About TReND

The Tobacco Research Network on Disparities (TReND) was created in recognition of the need to progress scientific evidence toward reducing tobacco-related health disparities. 

Despite impressive scientific progress in documenting tobacco-related health disparities by income, education, race/ethnicity, and other social determinants, many questions remain about the underlying causes of tobacco use, differential clustering within and across population groups, and the mediating mechanisms and processes that account for the linkages that exist between the causes of tobacco-related disease and the social determinants that produce disparities in disease outcomes. These gaps in knowledge led the National Cancer Institute and the American Legacy Foundation to create TReND, which is a network that includes researchers from a wide range of academic disciplines.Read More

Outcomes of the 14th World Conference on Tobacco or Health

Tobacco use – in the form of cigarettes, water pipes, smokeless tobacco, and other types – is on the rise in the developing world, even as smoking rates in the United States stagnate. The impact of increased tobacco use goes far beyond negative health outcomes. Tobacco cultivation and use strongly affects the economy and environment as well, and the repercussions of heavy tobacco use in the developing world are devastating.

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Spotlight on Researchers

“The tobacco control community continues to research, debate and move forward on issues in tobacco control.  For example, a major issue that is thought to be ripe for implementation is plain packaging of tobacco products, although it has not happened so far in any country.”

Prakash Gupta, Ph.D.
Director of Research, Healis - Sekhsaria Institute of Public Health
Editorial Board, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research