T Pechacek

Biographic Data

ID6063065
NAMET Pechacek
GIVEN NAMEST
FAMILY NAMEPechacek
SIGNATUREPECHACEK T
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS7
TOTAL CITATIONS10
WORKS AS AUTHOR7
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1986
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2002
H-INDEX2

  • How to access tobacco industry documents

    Geoffrey Ferris Wayne, Reynolds Reynolds et al.ARTICLETobacco Control2002

    Context: Internal industry documents may shed light on how cigarettes are designed to promote youth smoking

  • Tobacco Control activites of primary-care physicians in the Community Intervention Trial for Smoking Cessation

    Judith K Ockene, J Ockene et al.ARTICLETobacco Control1997

    The COMMIT intervention had a significant effect on some reported physician behaviours, office practices, and policies. However, most physicians still did not use state-of-the-art smoking intervention practices with their patients and there was little, or no, difference between patient reports of intervention activities of physicians in the Intervention and Comparison communities. Better systems and incentives are needed to attract physicians and…

  • Predictors of smoking cessation in a cohort of adult smokers followed for five years

    Norman Hymowitz, K Michael Cummings et al.ARTICLETobacco Control1997

    Despite the fact that most smokers expressed a strong desire to stop smoking in 1988, the majority, especially the most dependent heavy smokers (>25 cigarettes/day), struggled unsuccessfully to achieve this goal

  • Son of Premier

    Jeanne Perla, T Pechacek et al.ARTICLETobacco Control1995

  • The illegal sale of cigarettes to US minors

    K Michael Cummings, Terry F Pecháček et al.ARTICLEAmerican Journal of Public Health1994Cited by: 5References: 7

    Data available from recent national surveys on the cigarette consumption and purchasing practices of teenage smokers were used to generate state-specific estimates of the number of teenage smokers and cigarette sales to minors. In 1991, approximately 2.7 million teenage cigarette smokers consumed an average of 28.3 million cigarettes per day (516 million packs per year). An estimated 255 million packs of cigarettes were sold illegally to minors i…

  • Community impact of a localized smoking cessation contest

    Harry A Lando, Barbara Loken et al.ARTICLEAmerican Journal of Public Health1990Cited by: 2References: 17

    The present study assessed the effectiveness of a localized community contest timed to coincide with a statewide smoking cessation contest. Follow-up interviews were conducted with 218 local contest participants and 198 participants from the statewide contest. Overall cessation impact (participation rate x abstinence) was 0.39 percent for the local contest and 0.09 percent for the statewide contest. Localized community contests offered in conjunc…

  • Occupational and worksite norms and attitudes about smoking cessation

    Gail Sorensen, Terry F Pecháček et al.ARTICLEAmerican Journal of Public Health1986Cited by: 3References: 18

    The relationship of worksite and occupational norms about smoking to workers' attitudes toward smoking cessation was studied in a defined population. From smokers identified in a self-administered questionnaire circulated to all employees of 10 worksites in suburban Minneapolis, 447 smokers were randomly selected and interviewed. Attitudes and social norms about smoking cessation were compared by occupation and worksite using analysis of covarian…