Generally, my research focuses on disease prevention and health promotion. More specifically, my research has most frequently addressed tobacco control in populations that present unique challenges to tobacco prevalence rate reductions such as weight concerned individuals, those with co-morbid substance use, and Veterans. More recently at the University of Texas at El Paso, I have been assessing Hispanic health and health disparities, with particular emphases on light smoking, smoking cessation, other substance use behaviors, body weight and image, and community level tobacco control interventions (e.g., development, implementation, and assessment of large scale media campaigns). From this work, evidence is emerging that Hispanic individuals on the border smoke at non trivial rates, are most often light or intermittent smokers, often engage in use of alcohol or other substances along with tobacco, demonstrate cessation related weight concern, and warrant the empirical and theoretical development of prevention and intervention efforts both at the individual and community levels to reduce tobacco prevalence.