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Tobacco & Nicotine: Public Health, Science, Policy, and Law
In this course learners will be educated on the history of smoking and other tobacco and nicotine use and its individual and public health impact. Instructor Cliff Douglas of the University of Michigan School of Public Health will lead learners through the history, policy, health implications and more related to tobacco use, as well as current and past mitigation tactics and touching on tobacco use prevalence trends in adults, youth and key subpopulations. Learners will explore 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 accountability and industry behavior change through legal action; the rapidly evolving tobacco and nicotine product marketplace; the unique and ever-changing regulatory and other policy challenges that have emerged; and the implications of this rapid change for public health today and in the future.
Benefit from a variety of voices on the topic in this in-depth course which features 18 experts in a range of tobacco control areas and issues. Through a series of lectures, interviews, readings, and assessments, the course tells the story of smoking and tobacco and nicotine product use, focusing on the specific - but not unique - story of the U.S., while also presenting important information and insights from elsewhere in the world.
Type of Course: MOOC
Platform: Coursera
Duration: 4 weeks