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Annotation: This site provides access to a June 19, 2008 webcast that highlights national, state, and local initiatives that address tobacco use and exposure and the health of MCH populations. Systems level approaches to smoking cessation among pregnant and parenting women, as well as the connection between environmental tobacco smoke and infant health were discussed. [Funded by the Maternal and Child Health Bureau]

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Keywords: Child health, Environmental exposure, Infant health, Local initiatives, National initiatives, Passive smoking, Pregnant women, Prenatal care, Prevention, Smoking cessation, Smoking during pregnancy, State initiatives, Tobacco use

Annotation: This report provides a glimpse into ways that WISEWOMAN projects are helping low-income women throughout the United States stop using tobacco products and lower their risk for cardiovascular disease. The report is intended for those working to promote the health of low-income women and can be used to gain support for successful efforts, to make women aware of the benefits of programs, and to complement other sources of information. The report includes general information about the WISEWOMAN program as well as the success stories themselves. The success stories are grouped into the following categories: (1) empowering and motivating women, (2) expanding staff capacity, (3) giving access to counseling and medication, (4) responding to women's needs, and (5) building partnerships. Two appendices are included: (1) writing your own success stories and (2) resources.

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Keywords: Cardiovascular diseases, Community programs, Federal initiatives, Low income groups, Smoking cessation, Tobacco use, Women's health

Annotation: This guide outlines the elements of a comprehensive tobacco-control program, discusses issues that should be considered when making decisions, presents the most promising types of interventions, and provides guidance on evaluation activities. Chapter 1 discusses the health consequences of tobacco use for adolescents (ages 12-19). Chapter 2 outlines important issues that should be considered when deciding whether to establish an adolescent tobacco-use cessation intervention. Chapter 3 presents information about different types of interventions, different methods of intervention, and a potentially promising theoretical approach. Chapter 4 discusses differences among adolescents that may affect reasons for and patterns of tobacco use and cessation. Chapter 5 provides guidance for conducting process and outcome evaluations. At the end of each chapter, two examples show how one state health department and one rural county school system chose and implemented a tobacco-cessation intervention. The appendix lists additional resources on adolescent tobacco-use cessation interventions and evaluation guidelines.

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Keywords: Adolescent health, Community programs, Evaluation, Intervention, Manuals, School health education, Smoking, Smoking cessation, Tobacco use

Annotation: This report primarily comprises tables and figures that present information from national surveys and studies on morbidity and mortality due to tobacco use in the United States. The report focuses primarily on cigarettes, but statistical information on other tobacco products is also included, and environmental tobacco smoke is discussed. The report begins with text discussing the following topics: mortality, consumption, prevalence of cigarette use among adults, prevalence of other tobacco products among adults, marijuana, prevalence of cigarette use among adolescents, smoking during pregnancy, prevalence of smoking cessation among adults, prevalence of smoking cessation among adolescents, tobacco advertising and promotion, state laws on smoking, environmental tobacco smoke, and international cigarette smoking prevalence. Footnotes are included. The text is followed by tables and figures.

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Keywords: Adolescent behavior, Adolescent health, Adults, Advertising, Marijuana, Morbidity, Mortality, Passive smoking, Smokeless tobacco, Smoking, Smoking cessation, Smoking during pregnancy, State legislation, Statistical data, Tobacco use, Trends

Annotation: This issue brief reflects lessons learned from a meeting of agricultural and health leaders from 10 tobacco-growing states to share progress and best practices in preventing youth tobacco use while advancing agriculture and economic development. The brief discusses challenges for tobacco-growing states, establishing agricultural development foundations, implementing agricultural and economic development activities, and conducting tobacco prevention and cessation programs. Statistical information is presented in one table within the paper. The brief concludes with endnotes.

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Keywords: Adolescent behavior, Child behavior, Prevention, Prevention programs, Smoking, Smoking cessation, State programs, Tobacco, Tobacco use

Annotation: This report outlines a series of feasible, science-based action steps to promote tobacco cessation. Topics include rationale, costs of tobacco use and the need for action, establishment of the Subcommittee on Cessation of the Interagency Committee on Smoking and Health, targeted features of a national action plan for tobacco cessation, plan elements, federal initiatives, and public private partnerships. A bibliography is included.

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Keywords: Community action, Federal initiatives, Health promotion, Interagency cooperation, Public private partnerships, Smoking cessation, Smoking during pregnancy, Strategic plans, Tobacco use

Annotation: This report reviews what is known about smoking-related diseases among women, the toll of smoking on women's health, efforts to prevent initiation of smoking by girls, and the promotion of cessation among all female smokers. The report covers four major topics: (1) patterns of tobacco use among women and girls; (2) health consequences of tobacco use among women; (3) factors influencing tobacco use among women; and (4) efforts to reduce tobacco use among women. The final section discusses future visions for reducing smoking through increased awareness of women's specific health risks, anti-tobacco advocacy, and global issues. Each section concludes with references and a list of abbreviations, tables and figures, and an index conclude the report. Statistical data are provided in table, chart, and graph formats throughout the report.

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Keywords: Federal initiatives, Health behavior, Passive smoking, Research, Risk taking, Smoking, Smoking cessation, Smoking during pregnancy, Tobacco use, Women's health

Annotation: This guide was written to be used by health professionals, but it can be used by others. The guide was written for use in low income countries to give an overview of the way tobacco control and prevention are evolving throughout the world. An implementation framework, with an emphasis on structure, management, and evaluation of cessation interventions with patients, is provided. Other areas covered include a framework for assessing tobacco use and its consequences in the population, assessing legislation and needs for advocacy, and developing and assessing prevention programs.

Keywords: Developing countries, Legislation, Low income groups, Prevention programs, Smoking cessation, Tobacco use

Annotation: This poster announces a presentation about National Child Health Day in 1997, listing time, place, and speakers. [Funded by the Maternal and Child Health Bureau]

Keywords: Adolescent health, Child Health Day, Health observances, Posters, Smokeless tobacco, Smoking, Smoking cessation, Tobacco use

Annotation: This book provides a guide toward developing tobacco and smokeless tobacco use prevention and cessation programs in schools. It reviews the foundations of such programs, looks at the prevention and cessation components of a present current program (Project TNT), presents a possible curriculum for such a program, and looks toward the future of such programs. Appendices include a more in-depth look at some components of Project TNT.

Keywords: Adolescent health promotion, Prevention programs, Program development, Risk prevention, School health education, Smokeless tobacco, Smoking, Smoking cessation

Annotation: This volume provides a summary of what has been learned over nearly 40 years of the public health effort against smoking, from the early trial-and-error health information campaigns of the 1960's to the National Cancer Institute's science-based ASSIST project (the American Stop Smoking Intervention Study for Cancer Prevention), which began in the fall of 1991. It presents an historical accounting of these efforts as well as the reason why comprehensive smoking control strategies are now needed to address the smoker's total environment and reduce smoking prevalence significantly over the next decade. Chapters cover the scientific rationale for comprehensive, community-based, smoking control strategies, evolution of smoking control strategies, smoking prevalence and lung cancer death rates, approaches directed to the individual and to the social environment, and interdependence and synergy among smoking control activities.

Keywords: Disease prevention, Health promotion, Smoking, Smoking cessation, Tobacco

Annotation: This report focuses on how states have spent funds from the November 1998 tobacco settlement agreement, under which the nation's major tobacco companies have been making annual payments to states. The report presents key findings, tables, graphs, maps, and state-by-state data.

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Keywords: Financing, Legislation, Prevention, Smoking, Smoking cessation programs, State programs, Statistical data, Tobacco use

Annotation: This website describes the health risks associated with the use of tobacco by young people and provides estimates on the percentage of middle school and high school students who use tobacco by type (e-cigarettes, cigaretttes, cigars, smokeless tobacco, Hookah, Nicotine pouches, heated tobacco products, and/or pipe tobacco). The site also outlines various factors associated with youth tobacco product use and lists national, state, and local activities that have been shown to reduce the number of adolescent tobacco users.

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Keywords: Adolescent health, High school students, Initiatives, Prevention, Smoking cessation, Statistics, Tobacco use, Youth