Buying and selling "loosies" in Baltimore: the informal exchange of cigarettes in the community context.

Since the release of the first Surgeon General's report, the proportion of adult smokers in the U.S. has been reduced by half (U.

A vision for progress in community health partnerships.

Community-based participatory research (CBPR) is an increasingly used approach for conducting research to improve community health. Using Rogers' diffusion of innovations theory as a framework, it follows that future adoption of CBPR will occur if academic and community partners perceive CBPR to have greater relative advantage, compatibility, trialability, and observability, and less complexity than other research approaches. We propose that articles published in our new peer-reviewed journal--Progress in Community Health Partnerships: Research, Education, and Action (PCHP)--can influence academic and community partners' perceptions of CBPR that promote its adoption.