Publications and Presentations

  • Anti-tobacco Mass Media Campaigns

  • Siegel, M. & Biener, L. (2000). The Impact of Anti-Smoking Media Campaigns on Progression to Established Smoking: Results of a Longitudinal Youth Study in Massachusetts. American Journal of Public Health, 90, 380-386.
  • Biener, L. (2000). Commentary: Adult and youth response to the Massachusetts antitobacco television campaign. Journal of Public Health Management and Practice, 6, 40-44.
  • Biener, L., McCallum-Keeler, G. & Nyman, A. L. (2000). Adults' response to Massachusetts Antitobacco Television Advertisements: Impact of viewer and ad characteristics. Tobacco Control. 9,401-407.
  • Biener, L. and Taylor, T. (2002) The continuing importance of emotion in tobacco control media campaigns: A response to Hastings and MacFadyen. Tobacco Control 11, 75-77.
  • Biener, L. (2002). Anti-tobacco advertisements by Massachusetts and Philip Morris: What teenagers think. Tobacco Control 11 (Suppl II), ii43-ii46.
  • Biener, L., Ji, M., Gilpin, E.A. and Albers, A.B.(2004) The Impact of Emotional Tone, Message, and Broadcast Parameters in Youth Anti-smoking Advertisements. Journal of Health Communication 9, 259-274.
  • Biener L, Reimer R, Wakefield M, Szczypka G, Rigotti N, Connolly G. (2006) Relative impact of smoking cessation aids and mass media among recent quitters. American Journal of Preventive Medicine, 30, 217-224.
  • Ji, M., Xiong, C., Gilpin, E. A., & Biener, L. (2007). Assessing the effectiveness of anti-smoking media campaigns by recall and rating scores:  A pattern-mixture approach. Journal of Data Science, 5, 23-40.

  • Clean Indoor Air Regulations and Second-hand Tobacco Smoke

  • Biener, L., Cullen, D., Di, Z. X., & Hammond, S. K. (1997). Household smoking restrictions and adolescent's exposure to environmental tobacco smoke. Preventive Medicine, 26, 358-363.
  • Biener, L., & Siegel, M. (1997). Behavior intentions of the public after bans on smoking in restaurants and bars. American Journal of Public Health, 87, 2042-2044.
  • Biener, L., & Fitzgerald, G. (1999). Smoky bars and restaurants: Who avoids them and why? Public Health Management and Practice, 5, 74-78.
  • Biener, L., & Nyman, A. (1999). The effect of worksite smoking policy on smoking cessation: The results of a longitudinal study. Journal of Environmental and Occupational Medicine, 41, 1121-1127.
  • Skeer, M., & Siegel, M. (2003). The descriptive epidemiology of local restaurant smoking regulations in Massachusetts: analysis of the protection of restaurant customers and workers. Tobacco Control; 12:221-226.
  • Siegel, M. Albers, A.B., Cheng, D.M., Biener, L. and Rigotti, N.A. (2004). The effect of local restaurant smoking regulations on secondhand smoke exposure among youths. American Journal of Public Health, 94, 321-325.
  • Albers, A.B., Siegel, M., Cheng, D.M., Rigotti, N.A, & Biener, L. (2004). Effects of restaurant and bar smoking regulations on exposure to environmental tobacco smoke among Massachusetts adults. American Journal of Public Health, 94, 1959-1964.
  • Skeer, M., George, S., Hamilton, W.L., Cheng, D.M., & Siegel, M. (2004). Are local restaurant smoking regulations fostering disparities in health protection? An analysis of town-level characteristics related to policy adoption in Massachusetts. American Journal of Public Health, 94: 286-292.
  • Albers, A.B., Siegel, M., Cheng, D.M., Biener, L., & Rigotti, N.A. (2004) Relation between local restaurant smoking regulations and attitudes towards the prevalence and social acceptability of smoking: a study of youths and adults who eat out predominantly at restaurants in their town. Tobacco Control, 2004; 13: 347 - 355.
  • Thomson, C.C., Siegel, M., Winickoff, J., Biener, L., & Rigotti, N.A. (2005). Household smoking bans and adolescents perceived prevalence of smoking and social acceptability of smoking. Preventive Medicine, 41, 349-356.
  • Siegel, M., Albers, A.B., Cheng, D.M., Biener, L., & Rigotti, N.A. (2005) Effect of local restaurant smoking regulations on progression to smoking among youths. Tobacco Control, 300-306.
  • Skeer, M., Cheng, D.M., Rigotti, N.A., & Siegel, M. (2005) Secondhand smoke exposure in the workplace. American Journal of Preventive Medicine, 28, 331-337.
  • Deverell M, Randolph C, Albers A, Hamilton W, Siegel M. (2006). Diffusion of local restaurant smoking regulations in Massachusetts: identifying disparities in health protection for population subgroups. Journal of Public Health Management and Practice, 12: 261-268.
  • Albers, A.B., Siegel, M., Cheng, D.M., Biener, L., & Rigotti, N.A. (2007). Effect of smoking regulations in local restaurants on smokers' anti-smoking attitudes and quitting behaviours. Tobacco Control, 16(2), 101-106.
  • Biener, L., Garrett, C.A., Skeer, M., Siegel, M., & Connolly, G. (2007). The effects on smokers of Bostons's smoke-free bar ordinance:  A longitudinal analysis of changes in compliance, patronage, policy support, and smoking at home. Journal of Public Health Management and Practice, 13(6), 630-636.
  • Siegel, M., Albers, A., Cheng, D., Hamilton, W. L., & Biener, L. (In Press). Local Restaurant Smoking Regulations and the Adolescent Smoking Initiation Process:  Results of a Multi-level Contextual Analysis among Massachusetts Youths. Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine.

 

  • Methodological Papers

  • Celebucki, C., Biener, L., & Koh, H. K. (1998). Methods and strategies for evaluation - Massachusetts. Cancer, 83, (12 supp.), 2760-2765.
  • Biener, L., Garrett, C.A., Gilpin, E.A., Roman, A.M., & Currivan, D.B. (2004). Consequences of declining survey response rates for smoking prevalence estimates. American Journal of Preventive Medicine. 27:254-257.
  • Currivan, D., Nyman, A.L., Turner, C.F., & Biener, L. (2004). Does telephone audio computer-assisted survey interviewing improve the accuracy of prevalence estimates of youth smoking? Evidence from the UMass Tobacco Study. Public Opinion Quarterly, 68, 542-564.

 

  • TOBACCO HARM REDUCTION/NEW TOBACCO PRODUCTS
  • Biener, L., Bogen, K., & Connolly, G. (2007). Impact of corrective health information on consumers' perceptions of "reduced exposure" tobacco products. Tobacco Control, 16, 306-311.

 

  • Tobacco Marketing and Promotion

  • Biener, L., & Siegel, M. (2000). Tobacco marketing and adolescent smoking: More support for causal hypothesis. American Journal of Public Health, 90, 407-411.
  • Biener, L. & Siegel, M. (2001). The role of tobacco advertising and promotion in smoking initiation. In National Cancer Institute. Change Adolescent Smoking Prevalence. Smoking and Tobacco Control Monograph No. 14. Bethesda, MD: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, National Institutes of Health. National Cancer Institute, NIH Pub. No. 02-5086. http://cancercontrol.cancer.gov/tcrb/monographs/14/m14_13.pdf
  • Albers, A. B. & Biener, L. (2003). Adolescent participation in tobacco promotions: The role of psychosocial factors. Pediatrics 111, 402-406.
  • Biener, L. & Albers, A. B. (2004). Young adults: Vulnerable new targets of tobacco marketing. American Journal of Public Health, 94, 326-330.
  • Biener, L., Nyman, A. L., Kline, R. L., and Albers, A. A.(2004) Adults-only: The prevalence of tobacco promotions in bars and clubs in the Boston area. Tobacco Control 13, 403-408.
  • Bogen, K., Biener, L. & Nyman, A. L. (2006). Consequences of Marketing Exceptions in the Master Settlement Agreement: Exposure of Youth to Adult-Only Tobacco Promotions. Nicotine and Tobacco Research, 8, 467-473.

 

  • Tobacco Taxes

  • Biener, L., Cohen, B., Anderka, M., & Aseltine, R. (1998). Reactions of adult and teenaged smokers to the Massachusetts Tobacco Tax. American Journal of Public Health, 88, 1389-1391.
  • Hamilton W.L., Biener L., & Rodger C.N. (2005). Who Supports Tobacco Excise Taxes? Factors Associated with Towns' and Individuals' Support in Massachusetts. Journal of Public Health Management and Practice, 11, 333-340.

 

  • tOBACCO USE, NORMS AND BEHAVIOR CHANGE
  • Siegel, M., & Biener, L. (1997). Evaluating the impact of statewide antitobacco campaigns: The Massachusetts and California Tobacco Control Programs. Journal of Social Issues, 53, 147-168.
  • Biener, L., Harris, J., & Hamilton, W. (2000). Impact of the Massachusetts Tobacco Control Programme: Population-based trend analysis. British Medical Journal, 321, 351-354.
  • Burns, D. M., Anderson, C. M., Johnson, M., Major, J. M., Biener, L., Vaughn, J., and Shanks, T. G. (2000). Cessation and cessation measures among adult daily smokers: National and state specific data. In National Cancer Institute. Population Based Smoking Cessation. Smoking & Tobacco Control Monograph No. 12. Bethesda, MD: U.S. D.H.H.S., NIH, Pub. No. 00-4892.
  • Taylor, T. M. & Biener, L. (2001). Bidi-smoking among Massachusetts teenagers. Preventive Medicine, 32 , 9-92.
  • Nyman, A. L., Taylor, T. M. and Biener, L. (2002) Trends in cigar smoking and perceptions of health risks among Massachusetts adults. Tobacco Control 11 (Suppl II), ii25-ii29.
  • Thorndike, A. N., Biener, L., & Rigotti, N. A. (2002). The impact on smoking cessation of switching nicotine replacement therapy to over-the-counter status. American Journal of Public Health 92(3), 437-442.
  • Hamilton, W. L., Biener, L., & Brennan, R. T. (2007). Do local tobacco regulations influence perceived smoking norms? Evidence from adult and youth surveys in Massachusetts., Health Education Research (Vol. doi:10.1093/her/cym054).
  • Levy, D. E., Thorndike, A. N., Biener, L., & Rigotti, N. A. (2007). Use of nicotine replacement therapy to reduce or delay smoking but not to quit:  prevalence and association with subsequent cessation efforts. Tobacco Control, 16, 389-384.

 

  • Youth Access to Tobacco

  • Siegel, M., Biener, L., & Rigotti, N.A. (1999). The effect of local tobacco sales laws on adolescent smoking initiation. Preventive Medicine, 29, 334-342.
  • Thomson, C.C., Gokhale, M., Biener, L., Siegel, M., & Rigotti, N.A. (2004). State-wide Evaluation of Youth Access Ordinances in Practice: Effects of the Implementation of Community-level Regulations in Massachusetts. Journal of Public Health Management and Practice, 10:481-489.
  • Thomson, C. C., Hamilton, W. L., Siegel, M. B., Biener, L., & Rigotti, N. A. (2007). Effect of local youth-access regulations on progression to established smoking among youths in Massachusetts. Tobacco Control, 16(2), 119-126.