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Using the Internet to Help Young Smokers Quit

Robin Mermelstein is leading a $2.9 million National Cancer Institute project to increase demand for evidence-based, Internet-based smoking cessation treatment among young adults.
UIC Study to Examine New WIC Changes in Northern Illinois

Healthier food options will soon be added to the Supplemental Program for Women, Infants, and Children -- also known as WIC -- and IHRP-affiliated researchers will conduct a study to examine the impact of these changes in northern Illinois.
Cigarette Smoking Prevalence and Policies in 50 States: An Era of Change

Researchers in IHRP's Health Policy Center have published a report chronicling achievements and remaining challenges in preventing U.S. tobacco use.

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Tracy Orleans “For the past decade, the ImpacTeen project, directed by Dr. Frank Chaloupka, has provided extraordinary scientific leadership for the nation's policy-based efforts to curb youth tobacco, alcohol and illicit drug use, and reverse our childhood obesity epidemic.”

— Tracy Orleans, PhD, Distinguished Fellow and Senior Scientist, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

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