Tobacco & Nicotine: Public Health, Science, Policy, and Law

This course provides a strong foundation in the history of smoking and other tobacco and nicotine use; the individual and public health impact; tobacco use prevalence trends in adults, youth and key subpopulations; and how cigarette smoking came to be, and remains to this day, the leading preventable cause of death in the U.S. and globally, despite the fact that tobacco control efforts have collectively constituted one of the most successful public health endeavors in our history. The course also explores the role of the tobacco industry in the epidemic, as well as the pursuit of accountabilit…