UCSF is conducting important research on how to treat tobacco addiction, the effects of secondhand smoke, and other tobacco-related topics. This page provides information about these projects and information on how you can get involved.
Professor Suzaynn Schick is recruiting healthy nonsmokers who are not exposed to SHS in daily life to study the effects of acute exposure to SHS on nasal congestion on both healthy and allergic individuals.
This is a study on lung function at rest and during exercise in flight attendants who worked in commercial aircraft prior to the ban on cigarette smoking.
Dr. Mark Rubinstein, from the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) Department of Pediatrics, is conducting a study to explore how teenagers become addicted to nicotine.