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U.S. Public Health Service Announces New Clinical Guidelines to Help Smokers Quit
View a webcast presentation of the launch event, with details behind the guidelines.
Published: May 09, 2008
A consortium of eight federal and private-sector, nonprofit organizations collaborated to sponsor the 2008 Public Health Service guideline update. Along with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, they include the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), which coordinated the update; the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; National Cancer Institute; the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute; the National Institute on Drug Abuse; the American Legacy Foundation; and the Center for Tobacco Research and Intervention at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health.
More than 40 broad-based organizations have also endorsed the guideline.
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