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

WHO report highlights tobacco use and social inequity

The complex and ravaging interrelationship between tobacco use and social determinants of health is explored in “Equity, social determinants and public health programmes,” a 300-page report released by the World Health Organization in May 2010.

An entire chapter of the report explores tobacco use as a marker of social inequity and provides an in-depth examination of how the health consequences of smoking are borne by the most disadvantaged groups in society.

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Influence of movies, television, and newspapers on tobacco use among men and women in India

Indian women and men who see movies in a cinema once a month are more likely to smoke or chew tobacco, and men who watch television are more likely to smoke, according to a cross-sectional survey of national data. Reading newspapers was associated with decreased likelihood of smoking among women.

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