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Where There’s Smoke
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Business New Haven
4/1/2002
By: BNH
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NEW HAVEN - Two grants totaling $1.65 million from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) will allow the Center for Nicotine & Tobacco Use Research at Yale (CENTURY) to conduct research on tobacco-related policy issues and communicate its findings.
Lead researcher on the grant is Jody L. Sindelar, associate professor in the division of Health Policy & Administration in the Yale Medical School's Department of Epidemiology and Public Health. She says that the research will provide a basis for developing public and private policies regarding tobacco control.
Yale investigators and Sindelar, who specializes in applying economic principles to health issues, will undertake three main projects as part of the RWJF grant. One project will analyze the impact of smoking on worker productivity. Another will conduct an economic evaluation of a new smoking-cessation treatment being developed at CENTURY, and a third project will examine the role that life changes have on decisions for older individuals to quit smoking.
Tracy Falba, a co-principal investigator on the grant, emphasizes the importance of studying this group of older smokers. “As people age, the effects of smoking become more prevalent,” she explains. “Because of this and other life changes, older individuals may find new motivation to quit smoking. Importantly, even at older ages, the benefits to quitting can be immense. This research will help to get policies and treatments in place to improve the health of the elderly.”
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