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April 10, 2012 | Program Result Report
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.
November 13, 2009 | Program Result Report
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 Report
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.
July 14, 2009 | Program Result Report
From 1993 to 2004, SmokeLess States: Statewide Tobacco Prevention and Control Initiative supported statewide efforts to reduce tobacco use, particularly among children and youth.
April 1, 2009 | Journal Article
This article 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.
July 31, 2008 | Program Result Report
From mid-2001 through 2004, the Maine Coalition on Smoking or Health, with Consumers for Affordable Health Care Foundation as the lead organization, conducted statewide activities to reduce tobacco use, particularly among children and youth.
January 1, 2006 | Chart
A look back at this pioneering collaborative effort of the Foundation, the American Medical Association (AMA) and statewide coalitions