A new CDC report released today provides a guide to each of the 50 states and the District of Columbia for planning and implementing a comprehensive tobacco control program. The CDC’s Best Practices for Comprehensive Tobacco Control Programs - 2014 describes an integrated programmatic structure for implementing interventions proven to be effective and provides levels of state investment to prevent and reduce tobacco use in each state.
The Best Practices guide provides specific recommendations for what each state should spend per year on a comprehensive tobacco control program that includes state and community, mass-reach health communication, and cessation interventions, as well as surveillance and evaluation activities, and infrastructure, administration, and management efforts.
The Surgeon General’s Report released just two weeks ago revealed that comprehensive tobacco control efforts have averted at least 8 million early deaths since 1965, but that these evidence-based tobacco control interventions continue to be underutilized.
This is the first update to the Best Practices guide since 2007. It reflects new scientific literature, shifts in state populations and smoking rates, and changes to the tobacco control landscape since 2007. The guide also includes enhanced information on activities to eliminate tobacco-related disparities.
“We have the resources to greatly reduce the death and disease caused by tobacco use,” said Tim McAfee, MD MPH, Director of the Office on Smoking and Health. “This updated Best Practices guide gives states a great road map for the design and implementation of an effective tobacco control program. It explains the components and budget recommendations that are necessary to achieve a comprehensive tobacco control program, and also provides references and resources to assist with maintaining and sustaining such programs. ”
A comprehensive statewide tobacco control program is a coordinated effort to establish comprehensive smoke-free policies and social norms, promote and help tobacco users to quit, and prevent non-users from starting. Evidence-based, statewide tobacco control programs that are comprehensive, sustained, and accountable have been shown to reduce smoking rates and tobacco-related deaths and diseases.
To access the Best Practices guide, visit www.cdc.gov/tobacco, and for additional state-specific tobacco-related data, visit CDC's State Tobacco Activities Tracking and Evaluation System athttp://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/statesystem.
The Surgeon General’s Report released just two weeks ago revealed that comprehensive tobacco control efforts have averted at least 8 million early deaths since 1965, but that these evidence-based tobacco control interventions continue to be underutilized.
This is the first update to the Best Practices guide since 2007. It reflects new scientific literature, shifts in state populations and smoking rates, and changes to the tobacco control landscape since 2007. The guide also includes enhanced information on activities to eliminate tobacco-related disparities.
“We have the resources to greatly reduce the death and disease caused by tobacco use,” said Tim McAfee, MD MPH, Director of the Office on Smoking and Health. “This updated Best Practices guide gives states a great road map for the design and implementation of an effective tobacco control program. It explains the components and budget recommendations that are necessary to achieve a comprehensive tobacco control program, and also provides references and resources to assist with maintaining and sustaining such programs. ”
A comprehensive statewide tobacco control program is a coordinated effort to establish comprehensive smoke-free policies and social norms, promote and help tobacco users to quit, and prevent non-users from starting. Evidence-based, statewide tobacco control programs that are comprehensive, sustained, and accountable have been shown to reduce smoking rates and tobacco-related deaths and diseases.
To access the Best Practices guide, visit www.cdc.gov/tobacco, and for additional state-specific tobacco-related data, visit CDC's State Tobacco Activities Tracking and Evaluation System athttp://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/statesystem.
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