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Please plan to attend the 6th Annual Conference of the International Society for the Prevention of Tobacco Induced Diseases (ISPTID)

November 2 – 4, 2007, Little Rock, Arkansas, USA

Conference Theme: TRANSLATIONAL APPROACHES TO THE PREVENTION OF TOBACCO INDUCED DISEASES

It is with pleasure and with high expectations that the Organizing Committee for the 6th Annual Conference of the International Society for the Prevention of Tobacco Induced Diseases invites you to join us in Little Rock, Arkansas, USA November 2-4, 2007. We are excited about hosting the 2007 Conference in our beautiful city and state.

Target Audience: Physicians, scientists, public health officials, nurses, policy makers, and all health professionals who are interested in tobacco induced diseases and their prevention.
The conference theme is "Translational Approaches to the Prevention of Tobacco Induced Diseases." The importance of this conference and our work together cannot be overstated. Worldwide, every ten seconds another person dies as a result of tobacco use. In Hong Kong 5,750 people die annually from active smoking and another 1,300 die from passive smoking. In China, it is estimated that 100 million of that country’s 300 million males, now ages 0-30, will eventually die from tobacco-induced disease. While great strides have been made in the USA to make many states smoke free, tobacco induced diseases and deaths still continue at an alarming rate.

This year's ISPTID annual conference will highlight many of the areas usefully addressed at the Society's previous meetings, including mechanisms of addiction, legal and economical issues of tobacco-induced diseases, sociological and psychological issues of tobacco addiction, prevention and cessation of tobacco use, as well as cause and effect relationships for specific medical disorders. The panel of outstanding plenary speakers is guaranteed to raise new issues for you within the broad realm of tobacco- related health issues. (see Program within this website). We urge you to submit your work for oral or poster presentation (see Submissions within this website) Arkansas is the only state within the 50 US states that has used 100% of its tobacco settlement funds for health-related purposes. Two workshops have been added to this year's conference to share this health policy success story. One workshop will focus on the utilization of tobacco control funding for research and public education. The second workshop will highlight Arkansas programs for the treatment of people with tobacco dependence.

This conference is being organized by the University Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) College of Medicine's Department of Physiology and Biophysics in cooperation with UAMS College of Public Health, UAMS Arkansas Cancer Research Center, the Arkansas Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) Division of Health, the Arkansas Tobacco Settlement Commission, and the leaders of the ISPTID.

Learn more about the ISPTID within this website (click on About the ISPTID Organization, above) and more still on the Society's own website (http://www.isptid.globalink.org/.)