005. And response
Tilashalski K, Rodu B, & Cole P. 2005. Seven year follow-up of smoking cessation with smokeless tobacco. Journal of Psychoactive Drugs 2005, 37: 105-108. Abstract.
Tobacco. (Overview) Phillips CV. 2007. Encyclopedia of Epidemiology.
"Tobacco company funds U of A prof: Researcher endorses chewing tobacco" - Susan Ruttan - Edmonton Journal, Nov 8, 2005. And response
Tobacco harm reduction: an alternative cessation strategy for inveterate smokers. Rodu B & Godshall WT. 2006. Harm Reduction Journal 3:37.
Tobacco industry funding research.
Tse Iris "Where there's smoke there's questionable funding" - The Gateway, Nov 14, 2005. Opinion
"Tse's arguments go up in smoke" - Brad Rodu - The Gateway, Nov 21, 2005. Letter
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"U of A tobacco research comes under fire from within: $1.5-million grant taints school's reputation, health ethicist says" - Susan Ruttan - Edmonton Journal, Nov 9, 2005. And response
Uncovering the effects of smoking: historical perspective. Doll R. 1998. Statistical Methods in Medical Research 7: 87-117.
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Wald NJ & Hackshaw AK. 1996. Cigarette smoking: an epidemiological overview. British Medical Bulletin 52 (1):3-11. Abstract.
Waterbor, JW, Adams RM, Robinson JM, Crabtree FG, Accort NA, Gilliland J. 2004. Disparities between public health educational materials and the scientific evidence that smokeless tobacco use causes cancer. Journal of Cancer Education 19(1):17-28. Abstract.
"Where there's smoke there's questionable funding" - Iris Tse - The Gateway, Nov 14, 2005. Opinion
Why do so many people say "smokeless tobacco is not a safe alternative to cigarettes"?
Winn DM, Blot WJ, Shy CM, Pickle LW, Toledo A & Fraumeni JF. 1981. Snuff dipping and oral cancer among women in the southern United States. N Engl J Med. Mar 26;304(13):745-9. Abstract.
World Tonight CHQR, May 31, 2006. Radio interview
Worth the risk - putting activities in perspective. 1999. Food Insight.
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You might as well smoke: the misleading and harmful public message about smokeless tobacco. Phillips CV, Wang C & Guenzel B. 2005. BMC Public Health 5:31.