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Study of Missouri Dads-to-Be Holds Promise for Ending Addiction to Tobacco, According to Schaller Anderson

Published in Nursing Home and Elder Business Week, June 10th, 2007

A woman's pregnancy may create "a teaching moment" that provides the best possible motivation for her husband to give up smoking, and that could have life-altering health impacts for the whole family.

That is one finding of a multi-year smoking cessation study conducted in a partnership between a University of Missouri-Columbia research team and Schaller Anderson, with support from the American Academy of Family Physicians Foundation.

The study has had these benefits thus far: (1.) low-income parents were thought to be a targeted group that would not participate in research, and they did; and (2.) it opened the possibility for future projects aimed...

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