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April 10, 2012 | Program Result
Oral Health America, a Chicago-based organization that advocates improved dental care, launched a public education campaign to reduce the use of spit tobacco (both chewing tobacco and snuff).
January 1, 1999 | Book
This chapter of the Anthology, written by Leonard Koppett, a baseball Hall of Fame sportswriter, chronicles how Joe Garagiola led an effort that changed the way Major League Baseball viewed and responded to the problems of spit tobacco.
March 24, 2006 | Story
In the 1980s Rhys B. Jones became concerned about the increasing use of spit tobacco - and the ads that employed major league baseball players to promote spit-tobacco products.
July 1, 2003 | Issue Brief
A look back at this pioneering collaborative effort of the Foundation, the American Medical Association (AMA) and statewide coalitions
January 1, 2006 | Issue Brief
A look back at this pioneering collaborative effort of the Foundation, the American Medical Association (AMA) and statewide coalitions
April 1, 2009 | Journal Article
This article presents findings from the evaluation of Full Court Press, a five-year smoking cessation program based in schools. It describes the challenges of running a school-sponsored program during times when resources are largely devoted to high-stakes testing and provides lessons on how to successfully run a program under those conditions.
November 13, 2009 | Program Result
Huerta came to his current position with some family history: his grandfather had died from throat cancer several years earlier, so the issue of tobacco control was already a personal one.
November 13, 2009 | Program Result
This sidebar describes how TTAC helped the institute win a nearly $1 million grant for tobacco prevention and control efforts in the Latino community from the Indiana Tobacco Prevention and Cessation Agency.
October 15, 2009 | Story
IOM report confirms evidence that exposure to secondhand smoke increases the risk of heart disease.
January 1, 2006 | Chart
A look back at this pioneering collaborative effort of the Foundation, the American Medical Association (AMA) and statewide coalitions