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Empowering and Inspiring Student Tobacco Researchers

A seed planted by TRDRP funding has blossomed into a statewide program that trains youth through a collaboration ...

Program Helps Students Find Career Path in Tobacco Research

Karissa Tran is a San Marcos native who entered Cal State San Marcos intending to study clinical psychology. Nicolas ...

The Research to Policy Pipeline: Establishing California’s Tobacco Policy Research Centers (TPRC)

In line with a major Tobacco-Related Disease Research Program (TRDRP) goal to support research that informs public ...

Californians in some areas less likely to benefit from policies curbing tobacco use

Areas with weak local regulations leave some communities more vulnerable to harm from tobacco use Key ...

TRDRP receives funding for research on nicotine cessation strategies for youth and young adults

As part of a settlement reached by the California Attorney General's office with JUUL Labs, Inc., California’s ...

Bridging the Gap: Community Practice-Based Research Initiative

California has one of the most demographically, ethnically, and culturally diverse populations in the United ...

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Smoke- and Vape-Free Scholars Initiative (SVFSI)

TRDRP-funded initiative is training the next generation of tobacco prevention and control researchers Andy Jose ...

New California Tobacco Cessation Policy Research Center to be housed at cancer center

UC Davis Comprehensive Cancer Center has launched the state’s first-ever Tobacco Cessation Policy ...

E-Cigarettes and Sudden Death

TRDRP-funded study shows e-cigarettes can cause abnormal ventricular repolarization, a predictor of sudden ...

Hookah, Shisha and Waterpipe Tobacco: Consequences for Health and Future Research Directions

Although California has made great strides in curbing the sale of flavored tobacco products, one exception has been ...

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Project SUN (Stop the Use of Nicotine)

When Native Community Consultant Lou Moerner visited her colleague Claradina Soto, an American Indian behavioral ...

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Cannabis and E-cigarettes Can Harm the Heart Like Combustible Cigarettes

E-cigarettes and marijuana have similar harmful effects on the heart as those of tobacco cigarettes –opening ...

Thirdhand Smoke Exposures Surpass Health Risk Guideline Levels

Some smells seem to seep into everything they touch. Tobacco smoke is one of the worst offenders. Thirdhand smoke ...

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Secret behind ‘nic-sickness’ could help break tobacco addiction

If you remember your first hit on a cigarette, you know how sickening nicotine can be. Yet, for many people, the ...

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Youth and Flavored Tobacco Products

Youth “vaping” of e-cigarettes has been called a national epidemic by the U.S. Surgeon General , and the ...

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Culturally-Tailored Cessation Research: Results from recent TRDRP-funded studies

One of the main goals of the Tobacco-Related Disease Research Program (TRDRP) is to support communities most ...

BETting on COVID-19: Study Probes Role of BET Proteins in Coronavirus Infection

A while ago, some researchers had suggested that blocking a set of proteins, known as bromodomain and extraterminal ...

Nicotine and Cannabis Policy Research Policy Briefs

In a landmark ruling announced in June 2022, the FDA issued a marketing denial order of the JUUL device and 4 types ...

E-cigarettes Alter Inflammatory State of Brain, Heart, Lungs and Colon

Researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine report that daily use of pod-based ...

Secondhand cannabis smoke (SHCS) study highlights risks of indoor cannabis use

Although 27% of young adults believe secondhand cannabis smoke (SHCS) exposure is safe, cannabis smoke has several ...

Many Children Still Exposed to Tobacco Smoke Pollution Even in ‘Smoke-Free’ Homes

The person who smoked a pack a day may have moved out years ago, but the toxic substances left behind stuck ...

Latino smokers on Medi-Cal still not getting help needed to quit

A team of researchers with the UC Davis Comprehensive Cancer Center found that even with expanded access to ...

Breakthrough Infection Study Compares Decline in Vaccine Effectiveness and Consequences for Mortality

Study in Science of more than 780,000 Veterans is the first to compare waning protection rates across all three ...

New online tool helps keep college campuses smoke and tobacco free

Recent study confirms real-time Tobacco Tracker can shape behavior and create support for a healthier campus. A ...

Vaping — not prior smoking — is associated with changes in gene regulation linked to disease

The latest vaping study from Keck School of Medicine of USC shows that, like smoking, use of e-cigarettes is linked ...

Cannabis Consumption in Dispensaries: Public Health Implications of an Emerging Practice

Within the past few years, California and other states have legalized the smoking, vaping, and dabbing of cannabis ...

Young UC scientists to learn from Nobel laureates

The University of California announced its second class of UC President’s Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings ...

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Vaping just once raises oxidative stress levels in nonsmokers, increasing disease risk

The findings, published in JAMA Pediatrics, show that a single 30-minute vaping session can ...

Smokers Light Up More Cigarettes Following California COVID-19 Lockdown Order, Study Finds

The fallout from the coronavirus pandemic has been felt around the world. COVID-19's grip ...

Flipping a Molecular Switch for Heart Fibrosis

A healthy heart is a pliable, ever-moving organ. But under stress—from injury, cardiovascular disease, or ...

Thirdhand smoke exposure linked to fabric type, heat, and humidity

UC Riverside-led team developed simple, rapid method to assess contaminants in household fabrics. A study led ...

Postdoc wins Society of Toxicology conference award

Careen Khachatoorian, a postdoctoral researcher working with Prue Talbot, a professor of cell biology at UCR, will ...

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Molecular analysis identifies key differences in lungs of cystic fibrosis patients

Researchers’ catalog of airway cell types could reveal targets for future genetic therapies. A team of ...

E-Cigarettes Trigger Inflammation in the Gut

Chemical used for vaping break down zipper-like junctions between cells in the gut, leading to chronic inflammation ...

Sabrina Smiley wants to talk to menthol smokers — and retailers

A USC researcher and her team are focusing on the lived experiences of Black menthol cigarette smokers by asking ...

Study reveals how smoking worsens COVID-19 infection in the airways

UCLA researchers using a model of airway tissue created from human stem cells have pinpointed ...

Caltech Researcher Unveils Sensor that Rapidly Detects COVID-19 Infection Status, Severity, and Immunity

One feature of the COVID-19 virus that makes it so difficult to contain is that it ...

Early study results point to heating element in vaping and e-cig devices as cause for serious lung injuries

Nicotine, THC or Vitamin E oil may not be the primary factor in e-cig or vaping product use-associated lung ...

Tobacco control in city and county laws regulating legal marijuana

California's Local Marijuana Laws Fail to Heed Decades of Lessons from Tobacco Controls Allowing high potency ...

California Smokers’ Helpline offers free nicotine patches

Callers to the California Smokers’ Helpline can now get an additional tool to help them quit using tobacco: ...

COVID-19 More Likely to Impact Smokers and People Exposed to Secondhand Smoke, Report Finds

Smokers and former smokers are not only more susceptible to COVID-19, they are far more likely to see their ...

Some Young Americans Aware of New Heated Tobacco Products; Use Is Highest Among Those Who Use Other Tobacco Products or Marijuana

Many younger Americans are aware of new products that heat tobacco to produce a breathable aerosol, and individuals ...

Vapers Show Cancer-Associated Biological Changes Similar to Smokers

Biologically important changes in DNA seen in smokers are also being found in people who vape, according to a new ...

Vaping lung injury symptoms have been reported online for at least seven years

UC Riverside research used internet data mining to monitor health effects reported by electronic cigarette ...

TRDRP’s E-Cigarette Portfolio: 9 Years of Funding Research into Vaping Behavior and Health Effects

Since 2011, TRDRP has funded 92 research grants that address an important societal problem from many different ...

Researcher Spotlight: Mary Rezk-Hanna

As a child growing up in Alexandria, Egypt, Mary Rezk-Hanna would stand on her family’s apartment balcony and ...

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Cigarette butts contaminate our water and create human health hazards

In a recent publication in Chemical Research in Toxicology, TRDRP grantee, Eunha Hoh’s team reported that when ...

Youth Partnership Studies Tobacco Marketing in Oakland

A new study published in Sage Open highlights the results of a unique community-based participatory research project ...

Similarities of small cell cancers to blood cancers could lead to better treatments

An interdisciplinary team of UCLA scientists has found that small cell neuroendocrine cancers from a range ...

Scientists find thirdhand smoke affects cells in humans

UC Riverside-led study is the first to find an association between thirdhand smoke and gene expression ...

TRDRP Trainees Showcased at Society for Nicotine and Tobacco Research Conference

TRDRP values effective communication of science to the public as a tool to inform non-scientists and policymakers ...

Busting Myths about Tobacco Use

The causal relationship between tobacco use and lung disease is well-known but how tobacco products affect other ...

E-cigarette users show cancer-linked genetic changes

E-cigarettes may not be risk-free: A USC study shows users develop some of the same molecular changes as ...

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Lung Cancer Deaths are 28 Percent Lower in California

State’s long-term, aggressive tobacco control programs cited as primary reason Early adoption of tobacco ...

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TRDRP-funded Researchers Show Alarming Health Effects of Hookah

A team of researchers, including TRDRP grantees Mary Rezk-Hanna and Ronald Victor, recently published that, for ...

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Special Tobacco Control Journal Supplement Highlights Dangers of Heated Tobacco Products

Claims by the tobacco industry that heated tobacco products (HTPs) are safer than conventional cigarettes are not ...

UC Merced Snags TRDRP’s First Tobacco Policy Research Center Award

On August 1, 2018, the UC Merced Nicotine and Cannabis Policy Center was funded by TRDRP. This research center ...

TRDRP and American Heart Association gather national experts to better understand the health effects of e-cigarettes

For a summary of the workshop, click here On June 13, 2018, TRDRP and the American Heart Association held a workshop ...

Inaugural Proposition 56 funding supports innovative research into the prevention, detection and potential cures of life-threatening diseases caused by tobacco use

The Tobacco Related Disease Research Program (TRDRP) has now funded two rounds of research grants drawing from ...