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U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion

Best Practices for Comprehensive Tobacco Control Programs

About this resource:

HHS Non-systematic Review

Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Last Reviewed: January 2014

Workgroups: Tobacco Use Workgroup, Cancer Workgroup, Maternal, Infant, and Child Health Workgroup

This evidence-based guide is meant to help states build and maintain effective tobacco control programs. Components of these programs include:

  • State and community interventions 
  • Mass-reach health communication interventions 
  • Cessation interventions 
  • Surveillance and evaluation
  • Infrastructure, administration, and management

This 2014 edition of the guide describes developing integrated programs for preventing and reducing tobacco use and recommends funding levels that state programs need to be effective.

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Objectives related to this resource (20)

Reduce current tobacco use in adults — TU‑01
Improving
Reduce current cigarette smoking in adults — TU‑02
LHI label
Improving
Reduce current tobacco use in adolescents — TU‑04
LHI label
Getting worse
Reduce current e-cigarette use in adolescents — TU‑05
Little or no detectable change
Reduce current cigarette smoking in adolescents — TU‑06
Target met or exceeded
Reduce current cigar smoking in adolescents — TU‑07
Improving
Reduce current use of flavored tobacco products in adolescents who use tobacco — TU‑09
Baseline only
Eliminate cigarette smoking initiation in adolescents and young adults — TU‑10
Improving
Increase past-year attempts to quit smoking in adults — TU‑11
Little or no detectable change
Increase the proportion of adults who get advice to quit smoking from a health care provider — TU‑12
Little or no detectable change
Increase use of smoking cessation counseling and medication in adults who smoke — TU‑13
Baseline only
Increase successful quit attempts in adults who smoke — TU‑14
Little or no detectable change
Increase the number of states, territories, and DC that prohibit smoking in worksites, restaurants, and bars — TU‑17
Little or no detectable change
Reduce the proportion of people who don't smoke but are exposed to secondhand smoke — TU‑19
Little or no detectable change
Reduce the proportion of adolescents exposed to tobacco marketing — TU‑22
Little or no detectable change
Reduce current use of smokeless tobacco products among adolescents — TU‑08
Target met or exceeded
Reduce current cigarette, cigar, and pipe smoking in adults — TU‑03
Improving
Eliminate policies in states, territories, and DC that preempt local tobacco control policies — TU‑20
Little or no detectable change
Reduce the lung cancer death rate — C‑02
Improving
Increase the proportion of cancer survivors who are living 5 years or longer after diagnosis — C‑11
Baseline only

Suggested Citation

1.

National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Office on Smoking and Health. (2014). Best practices for comprehensive tobacco control programs. Preventive Services Task Force. Retrieved from https://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/php/state-and-community-work/guides-for-states.html.