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Illustrating the Health Effects of Smoking Reduction
December 2019
Tobacco use is responsible for the death of approximately eight million people worldwide, estimates the World Health Organization, and countries are increasingly making tobacco control a priority....
Podcast: Matthew Kohrman on China’s Tobacco Industry
August 2018
Tune in to SupChina Sinica Podcast with Matthew Kohrman about his book Poisonous Pandas: Chinese Cigarette Manufacturing in Critical Historical Perspectives.Listen on the SupChina's website.
Stanford students craft ways to combat big tobacco
July 2015
For Matthew Kohrman and his students, the war against tobacco needs a new communications strategy.After all, he noted, three times as many cigarettes are currently manufactured and sold worldwide...
Stanford anthropologist assesses proposed smoking bans in China
December 2014
China’s State Council has put forth draft legislation that would ban smoking in public spaces, part of the government’s larger advocacy efforts to help curb tobacco use nationwide.
Exploring China's formidable cigarette industry
March 2012
How has the cigarette become so integrated into the fabric of everyday life across the People's Republic of China? To get to the heart of this question, a diverse group of experts met Mar.
As Stanford center opens in China, faculty showcase research
March 2012
Along with the speeches and ceremonies to mark the opening of the Stanford Center at Peking University, FSI scholars will show off their work examining China’s role in the world.
Kohrman's ground-breaking study of cigarette warning labels
August 2011
What influence might graphic warning labels have on cigarette sales? Matthew Kohrman is studying that question with experimental methods in Southwest China.
Give new smoking ban time, suggests China tobacco health expert Matthew Kohrman
May 2011
Tobacco is the single greatest cause of preventable death in the world today, including in China where cigarette smoking is a popular pastime.
Tobacco-control efforts in China and beyond: Recent work of AHPP faculty affiliate Matthew Kohrman
May 2011
AHPP faculty affiliate Matthew Kohrman quoted in prominent media outlets about tobacco control efforts in China.
- Harvard Global Health Review: Butting out: China's anti-smoking efforts
- Stanford Global Tobacco Prevention Research Initiative: Where are all those 'cancer sticks' produced?: Pinpointing the factories
- Science: A sense of crisis as China confronts ailments of affluence
- Stanford News: Mapping cigarette factories around the world
NGO "Pioneers for Health" promoting tobacco control in Yunnan, PRC
December 2009
Two news articles report on the activities of "Pioneers for Health," a health policy non-governmental organization founded in China a year ago with help from AHPP faculty affiliate Matthew Kohrman.
Anti-smoking efforts in China: Matthew Kohrman interviewed by China Radio International
August 2009
AHPP faculty affiliate, Matthew Kohrman, was interviewed by China Radio International (CRI) on August 13th, 2009 about tobacco control in China.
Dr. Karen Eggleston to lead Shorenstein APARC's comparative healthcare in East asia program
March 2007
Dr. Karen Eggleston will join the Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center as a center fellow on July 1, 2007. Dr. Eggleston will lead the center's program on comparative health care in East Asia.
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