Ruth E. Malone is an American

tobacco control Tobacco control is a field of international public health science, policy and practice dedicated to addressing tobacco use and thereby reducing the morbidity and mortality it causes. Since most cigarettes and cigars and hookahs contain/use to ...

researcher and policy analyst. She is professor in the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences at the

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School of

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. She has been the

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of ''

Tobacco Control Tobacco control is a field of international public health science, policy and practice dedicated to addressing tobacco use and thereby reducing the morbidity and mortality it causes. Since most cigarettes and cigars and hookahs contain/use to ...

'' since 2009. She holds the Mary Harms/Nursing Alumni Endowed Chair.

Education

Ruth Malone completed a PhD at the University of California, San Francisco and a postdoctoral fellowship in health policy research at the PR Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies at the

(UCSF).

Research

Malone is known for researching the activities of the

tobacco industry The tobacco industry comprises those persons and companies who are engaged in the growth, preparation for sale, shipment, advertisement, and distribution of tobacco and tobacco-related products. It is a global industry; tobacco can grow in any ...

with respect to

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, as well as the social construction of tobacco use. Specific tobacco-related subjects she has researched include the presence of smoking in video games in the absence of warnings, and the industry's efforts to fight attempts by Congress and military officials to raise the price of tobacco products for the military to that for civilians. Current work focuses on developing the research needed to advance an endgame for the tobacco epidemic.

References

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