Tobacco Control Research and Programs

Amendment 35 Program Evaluation Group

APEG is the external evaluation center for public health programs in Colorado that have been funded by a voter-approved tobacco tax increase. These programs receive approximately $50 to $60 million per year in grants through the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment, with the overarching objectives of reducing tobacco use, cancer, cardiovascular disease, pulmonary disease and health disparities. APEG evaluates these programs. (PI Arnold Levinson, funding by Colorado tobacco tax)

Ohio Quits Evaluation

OQEval is a research and evaluation effort to study the development of a highly innovative system that integrates different types of assistance for smoking cessation and uses expert assessment to recommend optimal treatment for each individual smoker enacted in the State of Ohio.  (PI Arnold Levinson, funded by the State of Ohio )

Get R!EAL

Get R!EAL  (Resist, Expose Advertising Lies) is Colorado ’s Youth Movement Against the Tobacco Industry. Get R!EAL is designed for youth, by youth, to provide youth across Colorado ages 12 to 18 with the skills, information and resources they need to counter tobacco industry advertising and advocate for social changes that de-normalize tobacco use. (PI Sally Casey, funded by Colorado tobacco tax)

Bust Big Tobacco

Bust Big Tobacco, a project of Get R!EAL, is a middle school media and advocacy education program across Colorado. This program defines and provides examples of advocacy and activism, and demonstrates that youth in grades 6 to 8 can, in fact, “bust” Big Tobacco by exposing its lies. (PI Sally Casey, funded by Colorado tobacco tax)

Spit Tobacco Community–based Participatory Research Project

This project is intended to reduce disparities related to spit tobacco use by creating a statewide, web-based surveillance tool designed to capture spit tobacco use, social and cultural norms that support use, product marketing and sales practices, tobacco industry sponsorship of local events, prevention and cessation resources, and policies and practices. (PI Sally Casey, funded by The Legacy Foundation)