UW Center for Tobacco Research and Intervention
Melissa started smoking when she was 11 years old. She would sneak Salems from her grandma’s purse and meet her friends at the park. “We would smoke and think we looked like glamour queens,” Melissa said. It wasn’t until her mid-20s when she smoked regularly. “It started socially, at parties, and then got more and …
More than 1.4 million adolescents and 4.7 million young adults in the United States report vaping, according to FDA and CDC’s National Youth Tobacco Survey. The majority never smoked. To help them quit, UW-CTRI Researcher and UW Health Pediatric and Internal Medicine Hospitalist Dr. Brian Williams has garnered a new $967,000 5-year K08 grant from …
UW-CTRI colleagues presented (or were co-authors on) 12 unique sets of findings at the upcoming Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco 2024 Annual Conference March 20-23 in Edinburgh, Scotland. Here’s a rundown of UW-CTRI involvement. Preconference Workshops 1. Drs. Adrienne Johnson, Hasmeena Kathuria, and Brian Williams, preconference workshop. Tobacco Treatments Across the Ages. This …