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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.
January 1, 2005 | Book
In this chapter, the author chronicles the entire array of Foundation programs, from the early 1990s to the present day, aimed at reducing smoking in the United States.
January 1, 2005 | Book
This chapter describes SmokeLess States: National Tobacco Policy Initiative, one of the largest investments made by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, with $99 million authorized in grants since 1992.
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.
January 1, 2006 | Issue Brief
A look back at this pioneering collaborative effort of the Foundation, the American Medical Association (AMA) and statewide coalitions
November 1, 2006 | Program Result Report
Charlene Herst became manager of the Tobacco Prevention and Education Program within the Nevada State Health Division in February 2002.
November 1, 2006 | Program Result Report
In America's battle to curb tobacco use, every state is its own "front," and probably the fiercest battles are being fought in the American southeast.