Tobacco Control and Lung Cancer

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 […]

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 […]

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! 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 […]

Deaf and Hard of Hearing (Deaf/HH) youth are a vulnerable minority population at risk for tobacco use, so TRDRP funded our prior community-academic partnered research that resulted in “Hands Off Tobacco! An Anti-Tobacco Program for Deaf Youth.” Widely disseminated and still in use today, to our knowledge it is the only comprehensive school-based tobacco prevention […]

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 […]