Featured in Miller-McCune
"The True Cost of Tobacco" February 18, 2010
Elisabeth Best reports on Stephen Block and Patrick Webb's study linking tobacco use in developing countries to malnutrition in children.

Featured in Voice of America
"Tobacco Use Worsens Malnutrition in Developing Countries" September 15, 2009
Steven Block was interviewed on Voice of America Radio’s “Our World” program about his research in the October EDCC. Listen to an audio stream of the interview here.

Featured in The Times of India
"Smoking may aggravate malnutrition" August 24, 2009

Up in Smoke: Tobacco Use, Expenditure on Food, and Child Malnutrition in Developing Countries
Steven Block and Patrick Webb

"Smokers may exacerbate the problem of malnutrition in developing countries because they tend to finance their habit by dipping into the family food budget, say a pair of researchers." --TOI staff writers