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November 11, 2009 | Program Result
From 2000 to 2006, project staff and consultants at Kids Involuntarily Inhaling Secondhand Smoke (KIISS), Roseville, Calif., worked with the restaurant industry to increase the number of state and local laws banning smoking in public places.
December 2, 2008 | Program Result
The American Nonsmokers' Rights Foundation conducted a series of educational and communications activities to increase public awareness of the hazards of secondhand tobacco smoke.
October 4, 2005 | Program Result
The IMPACT Delaware Tobacco Prevention Coalition, with the American Lung Association as the lead organization, conducted statewide activities to reduce tobacco use, particularly among children and youth.
December 1, 2003 | Program Result
K. Michael Cummings, Ph.D., M.P.H., and a team of investigators at the Roswell Park Cancer Institute documented the process by which the New York City Smoke-Free Air Act was enacted and examined its economic impact on the city's restaurant and hotel industries.
May 31, 2000 | Program Result
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Inc., Boston, and a subcontractor Northeast Research, a survey research firm, carried out telephone surveys to assess the attitudes and practices of national and local unions regarding worksite smoking policies.
May 31, 2000 | Program Result
Researchers at the University of Missouri-Columbia School of Medicine analyzed the extent to which hospitals nationwide met the new smoke-free requirements.
June 1, 2000 | Program Result
Officials at the U.S. Public Health Service organized a 1996 conference designed to provide policymakers, women's organizations, and health care professionals with information on the smoking-related health issues facing American women.
April 1, 2011 | Report
This report reviews the history, scope and impact of smoke-free air laws across the country, their growing popularity and the contributions made by a number of organizations including the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
April 1, 2011 | Report
This report reviews changes in social norms and attitudes about tobacco use, as reported in national or large-scale surveys and the parallel evolution of programs supported by RWJF and its collaborators to strengthen the tobacco- control infrastructure.
April 1, 2011 | Report
This report summarizes the progress made over the past two decades in raising cigarette and other tobacco product excise taxes and in adopting and strengthening policies that limit smoking in public places and private worksites.