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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July 11, 2009 | Program Result Report
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.
National Program
Effective tobacco treatment as part of basic health care.
January 1, 1998 | Program Result Report
Battelle Memorial Institute carried out 10 in-depth ethnographic studies that supplemented a study of vendor compliance with laws restricting minors' access to tobacco conducted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention - Office on Smoking and Health.
December 1, 2010 | Journal Article
A national evaluation of community-based youth smoking cessation programs developed a model for real-world, long-term program evaluations.
August 31, 1998 | Program Result Report
SmokeFree Educational Services, Inc., New York, carried out a project to purchase a smokefree advertising campaign on the roofs of New York City taxi cabs.
June 1, 2001 | Program Result Report
The nonprofit Overview Foundation, Canaan, Conn., carried out an expansion of efforts of its Mountainside Treatment Center to incorporate nicotine dependence into its substance abuse treatment program.
January 1, 2009 | Journal Article
This article focuses on the need to envision a more technologically enabled addiction treatment system in the year 2020, describes how this vision of the future might work, and offers ideas about how to achieve such a system.
March 1, 2010 | Journal Article
This paper provides the analytic framework that guides two subsequent papers in this special supplement that use computer simulation modeling to show how these specific policies (and others) can impact reductions in smoking prevalence.
January 28, 2011 | Program Result Report
Bridging the Gap: Research Informing Practice for Healthy Youth Behavior conducts research on how laws, policies, practices, programs and other environmental influences at the state, community and school levels affect youth behaviors.
March 1, 2010 | Journal Article
Taking a "consumer perspective" to provide more smokers with tobacco-cessation products and services that they find appealing and effective could increase the nation's quit rates. IDEO, an innovative product design firm, identified eight consumer-centered design principles for enhancing smokers' experiences with cessation treatments.