Tobacco & the Elderly
Notes This site
includes copies of all the issues of TCSG's newsletter, Tobacco & the
Elderly Notes. These newsletters contain a wealth of easy to read
articles on the topic of tobacco and older persons. These articles draw
heavily upon, and reference, peer-reviewed journal articles, but are
written for the general reader. We encourage users of this site to
download copies of the articles and reprint them, with attribution, in
other newsletters and publications; or, you may utilize the articles to
write your own for your publications. Our desire is for this information
to be used to protect this and future generations of older and younger
people from the diseases and death caused by tobacco use and secondhand
smoke.
The Center for Social
Gerontology
2307
Shelby Avenue, Ann Arbor, MI 48103 tel: 734 665-1126 fax: 734
665-2071
tcsg@tcsg.org
Spring/Summer
1998
- Posters Highlight Tobacco's Impact on Older Americans
- Evidence Mounts of Tobacco's Wide-Ranging Dangers
- Oral & Throat Cancer Attack Middle-Aged & Older Persons; Smoking is Primary Risk Factor
- Heavy Smokers Vastly Underestimate Risk of Premature Death
- Tobacco-Related Diseases Will Cost Medicare $800 Billion Over the Next 20 Years
- Athletes Prevalent in Tobacco Ads in 1930s to 1970s When Today's Elder Started Smoking
Fall/Winter 1997
- Smoke-Free Policies Encourage Elders Participation in Programs
- Smoking Cessation & Tobacco Education Programs
- British Playwright Tells Why He Stopped Smoking a Pipe
- Three Million Smoke Pipes: Almost Half are Older Persons
- Smoking & Wrinkled Skin Go Together
- 700+ Elder Victims of Tobacco-Related Fires
- Fire-Resistant Cigarettes
- Smoking-Related Fire Tragedies
- Cig Fires Threat to Nursing Home Residents
- Tobacco Industry Donations to Aging Programs
Tobacco & the Elderly Project Announcement
Why are 10 Million Older Americans Smokers?
- Health Issues
- Public Policy Issues
- Smokefree Public Policies
- Michigan AG Sues Tobacco
- Smokefree Restaurant List
- Health Fair Boycott Gets Smokefree Shopping Mall
- 66 Year Old Stuns Tobacco Jury Awards Victim $750,000
- 94% of Smoking Disease Victims Ages 50+
- Liggett Admits Tobacco Lies, But...All Tobacco Firms Try to Avoid Responsibility
- The Human Toll of Smoking
- Cigar & Pipe Tobacco Industries Target Older Persons
- Smoking Cessation Works
Last updated June 1999