Lynn T Kozlowski

Biographic Data

ID4229557
NAMELynn T Kozlowski
GIVEN NAMESLynn T
FAMILY NAMEKozlowski
SIGNATUREKOZLOWSKI L T
AFFILIATIONSPennsylvania State University
ORCID0000-0003-0634-5774
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS35
TOTAL CITATIONS60
AUTHOR COUNT35
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1975
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX4

  • Assessing Public Opinion for Very Low Nicotine Policies: Using Open-Ended Responses to Evaluate Quantitative Survey Data and Better Inform Communication Strategies

    Natasha C Allard, Cierra A Balfour et al.ARTICLESubstance Use & Misuse2026

    Objective The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced plans to establish a maximum allowable nicotine level in cigarettes. Understanding public views on very low nicotine cigarettes (VLNC) is important for policymaking and message development. To provide more reliable insights than those drawn from closed-ended survey items alone, we compared policy preference results from the full survey sample with those from respondents whose open-ende…

  • Use of Inhaled Nicotine and Cannabis Products among Adults Who Vape Both Substances

    Danielle M Smith, Andrew Hyland et al.ARTICLESubstance Use & Misuse2022

    Background Co-occurring use (co-use) of nicotine and cannabis is common, and represents a broad range of use behaviors, including concurrent use, sequential use, and co-administration. Co-use has primarily been examined through the lens of smoked tobacco and cannabis. Little is known about those who co-use vaped nicotine and cannabis, and the degree to which specific co-use behaviors are associated, based on mode of use and/or substance.Methods W…

  • Obsolete tobacco control themes can be hazardous to public health: The need for updating views on absolute product risks and harm reduction

    Open AccessLynn T Kozlowski, David B AbramsARTICLEBMC Public Health2016

    The Surgeon General in 2014 concluded that by far the greatest danger to public health was from cigarettes and other combusted products. At the same time the evidence base for smokeless tobacco and alternative nicotine delivery systems (ANDS) had grown. Product innovation and tobacco/nicotine bio-behavioral, epidemiological and public health sciences demonstrate that low nitrosamine smokeless tobacco (e.g., Swedish snus), and ANDS have substantia…

  • Cigarette prohibition and the need for more prior testing of the WHO TobReg's global nicotine-reduction strategy

    Open AccessLynn T KozlowskiARTICLETobacco Control2016

    One can expect that the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) Conference of the Parties may well be influenced by the recent WHO TobReg ‘Advisory Note’1 that supports, albeit with a host of caveats, recommendations to implement product regulations requiring reduction of nicotine levels in cigarettes.2–4 Note that these cigarettes are not the same as conventional lower yield cigarettes that were subject to compensatory smoking that ma…

  • Withholding differential risk information on legal consumer nicotine/tobacco products: The public health ethics of health information quarantines

    Open AccessLynn T Kozlowski, David SweanorARTICLEInternational Journal of Drug…2016

    The United States provides an example of a country with (a) legal tobacco/nicotine products (e.g., snus, other smokeless tobacco, cigarettes) differing greatly in risks to health and (b) respected health information websites that continue to omit or provide incorrect differential risk information. Concern for the principles of individual rights, health literacy, and personal autonomy (making decisions for oneself), which are key principles of pub…

  • Cigarette Smoking and Mental Illness: A Study of Nicotine Withdrawal

    Philip H Smith, Gregory G Homish et al.ARTICLEAmerican Journal of Public Health2014Cited by: 1References: 35

    Objectives. We compared prevalence, severity, and specific symptom profiles for nicotine withdrawal across categories of mental illness. We also examined the influence of nicotine withdrawal on efforts to quit smoking among those with mental illness. Methods. We analyzed data from 2 sources: wave 1 of the National Epidemiologic Survey on Alcohol and Related Conditions, limiting the sample to current smokers (2001–2002; n = 9913); and a 2-wave coh…

  • Cigarette Marketing and Packaging

    Open AccessAndrew A Strasser, Lynn T KozlowskiARTICLEThe AMA Journal of Ethic2013

    The Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act (FSPTCA) of 2009 gave the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) authority to regulate tobacco products in several ways, including restricting cigarette packaging, requiring the inclusion of graphic warning labels (section 201 d), banning misleading descriptors such as "light" and "low tar" (section 911 a-b) that imply the product is less harmful, setting standards for nicotine conte…

  • Ending versus controlling versus employing addiction in the tobacco-caused disease endgame: Moral psychological perspectives

    Open AccessLynn T KozlowskiARTICLETobacco Control2013

    Even though interest in reducing or eliminating tobacco-caused diseases is a common goal in tobacco control, many experts hold different views on addiction as a target of intervention. Some consider tobacco-caused addiction as a tobacco-caused disease to be eliminated alongside the other diseases. Some consider tobacco-caused addiction as a much lower priority disease to be eliminated, and a subset of this group is prepared to employ addiction to…

  • Effects of a Complete Smoking Ban on Inpatients at an Intermediate to Long-Term Psychiatric Facility

    Open AccessPhilip H Smith, Gregory G Homish et al.ARTICLECommunity Mental Health Journal2012Cited by: 3References: 16

  • Perceptions of and willingness to engage in public health precautions to prevent 2009 H1N1 influenza transmission

    Open AccessMarc T Kiviniemi, Pavani K Ram et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2011

    Results suggest that individual interpretation of actions differ widely. The results suggest that current recommendations are not clear to laypeople and are open to different interpretations. These varying interpretations should be considered in crafting public health messages about precautionary behaviors

  • Spousal and Alcohol-Related Predictors of Smoking Cessation: A Longitudinal Study in a Community Sample of Married Couples

    Katherine M Dollar, Gregory G Homish et al.ARTICLEAmerican Journal of Public Health2009Cited by: 6References: 17

    We investigated the longitudinal influence of spousal and individual heavy drinking and heavy smoking on smoking cessation among married couples. Couples' (N = 634) past-year smoking, alcohol problems, and heavy drinking were assessed. We used an event history analysis and found that spousal and one's own heavy smoking and one's own heavy drinking decreased the likelihood of smoking cessation. Heavy drinking and spousal behavior should be conside…

  • Ignoring puff counts: Another shortcoming of the Federal Trade Commission cigarette testing programme

    Lynn T Kozlowski, Courtney A Whetzel et al.ARTICLETobacco Control2008

    The FTC has failed to seek or preserve puff count information that the industry finds important. Any standard test of tar and nicotine yields should at minimum preserve puff count information

  • Maximum yields might improve public health—if filter vents were banned: A lesson from the history of vented filters

    Lynn T Kozlowski, Richard J O’connor et al.ARTICLETobacco Control2006

    Filter ventilation is the dominant design feature of the modern cigarette that determines yields of tar, nicotine, and carbon monoxide on smoking machine tests. The commercial use of filter ventilation was precipitated by the 1964 United States Surgeon-General's report, further advanced by the adoption of an official Federal Trade Commission test in 1967, and still further advanced by the inclusion of a gas phase (carbon monoxide) measure in 1979…

  • An extremely compensatible cigarette by design: Documentary evidence on industry awareness and reactions to the Barclay filter design cheating the tar testing system

    Lynn T Kozlowski, NANCY A DRESCHEL et al.ARTICLETobacco Control2005

    The design problems with Barclay were readily understood by cigarette manufacturers, including the maker of Barclay, before official governmental evaluations occurred. Testing involving measured exposures to human smokers may in the end be crucial to identifying problems with novel cigarette designs

  • Three soliloquies on tobacco industry funding of university research

    Lynn T KozlowskiARTICLETobacco Control2003

    The view on tobacco industry funding for university research, from three very differing perspectives

  • First, tell the truth: A dialogue on human rights, deception, and the use of smokeless tobacco as a substitute for cigarettes

    Lynn T KozlowskiARTICLETobacco Control2003

    The use of smokeless tobacco as a substitute for cigarettes raises many scientific and ethical issues, as the fictitious discussion below reveals

  • African Americans’ Attitudes Toward Cigarette Excise Taxes

    Gary King, Robyn K Mallett et al.ARTICLEAmerican Journal of Public Health2003Cited by: 4References: 21

    Objectives. This study examined African Americans’ opinions regarding cigarette excise taxes and other tobacco control issues. Methods. A stratified cluster sample of US congressional districts represented by African Americans was selected. African Americans from 10 districts were interviewed. Results. Forty-seven percent of respondents stated that taxes on tobacco products should be increased, whereas about 30% believed that they should be reduc…

  • Beliefs about “Light” and “Ultra Light” cigarettes and efforts to change those beliefs: An overview of early efforts and published research

    Lynn T Kozlowski, Janine L PillitteriARTICLETobacco Control2001

    When used as a descriptor for foods, the term “light” has unambiguous meaning. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) labelling regulations for foods require that foods labelled “light” must meet uniform criteria as defined by the FDA. Specifically, light foods must be either reduced in fat by at least 50% or reduced in calories by at least one third.1 Consumers can therefore be assured that a food labelled “light” actually represents a generally…

  • Filter ventilation and nicotine content of tobacco in cigarettes from Canada, the United Kingdom, and the United States

    Lynn T Kozlowski, Nidhi Mehta et al.ARTICLETobacco Control1998

    Filter ventilation appears to be the predominant method for reducing machine-smoked yields of tar, nicotine, and CO in three countries. However, some brands contain about twice as much nicotine (total content or percent nicotine) as do others, indicating that tobacco types or blends and tobacco castings can be used to manipulate nicotine content and nicotine delivery of cigarettes

  • Few smokers know their cigarettes have filter vents

    Lynn T Kozlowski, Erica Lynne White et al.ARTICLEAmerican Journal of Public Health1998References: 6

    Few smokers know their cigarettes have filter vents. L T Kozlowski, E L White, C T Sweeney, B A Yost, F M Ahern, and M E GoldbergCopyRight https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.88.4.681-a Published Online: October 07, 2011

  • Nicotine Addiction: Implications for Public Health Policy

    Open AccessStephen J Heishman, Lynn T Kozlowski et al.ARTICLEJournal of Social Issues1997Cited by: 1References: 51

    Although the morbidity and mortality caused by cigarette smoking occur in adulthood, the initiation of tobacco use and the development of nicotine addiction typically occur during adolescence. The purpose of this paper is to examine the determinants of nicotine addiction, focusing on the development of addiction in youth, and to explore implications for public health policy. An understanding of the pharmacological and nonpharmacological factors t…

  • Smokers are unaware of the filter vents now on most cigarettes: Results of a national survey

    Lynn T Kozlowski, Margaret Goldberg et al.ARTICLETobacco Control1996

    Smokers are generally unaware of the presence and function of filter vents-a major design feature subject to behavioural blocking by smokers and now present on most cigarettes in the United States. Smokers and policy-makers need to be informed about the presence of filter vents and how vent blocking increases tar and nicotine yields from ostensibly very low-yield cigarettes

  • Tobacco use, the health effects of moderate alcohol drinking, and the assessment of their interaction

    Open AccessLynn T Kozlowski, Debra A Heller et al.ARTICLEContemporary Drug Problems1994References: 5

  • Report of the Tobacco Policy Research Study Group on Adjunctive Medications for Managing Nicotine Dependence

    John Slade, Gregory N Connolly et al.ARTICLETobacco Control1992

    Because smoking is so common, and because its complications are so common and so devastating,1 nicotine dependence is the most common serious medical problem in the United States.2,3 Clinical approaches to management of this condition have improved markedly over the past 15 years.3,4 Substantial advances in behavioural therapy have been complemented by the introduction of pharmacological agents that ameliorate nicotine withdrawal. Though these ma…

  • Report of the Tobacco Policy Research Study Group on Tobacco Products

    John Slade, Gregory N Connolly et al.ARTICLETobacco Control1992