This category focuses on public policy issues related to tobacco. These issues include, but are not limited to:
- Advertising,
- Smoke-free areas,
- Taxation,
- Activism and lobbying,
- Prevention of tobacco use,
- Promotion of tobacco use,
- Media coverage of issues,
- Economic considerations, and
- Smuggling.
Sites not listed in this category:
Sub Directory
Advocacy
Economic Impact
Government
Industry Critiques
Master Settlement Agreement
Media
Secondhand Smoke
Smuggling
Tobacco Industry Documents
Relate Directory
Consumer Goods and Services / Tobacco
Substance Abuse / Tobacco
Specific Substances / Tobacco
Women's Health / Smoking
Recreation / Tobacco
Field Crops / Tobacco
Shopping / Tobacco
Alias Directory
Product Liability
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Addressing Tobacco In Managed Care
Set of research articles on how and why tobacco use is a priority in managed care, and what can be done about it.
FindLaw Legal News: Tobacco
Updates on tobacco law from international to local, tobacco ligitation updates, and tobacco industry documents that feature in tobacco law.
Report and Recommendations of the Ad Hoc Advisory Committee on Tobacco Investments
University of Michigan considers whether to own tobacco stock; a report of the committee appointed to study the question.
Tobacco Legal and Policy Issues
Papers on state laws on tobacco control, preemptive state tobacco laws, attitudes towards smoking in different states, effectiveness of tobacco control programs, and MMWR reports.
AMWA Position Paper: Tobacco Control and Prevention
The American Medical Women's Association outlines its stand and proposed policy initiatives.
The Effect of Tobacco Advertising Bans on Tobacco Consumption
Paper in the Journal of Health Economics; concludes that comprehensive bans reduce consumption, limited bans have little or no effect.
Anti-Tobacco Measures Prevent Cancer
California's tough anti-smoking measures and public health campaigns have resulted in a 14% decrease in lung cancer.
Corpwatch - Tobacco, Free Trade and Globalization
Articles addressing how restricting tobacco is getting harder to do as the world drops trade restrictions and economies become intertwined.
Addressing Tobacco in Managed Care
Tobacco use reduction conferences, papers, research results, and best practices of interest to health plans; health effects; secondhand smoke; effectivess of media campaigns; effectiveness of quit smoking methods.
Web Search
North Dakota Health Dept. - Division of Tobacco Prevention & Control
URL : www.ndhealth.gov/tobacco
Division of Tobacco Prevention and Control Community Health Section. Contact Us ... Our Goal is to reduce disease, disability and death related to tobacco use by: ...[2008/11/07]
Health effects of tobacco - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
URL : en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_effects_of_tobacco
Major health effects of smoking, the most common use of tobacco, include an ... The World Health Organization estimate that tobacco caused 5.4 million deaths in ...[2008/11/25]
Tobacco Use Prevention - DASH/HealthyYouth
URL : www.cdc.gov/HealthyYouth/tobacco/index.htm
Tobacco Use and the Health ... See School Health Guidelines: Tobacco Use for strategies ... health education to address tobacco use and other health ...[2008/11/20]
The History of Tobacco
URL : academic.udayton.edu/health/syllabi/tobacco/history.htm
In this he claimed that tobacco could cure 36 health problems. ... Although the tobacco industry denied such health hazards, they promoted new ...[2001/12/15]
CDC: Tobacco Information & Prevention Sourcepage
URL : www.cdc.gov/tobacco
Contains tobacco-related news, research, smoking cessation information, ... 14th World Conference on Tobacco or Health. March 8–12, 2009. Mumbai, India ...[2008/11/15]
Tobacco Prevention & Control
URL : www.srhd.org/health/tobacco/default.asp
The Health District's Tobacco Prevention & Control Program works with schools, ... Washington State Department of Health's Tobacco Prevention and Control Program, ...[2008/11/02]
WHO | Tobacco
URL : www.who.int/health_topics/tobacco/en
Tobacco key facts ... Fact files on tobacco. RELATED TOPICS - Chronic diseases and health promotion - Cancer: prevention and tobacco ...[2008/10/28]
WHO: The Tobacco Atlas
URL : www.who.int/tobacco/statistics/tobacco_atlas/en
History of tobacco, types of use, male and female smoking, youth, cigarette consumption, health effects, secondhand smoke, deaths, costs; the trade, the industry, ...[2008/11/10]
City of Long Beach, CA - Tobacco Education/Health Promotion
URL : www.longbeach.gov/health/fhec/tep.asp
Tobacco Retailers. Effective January 1, 2008, California Health and Safety ... Drifting tobacco smoke is a health hazard especially to children and infants. ...[2008/11/20]
WHO/WPRO-Overview
URL : www.wpro.who.int/health_topics/tobacco
Health topics. Tobacco. Fact sheets. News and press releases. Relevant publications and documents ... sources. Media centre. Home " Health topics " Tobacco ...[2008/11/22]
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