Background -- Chinese Tobacco-Free Campus Network

The Center for Tobacco Control Research Zhejiang University School of Medicine is a organization built in 2007, which is fully tobacco control research organization in China. A multi-disciplinary researcher group works there, including in public health, public policy, and behavioral areas. Several renowned international experts have been invited to act as senior science consultants to the Center.
Our primary academic focus is to develop culturally relevant methods and tools for tobacco control in China in social behavioral behavior perspectives.Since the center was built some important tobacco control projects have be implemented, including:
(1)Building advocacy capacity for tobacco control among the public health workforce in China supported by The International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease);
(2) Tobacco Control Courses in Smoke-free Universities with Public Health Faculties(supported by The International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease),
(3) Facilitate MOH Endorsement of Tobacco Control Curriculum Implementation through Promoting Tobacco Control Curricula in Medical Schools.(supported by The International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease),
(4) Behavioral pattern of unassisted smoking cessation: policy evidences study based on population survey, (Supported by China Natural Science Foundation),

(5)Building Tobacco Dependence Treatment Capacity in Medical Universities and Affiliated Hospitals in China, (Supported by Global Bridge) etc.

(6) Building advocacy capacity for tobacco control among medical university students (updata),,,,,,

The Center for Tobacco Control Research

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We have published more than 80 international articles such as:：
(1).Yang T*, Abdullah AS , Rockett IR ,Li M, Zhou Y, Ma J, Zheng Z, Zhang Y, Wan8g L. Assessment of Tobacco Control Advocacy Behavioral Capacity among Students at Schools of Public Health in China. Tobacco Control, 2011; 20:20-25.

(2).Yang T*, Shiffman S, Rockett IR ,Cui X, Cao R. Nicotine dependence among Chinese city dwellers: a population-based cross-sectional study. Nicotine Tob Res, 2011; 13(17):556-564.

(3).Yang T*, Xu X, Rockett IR ,Guo W, Zhou H. Effects of household, workplace, and public place smoking restrictions on smoking cessation. Health & Place, 2011;17:956-960.

(4). Yang T*, Rockett IRH, Li M, Xu X, Gu Y. Tobacco advertising, environmental smoking bans, and smoking in Chinese urban areas. Drug and Alcohol dependence, 2012;124:121-127.

(5).Yang X, Kelly BC ,Yang T*. The influence of self-exempting beliefs and social networks on daily smoking: A mediation relationship explored. Psychology of Addictive Behaviors, 2014, 28(3):921-927.

(6).Yang, T*., Barnett, R., Rockett, I. R., Yang, X. Y., Wu, D., Zheng, W., & Li, L. (2015). The impact of regional economic reliance on the tobacco industry on current smoking in China. Health & place, 33, 159-171.

(7). Yang, T*., Jiang, S., Barnett, R., Oliffe, J. L., Wu, D., Yang, X., ... & Cottrell, R. R. (2015). Who smokes in smoke-free public places in China? Findings from a 21 city survey. Health education research, cyv054.

(8).Yang, T*., Yu, L., Bottorff, J. L., Wu, D., Jiang, S., Peng, S., & Young, K. J. (2015). Global Health Professions Student Survey (GHPSS) in Tobacco Control in China. American journal of health behavior, 39(5), 732-741.

(9). Yang, X. Y., Kelly, B. C., & Yang, T*. (2015). Together we have fun: native?place networks and sexual risk behaviours among Chinese male rural?urban migrants. Sociology of Health & Illness.

(10). Yang, T*., Jiang, S., Barnett, R., Oliffe, J. L., Wu, D., Yang, X., ... & Cottrell, R. R. (2016). Who smokes in smoke-free public places in China? Findings from a 21 city survey. Health education research, 31(1), 36-47.

(11). Yang, T*., Barnett, R., Jiang, S., Yu, L., Xian, H., Ying, J., & Zheng, W. (2016). Gender balance and its impact on male and female smoking rates in Chinese cities. Social Science & Medicine. information:10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2011.12.021

（12）Yu, L., Cohen, J. E., Hoe, C., Yang, T*., & Wu, D. (2019). Male smoking reduction behaviour in response to China’s 2015 cigarette tax increase. Tobacco control, tobaccocontrol-2019;

(13) Peng, S., Yang, X. Y., Yang, T*., Zhang, W., & Cottrell, R. R. (2021). Uncertainty Stress, and Its Impact on Disease Fear and Prevention Behavior during the COVID-19 Epidemic in China: A Panel Study. American Journal of Health Behavior, 45(2), 334-341;

(14)Yang, X*. Y., Kelly, B., & Yang, T. (2020). Peer Association and Routine Activities in Sex Worker Patronage among Male Migrant Workers. Deviant Behavior, 1-18.

(15)Jiang, S., Yang, T*., Bullen, C., Chen, J., Yu, L., Peng, S., & Rockett, I. R. (2020). Real-world unassisted quit success and related contextual factors: a population-based study of Chinese male smokers. Tobacco Control.

Address: Center for Tobacco Control Research, Zhejiang University School of Medicine,Hangzhou, 310058 ,China

Tel: +86-571-88208219 Yingzhong Yang；
Email: ytingzhongyang@yahoo.com; Tingzhongyang@zju.edu.cn

Website: http://english.tfcampuschina.com