Leading Change to Save Lives
August 15, 2012 | Feature/Story
Determined to make progress in tobacco control, RWJF invested nearly $700 million between 1991 and 2009 in seven groundbreaking programs.
Although tobacco use has decreased, it is the leading cause of death in the United States. Implementing a combination of policy changes including clean indoor air laws, higher per-pack taxes, and cessation efforts are proven to reduce tobacco use and exposure to secondhand smoke.
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Adoption of Policies to Treat Tobacco Dependence in US Medical Groups
November 1, 2010 | Journal Article
Most larger U.S. medical practice groups have some strategy in place to treat patients' tobacco dependence. But few have instituted a broad, multistrategy effort as recommended by Public Health Service guidelines, according to this survey-based study.
Smoke Screen
February 1, 1999 | Program Result Report
From 1997 to 1998, researchers at Brown University School of Medicine, Providence, R.I., examined cigarette smoking as a barrier to cancer screening - both mammography and Pap tests - in women aged 40 to 75.
States Slash Tobacco Prevention and Cessation Budgets
December 1, 2011 | Issue Brief
Tobacco use is the leading cause of preventable death in the United States. States collect billions of dollars in tobacco revenue from the 1998 tobacco settlement and tobacco taxes—with less than two cents of every dollar going to fight tobacco use.
Researchers Explore a Single Way to Treat the "Big Four" Health-Risk Behaviors
May 1, 2005 | Program Result Report
The Bayer Institute for Health Care Communication explored with health care experts the development of a single intervention tool for treating the "big four" health risk behaviors: sedentary lifestyle, risky drinking, unhealthy diet and smoking.
Cancer Conference Holds "Anti-Tobacco Day" to Address Tobacco Issues for Minorities
September 1, 2003 | Program Result Report
A 2002 Intercultural Cancer Council conference in Washington, the "Eighth Biennial Symposium on Minorities, the Medically Underserved and Cancer," included an Anti-Tobacco Day.
California Researchers Develop Interactive Program for Waiting-Room Patients about Smoking and Alcohol Use
December 1, 2003 | Program Result Report
Researchers at the University of California, San Francisco, School of Dentistry worked to revise their prototype patient education program - Video Doctor - so that patients can operate it independently in their physicians' offices.