4 Country Project Mary McNally, M.Sc.. Department of Psychology University of Waterloo ITC-TTURC Project Annual Meeting Portland, Oregon—March 1, 2008
2 4 Country ResearchTeam Canada Geoffrey T. Fong Mary E. Thompson David Hammond Christian Boudreau Mark P. Zanna K. Stephen Brown Sharon Campbell Paul W. McDonald United States K. Michael Cummings Andrew Hyland Richard J. O’Connor Maansi Travers Gary A. Giovino Frank J. Chaloupka Fritz L. Laux Hana Ross Mohammad Siahpush Australia Ron Borland Melanie Wakefield Hua Yong David Young United Kingdom Gerard Hastings Ann McNeill Louise Hassan Anne Marie Mackintosh Fiona Harris
4 Country: Population
4 Country : Prevalence Source: Country National Surveys – DAILY SMOKERS, except Australia - CURRENT Age: Australia: 18+, Canada: 15+, UK: 16+, US 18+
4 Country: Tobacco Industry % agricultural land devoted to tobacco farming cigarette exports – millions cigarette imports - millions workers in tobacco manufacturing
4 Country: FCTC Status
4 Country: Price and Taxation
Wave 6 Summary
Wave 6 Data DMC will need 1 month to clean, compute derived variables, and compute sampling weights. Therefore Wave 6 data should be posted on IGLOO (in SPSS, SAS, Stata) by the end of April 2008.
Waves 1- 6 Attrition
Wave 6 Funding
Funding Waves Challenges: Funding Need approximately $1 million per wave Wave 7 – last year of TTURC funds (to DMC) = $226,750 Wave 8 – CIHR funds = $521,536 R01 Submission – requesting 30% of field work costs for Waves 7 – 12 CRUK and NHMRC
Research Objectives Waves Long-term evaluation of policies Canada revision of warnings (2010?) FDA regulation in the U.S. Other initiatives in the U.S.?? Important comparisons with LMICs: – Malaysia – Thailand – China – Bangladesh (start Fall 2008?) – Sudan (start Fall 2008?)
Waves 1- 6 Attrition