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JNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute 1999 91(5):411; doi:10.1093/jnci/91.5.411
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Journal of the National Cancer Institute, Vol. 91, No. 5, 411, March 3, 1999
© 1999 Oxford University Press

NEWS

Tying Together Tobacco Use Research

Judith Randal

Like many kinds of research, tobacco use research has been fragmented. Thus, some people in the field have focused on animal and test-tube studies to get at the genetics and molecular biology of nicotine addiction, while others have brought smokers into the laboratory to measure their craving levels. Still other researchers have imaged the brain of smokers as they smoked, or taken entirely different tacks — for example, measuring the impact of tighter regulation of cigarette sales at convenience stores on teen smoking.

The trouble, according to Jaylan Turkkan, Ph.D., behavioral sciences branch chief at the National Institute of Drug Abuse is that "very rarely" do these people talk to each other or read the same literature, let alone collaborate. Thus, when she began talking to the National Cancer Institute's Barbara Rimer, Dr.P.H. — Rimer heads NCI's Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences — the two realized they had this concern in common and so was born what is being called the Transdisciplinary Tobacco Research Centers Program (see News, Jan. 6, 1999, p. 17).



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  		Dr. Jaylan Turkkan

 
The dual motivation behind the program: the need to develop new and better ways to get people not to smoke in order to reduce the incidence and prevalence of tobacco-related disability and illness; and to provide opportunities for young investigators in this field to learn how best to do cross-cutting research.


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