Elizabeth Smith, PhD

Associate Adjunct Professor

Research has focused on "legitimate" tobacco industry activities, and tobacco industry relationships with other groups.

Tobacco Industry Responses to Public Health Campaigns

This project uses tobacco industry documents to explore how the tobacco industry has responded to public health and other campaigns that focus attention on the behaviors of the tobacco industry, and to develop a resource for advocates designing such campaigns.
Tobacco Industry Interest in Diet and Obesity Issues

This project uses tobacco industry documents and content analysis of the popular press to examine how the tobacco industry has exploited diet and obesity issues in advertising and public relations.
Corporate Social Responsibility and the Tobacco Industry

This project uses tobacco industry documents to analyze the implications of the industry's corporate social responsibility initiatives for tobacco control.
Tobacco Industry Targeting of Gays and Lesbians

Targeting of marginalized groups
Tobacco Industry and the U.S. Military

This multi-site collaborative project uses tobacco industry documents, interviews, and analysis of policies to study the influence of the tobacco industry on the U.S. military.

Education:

BA, cum laude, History, New York University, 1983

MA, History, University of Pennsylvania, 1986

PhD, History, University of Pennsylvania, 1990

Publications:

Novotny TE, Lum K, Smith EA, Wang V, Barnes R. Cigarette butts and the case for an environmental policy on hazardous cigarette waste. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 6 (2009):1690-1705.

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