July 29, 2009
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Smoke-Free New Jersey and Smoke-Free Philly conducted communications campaigns to ensure successful implementation of smoke-free indoor air laws in New Jersey and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
July 11, 2009
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Addressing Tobacco in Managed Care supported evaluations of replicable efforts by managed care organizations to integrate effective tobacco-cessation interventions into everyday clinical practice and the basic health care these organizations provide.
November 1, 2006
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The National Tobacco Control Technical Assistance Consortium is a one-stop clearinghouse to connect tobacco-control advocates in this country at the state and local level with high-quality and timely technical assistance.
January 1, 2005
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The Connecticut Peer Review Organization held a Seniors and Smoking Conference to expand recruitment activities for the Medicare Stop Smoking Program, a federally funded demonstration project to test tobacco-cessation interventions as a Medicare benefit.
March 1, 2005
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From 2000 through 2003, researchers from the Oregon Research Institute, Eugene, Ore., implemented and evaluated a tobacco cessation program that dentists provided to low-income people in public clinics.
October 1, 2005
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North Carolina's Department of Health and Human Services, Raleigh, N.C., advanced its tobacco use prevention and control mission by establishing three youth-led tobacco use prevention centers across the state.
June 1, 2004
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The Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco published 20 issues of a new, peer-reviewed journal - Nicotine & Tobacco Research - which is designed to promote a dialogue among investigators working on nicotine and tobacco related research in diverse fields.
October 1, 2003
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Program Result
Brandeis University, Waltham, Mass., developed a system for treating tobacco use and dependence as a chronic disease, along with a planning guide for its implementation in a clinical setting.
October 1, 2003
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Program Result
During 2001 and 2002, Morse Enterprises, a communications and information brokerage company, Silver Spring, Md., worked to pursue a national strategy for tobacco control in minority communities.
March 1, 2002
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Between 1995 and 1997, the HMO Group, (now the Alliance of Community Health Plans), New Brunswick, N.J. worked to improve tobacco prevention and cessation activities at the Alliance's member health plans.
