Society for Medical Anthropology

A section of the American Anthropological Association

Academic Resources: Topical Resources

  • Tobacco, Alcohol, & Drugs

research tools

  • first, check the resources at the Alcohol and Drug Study Group website
  • A bibliography of selected RAND publications: smoking, alcohol, and drug abuse (pdf)
    Tobacco Control online - Archive of All Online Issues
  • Alcohol Policies Project Washington Report -- provides online information and updates about domestic and international alcohol-policy issues, including alcohol advertising and marketing, labeling, product development, taxation, and industry political and commercial initiatives.  Washington Report also provides action alerts to inform advocates of opportunities to promote and influence pro-health alcohol policies.
  • Hablemos en Confianza -- su fuente de recursos bilingüe. Aquí encontrará artículos sobre el abuso y el consumo de sustancias que perjudican. Le ofrecemos información que le ayudará a comunicarse mejor con sus hijos acerca del alcohol, tabaco, y drogas ilícitas.
  • The Tobacco Dependent Suffer More -- power point graph displaying disparities in health conditions suffered by tobacco users
  • The Tobacco Industry Documents: An Introductory Handbook and Resource Guide for Researchers (pdf) by Ross MacKenzie, Jeff Collin, and Kelley Lee.
  • You Are The Target -- Big Tobacco: Lies, Scams - Now The Truth
    by Georgina Lovell
    The book is directed at youth and aims to counter the tobacco industry's mandate to recruit young people. It provides resource material for classroom curriculums aimed at students 12 years and older. Students complete 5 hours of classroom lesson plans and become Tobacco Awareness Peer Mentors, who visit elementary school pupils to talk about tobacco "trickery". The book covers many aspects of the tobacco industry's fraud and deception that has perpetrated the public worldwide over the last 50 years.
  • Profits Over People (pdf), Pan American Health Organization (PAHO)
    This report summarises a year long investigation of over 10,000 pages of previously secret internal tobacco company documents, mainly from Philip Morris and British American Tobacco, who combined share most of the market share in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC). These documents were downloaded off a company website and BAT (British American Tobacco) documents were obtained from the Guildford Depository in the United Kingdom.

data sources

tobacco research, prevention and control:

other tobacco sites: international