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

Tobacco Use: Comprehensive Tobacco Control Programs

About this resource:

Systematic Review

Source: The Guide to Community Preventive Services

Last Reviewed: August 2014

Workgroups: Tobacco Use Workgroup

The Community Preventive Services Task Force (CPSTF) recommends comprehensive tobacco control programs to reduce people’s tobacco use and exposure to secondhand smoke. These programs are typically coordinated efforts at the population level to:

  • Reduce people’s interest in using tobacco 
  • Increase tobacco use quit rates
  • Reduce secondhand smoke exposure
  • Prevent young people from starting to use tobacco

CPSTF found that evidence indicates that these programs reduce tobacco use in adults and young people, increase quit rates, and help reduce diseases and deaths related to tobacco.

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Objectives related to this resource (13)

Reduce current tobacco use in adults — TU‑01
Improving
Reduce current cigarette smoking in adults — TU‑02
LHI label
Improving
Reduce current cigarette, cigar, and pipe smoking in adults — TU‑03
Improving
Reduce current tobacco use in adolescents — TU‑04
LHI label
Getting worse
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 smokeless tobacco products among adolescents — TU‑08
Target met or exceeded
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 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
Eliminate policies in states, territories, and DC that preempt local tobacco control policies — TU‑20
Little or no detectable change

Suggested Citation

1.

Guide to Community Preventive Services. (2014). Tobacco Use: Comprehensive Tobacco Control Programs. Retrieved from https://www.thecommunityguide.org/findings/tobacco-use-comprehensive-tobacco-control-programs