Gary A. Giovino

Changes in Nicotine Intake and Cigarette Use Over Time in Two Nationally Representative Cross-Sectional Samples of Smokers (2006)

O'Connor, Richard J., Giovino, Gary A., Kozlowski, Lynn T., Shiffman, Saul, Hyland, Andrew, Bernert, John T., ...

Population surveys have observed decreases in cigarette use over time among smokers. These decreases have probably been influenced by tobacco control measures implemented over the past several...

Factors Associated with Discrepancies between Self-Reports on Cigarette Smoking and Measured Serum Cotinine Levels among Persons Aged 17 Years or Older : Third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, 1988-1994 (2001)

Caraballo, Ralph S., Giovino, Gary A., Pechacek, Terry F., Mowery, Paul D.

The discrepancy between cigarette smoking status reported during an interview and measured level of serum cotinine, a nicotine biomarker, was investigated in a representative sample of the US...

Changes at the Point-of-Sale for Tobacco Following the 1999 Billboard Ban (2000)

Wakefield, Melanie A., Terry, Yvonne M., Chaloupka, Frank J., Barker, Dianne C., Slater, Sandy J., Clark, Pamela I, ...

Objective--This study aimed to assess the effect of the Master Settlement Agreement's (MSA) 24 April 1999 ban on billboard tobacco advertising on the tobacco industry's point-of-purchase marketing...

Methodological Issues in Estimating Smoking-attributable Mortality in the United States (2000)

Malarcher, Ann M., Schulman, Jane, Epstein, Leonardo A., Thun, Michael J., Mowery, Paul, Pierce, Ben, ...

The authors explored two methodological issues in the estimation of smoking-attributable mortality for the United States. First, age-specific and age-adjusted relative risk, attributable fraction,...

Annual Report to the Nation on the Status of Cancer, 1973–1996, With a Special Section on Lung Cancer and Tobacco Smoking (1999)

Wingo, Phyllis A., Ries, Lynn A. G., Giovino, Gary A., Miller, Daniel S., Rosenberg, Harry M., Shopland, Donald R., ...

Background: The American Cancer Society, the National Cancer Institute (NCI), and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), including the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS),...

Annual Report to the Nation on the Status of Cancer, 1973-1996, With a Special Section on Lung Cancer and Tobacco Smoking (1999)

Wingo, Phyllis A., Ries, Lynn A. G., Giovino, Gary A., Miller, Daniel S., Rosenberg, Harry M., Shopland, Donald R., ...

BACKGROUND: The American Cancer Society, the National Cancer Institute (NCI), and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), including the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS),...

Lung cancer deaths in the United States from 1979 to 1992: an analysis using multiple-cause mortality data (1998)

Mannino, David M, Ford, Earl, Giovino, Gary A, Thun, Michael

Background We sought to describe trends in the presence of lung cancer at the time of death in the United States from 1979 to 1992. Methods We analysed death certificate reports in the Multiple-Cause...

Quitting Smoking in the United States in 1986 (1990)

Hatziandreu, Evridiki J., Pierce, John P., Lefkopoulou, Myrto, Fiore, Michael C., Mills, Sherry L., Novotny, Thomas E., ...

In an analysis of recent behavior with regard to quitting smoking, detailed histories were obtained on a representative sample of 5,623 Americans who had smoked in the year preceding the 1986 Adult...

State Tobacco Control Spending and Youth Smoking

Tauras, John A., Chaloupka, Frank J., Farrelly, Matthew C., Giovino, Gary A., Wakefield, Melanie, Johnston, Lloyd D., ...

Objective. We examined the relationship between state-level tobacco control expenditures and youth smoking prevalence and cigarette consumption.

Access to Low-Taxed Cigarettes Deters Smoking Cessation Attempts

Hyland, Andrew, Higbee, Cheryl, Li, Qiang, Bauer, Joseph E., Giovino, Gary A., Alford, Terry, ...

We examined whether smokers who purchased low-taxed cigarettes from American Indian reservations had lower quit attempt and cessation rates than did smokers who purchased cigarettes from full-price...