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

Tobacco Use: Smoke-Free Policies

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Systematic Review

Source: The Guide to Community Preventive Services

Last Reviewed: November 2012

Workgroups: Tobacco Use Workgroup

The Community Preventive Services Task Force (CPSTF) recommends smoke-free policies to reduce secondhand smoke exposure and tobacco use. CPSTF found strong evidence that smoke‑free policies reduce secondhand smoke exposure, tobacco use, and tobacco-related diseases and deaths and increase successful quit attempts. In addition, economic evidence indicates that smoke-free policies can reduce health care costs substantially and that smoke-free policies don’t hurt businesses, including bars and restaurants.

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Objectives related to this resource (6)

Increase the number of states, territories, and DC that prohibit smoking in worksites, restaurants, and bars — TU‑17
Little or no detectable change
Increase the proportion of smoke-free homes — TU‑18
Improving
Reduce the proportion of people who don't smoke but are exposed to secondhand smoke — TU‑19
Little or no detectable change
Eliminate policies in states, territories, and DC that preempt local tobacco control policies — TU‑20
Little or no detectable change
Increase the proportion of worksites with policies that ban indoor smoking — ECBP‑D06
Developmental
Increase the number of states, territories, and DC that prohibit smoking in multiunit housing — TU‑R01
Research

Suggested Citation

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Guide to Community Preventive Services. (2012). Tobacco Use: Smoke-Free Policies. Retrieved from https://www.thecommunityguide.org/findings/tobacco-use-smoke-free-policies