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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June 20, 2012 | Program Result Report
Researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago School of Public Health surveyed 591 tobacco cessation programs for young people, evaluated 41 programs, and described programs that were sustained.
June 1, 2012 | Journal Article
Although the majority of smokers begin smoking in adolescence, for most, long-term smoking habits are crystallized in young adulthood. Approximately 22 percent of individuals ages 18 to 24 currently smoke. Despite these statistics, young adults are ...
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.
December 9, 2010 | Program Result Report
In 2005 tobacco control leaders formed the Consumer Demand Roundtable to shift the tobacco control field to seeing smokers as consumers of cessation products and services by making treatments more appealing and consumer friendly.
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.
July 1, 2010 | Journal Article
This study shows the importance of smoking cessation, but also demonstrates the importance of all three parts—quit attempts, increased treatment use and increased treatment effectiveness—play in reducing smoking prevalence.
March 1, 2010 | Journal Article
In a special supplement to the American Journal of Preventive Medicine, authors who participated in the Consumer Demand Roundtable discuss how Americans can do a better job moving smokers from the periphery to center stage in designing and implementing tobacco-control policies and treatments.
March 1, 2010 | Journal Article
Combining cessation treatment policies could increase quit rates much more than if the policies were implemented individually.This article is part of a special issue on tobacco cessation in the March 2010 edition of the American Journal of Preventive Medicine.
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.
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.