Tobacco Links

Model Programs & Best Practices

The Community Guide
www.thecommunityguide.org/tobacco/default.htm

Description: The Community Guide, developed by a non-Federal Task Force on Community Preventive Services, offers leadership in the evaluation of community, population and health care system strategies to address a variety of public health and health promotion topics.

Information Available: A systematic review of the effectiveness of community-based tobacco interventions. The chosen programs fit within one of three areas of tobacco use prevention and control: 1) preventing tobacco product use initiation, 2) increasing cessation and 3) reducing exposure to environmental tobacco smoke (ETS).

National Governor's Association (NGA) Center for Best Practices
www.nga.org/portal/site/nga/menuitem.b14a675ba7f89cf9e8ebb856a11010a0

Description: The NGA Center for Best Practices tracks state efforts to prevent and control tobacco use. The Center provides research and analysis for states on emerging issues and state best practices.

Information Available: Latest documents and information regarding best practices in the prevention and control of tobacco use. Also features cancer information, mortality charts, legislative efforts, costs, demographics and state spending of tobacco settlement funds.

Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA)
nrepp.samhsa.gov/

Description: SAMHSA provides information on health problems related to the use and abuse of drugs and alcohol, substance abuse treatment, the mental health condition of the population and administers and evaluates Federal block grants to the states.

Information Available: SAMHSA’s National Registry of Evidence-based Programs and Practices (NREPP) is a searchable database of mental health and substance abuse interventions that have been reviewed and rated by independent reviewers.

Federal Government:

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC),
National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion,
Office on Smoking and Health (OSH)
www.cdc.gov/tobacco

Description: OSH handles responsibility for leading and coordinating strategic efforts aimed at preventing tobacco use among youth, promoting smoking cessation among youth and adults, protecting nonsmokers from environmental smoke (ETS) and eliminating tobacco-related health disparities.

Information Available: Basics on tobacco, CDC publications, research, data, statistics, Surgeon General's reports, guides for quitting, educational materials, Tobacco Control Program Guidelines and Data, best practices, state systems, CDC's Tobacco Free Sports Initiatives, campaigns, events, toolkits, tracking surveys and systems, TIPS for Youth program, tobacco industry documents, the Media Campaign Resource Center and tobacco ingredient reporting.

MEDLINEplus-Health Information
www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/drugabuse.html

Description: MEDLINEplus, sponsored by the National Library of Medicine, includes a vast amount of health information on over 600 diseases and conditions. The site offers authoritative, up to date and appropriate health information for both health professionals and consumers.

Information Available: Latest news concerning tobacco use and prevention, publications from the National Institutes of Health, general overviews, clinical trials, research, conditions and aspects associated with tobacco, law and policy, statistics, information on specific populations and links to related MEDLINE health topics.

Office of the Surgeon General
www.surgeongeneral.gov/tobacco

Description: The Office of the Surgeon General, under the direction of the Surgeon General, oversees the 6,000-member Commissioned Corps of the U.S. Public Health Service and provides support for the Surgeon General in the accomplishment of his other duties. The Office is part of the Office of Public Health and Science, Office of the Secretary and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

Information Available: Tobacco cessation guidelines, latest information, consumer materials, clinician materials, press releases, statements of the Surgeon General, fact sheets, publications and Reducing Tobacco Use: A Report of the Surgeon General.

Missouri Government:

Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services (DHSS),
Tobacco Use Prevention Program
www.dhss.mo.gov/SmokingAndTobacco/

Description: The DHSS Tobacco Use Prevention Program coordinates statewide tobacco use prevention initiatives. The staff provides technical support for community programs by identifying and encouraging the use of evidence-based strategies and providing professional development opportunities for coalitions and partners.

Information Available: Missouri's Comprehensive Tobacco Use Prevention Program Preliminary Strategic Plan 2003-2009, Clean Indoor Air handbook, newsletters, pamphlets, fact sheet concerning Missouri's Tobacco Excise Tax, statistics, the Health and Economic Burden of Tobacco Use in Missouri, tobacco use prevention logic models, survey results and the Tobacco-Free School law.

National Organizations:

Americans for Nonsmokers' Rights (ANR)
www.no-smoke.org

Description: ANR is a national lobbying organization dedicated to nonsmokers' rights, taking on the tobacco industry at all levels of government to protect nonsmokers from secondhand smoke and youth from tobacco addiction. ANR pursues an action-oriented program of policy and legislation.

Information Available: Action alerts; new/updated materials; news and research; calendar of events; tobacco industry tracking database; articles, guidelines and studies on secondhand smoke; "how to" on passing a clean indoor air ordinance; airport campaigns; ventilation issues; smoke-free ads; preemption and youth prevention.

Action on Smoking and Health (ASH)
www.ash.org

Description: ASH serves as the legal action arm of the nonsmoking community, bringing or joining in legal actions concerning smoking and advocating for the nonsmoker. The organization also serves as an advocate of the nonsmokers' rights movement.

Information Available: Tobacco links, toxins in tobacco smoke, class action law suits, facts and statistics, children and smoking, mothers and smoking, latest news and studies, quitting guidelines and Congress and governmental news items.

Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids
www.tobaccofreekids.org

Description: The Campaign, one of the nation's largest non-governmental initiatives ever launched, works to protect children from tobacco addiction and exposure to secondhand smoke.

Information Available: Special reports, state specific tobacco/smoking data, taxes on cigarettes, tobacco ad gallery, research findings, fact sheets, youth action, federal and state initiatives, state allocation of tobacco settlement dollars (www.tobaccofreekids.org/reports/settlements/2006/fullreport.pdf), tobacco news and latest news releases.