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New Grant Empowers Team to Address Smoking Disparities in Milwaukee
UW-CTRI is partnering with community leaders in Wisconsin on a project to reduce smoking among African Americans in Milwaukee. Wisconsin has the worst disparity of smoking between whites (12%) and Blacks (30%) of any state …
June 5, 2023Dr. Fiore Attends White House Event for the Cancer Moonshot
UW-CTRI Co-Founder and Director Dr. Michael Fiore represented the Center as a special guest at the White House event to celebrate the progress made thanks to the National Cancer Institute’s Cancer Moonshot Initiative—a project to …
June 2, 2023UW-CTRI Is Hiring
UW-CTRI is currently recruiting for a Tobacco Care Specialist at UW Health.
May 8, 2023Study Results: What Happens When a Loved One with COVID-19 is Put on a Ventilator?
Researchers have found that, as age and requirement for intubation increases in patients hospitalized with COVID-19, so too does overall mortality. The study, published in CHEST, drew from data collected by the COVID EHR Cohort …
May 1, 2023Chris Ripley Helps BREATHE 2 Participant Quit Smoking
A BREATHE 2 study participant started smoking 30 years ago due to peer pressure. “I wanted to look the coolest,” said the participant, who asked to remain anonymous. Since then, they had tried to quit …
April 28, 2023US Smoking Rate Now 11 Percent
The adult smoking rate in the United States has fallen to 11 percent, according to preliminary survey data released by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC). That’s down from 12.5 percent last year. Smoking rates …
April 28, 2023Deep in the Heart of Texas, UW-CTRI Presents at SRNT 2023
UW-CTRI colleagues presented their research findings at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco (SRNT) in San Antonio, Texas. See what they presented below. Researcher Dr. Adrienne Johnson co-chaired a pre-conference …
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