Up in Smoke

The Brown University School of Public Health has built an international reputation for producing impactful research on nicotine addiction and smoking cessation. Work pioneered at Brown by the Center of Alcohol and Addiction Studies starting in the 1980s advocated for a change in the nation’s attitude toward alcohol and tobacco dependence. Those efforts have expanded and flourished since the establishment of the School of Public Health a decade ago: Brown now boasts dozens of faculty members working to help people quit smoking. Among the leading scholars in this domain, Dr. Jasjit S. Ahluwalia and Dr. Jennifer Tidey, stand out as pioneering scholars and advocates for tobacco harm reduction.