Tobacco Control and Lung Cancer

Advancing Understanding of Tobacco, Vaping and Cannabis Among Indigenous Mexican Agricultural Workers

UCLA and MICOP (Mixteco Indigena Community Organizing Project) are conducting research to address tobacco, vaping and cannabis use among the Indigenous Mexican agricultural worker community. This study aims to: identify the context and scope of product use; examine knowledge of health consequences and attitudes toward use; understand product access and industry marketing practices; determine how […]

Identifying Promising Strategies to Improve Lung Cancer Screening in Diverse Los Angeles Communities

This pilot study is working to gather data on perceptions about lung cancer screening in low income and racial/ethnic minority communities in Los Angeles among individuals eligible for screening and the health care providers and community organizations that serve these groups. We are working primarily with communities at elevated risk for poor lung cancer outcomes […]

Adapting Project Towards No Nicotine for Virtual Delivery in Ethnically-Diverse Afterschool Settings

Project Towards No Nicotine is a tobacco and vaping use prevention program adapted from Project Towards No Tobacco (an evidence-based tobacco use prevention curriculum delivered for classroom settings). Working in partnership with Breathe SoCal, the Boys and Girls Clubs of Greater Los Angeles, and USC, we will develop a version of Project TNN for virtual […]

Hands Off Tobacco and E-Cigarettes!: Tobacco & E-Cigarette Use Prevention for Deaf Youth

Hands Off Tobacco and E-Cigarettes! is a tobacco and e-cigarette use prevention program designed for Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing youth updated this past year to include information about e-cigarettes, hookah, and cigarillos and innovative activities to engage Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing youth, including the use of social media. We implement our classroom-based program with middle school students […]

Development and Evaluation of an Afterschool Tobacco Use Prevention Program

Tobacco use by youth in California disproportionately affects low-income, racial and ethnic minority children and adolescents. To address this issue we utilized the afterschool setting to deliver and assess a tobacco use prevention program by adapting Project TNT, a successful tobacco use prevention program used in middle school classroom environments, for the afterschool setting. Through […]