The lecture series aim to assure that FAMRI-funded investigators have an awareness of the special nature of research on secondhand smoke and of the application of their research findings to reducing the burden of morbidity and mortality associated with secondhand smoke exposure. For that purpose, the Center will be holding regular seminar series that will address the broader policy context of secondhand smoke. The seminar series will also be used for presentations by FAMRI researchers with special consideration given in the seminars not only to the research findings but also to their broader implications. We hope that the seminar series will increase synergy among the investigators and foster greater commitment to control of secondhand smoke and its health consequences.

September 29, Mitch Zeller, Tobacco Product Regulation and Harm Reduction: Undoing the Damage from an Unregulated Marketplace ( PPT Slides) ( PDF Flyer)
June 25, David Abrams, Can Tobacco Cessation Interventions Make a Public Health Impact? ( PPT Slides) ( PDF Flyer)
April 22, Dilyara Barzani, Tobacco Control in the Middle East: Challenges and Opportunities ( PPT Slides) ( PDF Flyer)
January 27, Shyam Biswal, Nrf2 pathway as a target for therapy to intervene in COPD and lung inflammatory diseases ( PDF Flyer)

July 21, Jonathan Samet, Douglas Bettcher, Patricia Lambert, and Krzysztof Przewozniak, Where will Tobacco Control be in Five Years? View Webcast ( PDF Flyer)
July 29, Sharon Eubanks, Expert Testimony and Proof in Tobacco Litigation ( PDF Flyer)
October 8, Stephen Hecht, A Biomarker for Non-smokers Exposure to a Tobacco-Specific Lung Carcinogen  ( PDF Flyer)

January 29, Mary Bassett, Tobacco Control: The New York City Experience ( PPT Slides) (Low-band   High-band)
March 21, Carlo DiClemente, Addiction and Change: Understanding Pathways into and out of Nicotine  ( PPT Slides)
April 25, Jonathan Klein, Tobacco Prevention and Cessation for Children and Adolescents  ( PPT Slides) ( PDF Flyer)
May 23, Ron Davis, The Global March of the Marlboro man and the Growing Pandemic of Tobacco-Related Disease
September 11, Harold Varmus, Searching for New therapeutic Targets in Mutant EGFR-Induced Lung Cancers

February 20, Gerard Dubois, Smoke-free Policy in Europe ( PDF Flyer) ( PPT Slides)
March 30, Norbert Hirschhorn, The Evolution of Philip Morris's Position on Addiction to Nicotine ( PDF Flyer) ( PPT Slides)
April 17,Secondhand Smoke and Breast Cancer ( PDF Flyer)

• Cynthia Zahnow
  Smoking, Insulin Expression and Transactivation of ErbB2/3 Receptors in Mammary Epithelial Cells ( PPT Slides)
• Hetty Carraway
  Promoter Hypermethylation As a Molecular Marker for Breast Cancer ( PPT Slides)
• Venu Raman
  Effect of secondhand tobacco smoke on breast cancer biogenesis

May 31, Tom Novotny, The Bioethical Basis for Tobacco Control
September 18, Jonathan Samet, Tobacco Wars: The Saga Continues
October 20, Landon King, Andrew Lane, Ana Navas-Acien, Secondhand Smoke and Upper Airway Disease

December 9, Joaquin Barnoya,Secondhand Smoke and Cardiovascular Disease ( PPT Slides)