Topics and Expertise: tobacco

Selling a Poison by the Barrel: Liquid Nicotine for E-Cigarettes

Sun Mar 23, 2014

Study finds tobacco control efforts yield huge health care savings

Fri Feb 15, 2013
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James Lightwood, PhD

California tobacco control efforts that cost $2.4 billion over nearly two decades reduced health care costs during that same period by $134 billion, according to a new study co-authored by UCSF School of Pharmacy faculty member James Lightwood, PhD.

School to train Safeway pharmacists in smoking cessation counseling

Wed Feb 13, 2013
Faculty of the UCSF School of Pharmacy will train Safeway supermarket pharmacists to help their customers quit smoking, using a curriculum originally developed at the School.

The new partnership with Safeway Inc. marks the first time a smoking cessation intervention has been applied systematically...

UCSF pharmacy faculty advocate for legislation banning tobacco sales in pharmacies

Fri Jul 25, 2008
UCSF School of Pharmacy faculty members support a proposed City and County of San Francisco ordinance that would prohibit San Francisco pharmacies from selling tobacco products.