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These 20-sheet notepads (5.5 by 4.25 inches) include the quit line number, 1-800-QUIT-NOW, and the CDC’s Tips From Former Smokers campaign website address, www.cdc.gov/tips, on each page. Health care providers, counselors, and other professionals can use these to write notes and instructions for smoking patients, who may want and need resources to help them quit smoking.

 

This downloadable sign can help government agencies, NGOs, and businesses communicate their tobacco-free campus policies to staff and visitors. Modeled after CDC’s new tobacco-free campus sign, this generic sign is offered as a resource to the broader tobacco control community. The signs clearly indicate the comprehensive scope of tobacco-free campus policies and include a supportive quit message.

This Executive Summary provides an overview of the full report of the Surgeon General and highlights the conclusions and findings. The report comprehensively reviews the public health issue of electronic cigarettes (e-cigarettes), and specifically, the impact of these products on youth and young adults in the United States. Although conventional cigarette smoking has declined markedly over the past several decades, there have been substantial increases in the use of emerging tobacco products, including the dramatic rise in e-cigarette use, among U.S. youth and young adults in recent years. The report focuses on the history, epidemiology, and health effects of e-cigarette use among youth and young adults; the companies involved with marketing...

This Surgeon General’s report comprehensively reviews the public health issue of electronic cigarettes (e-cigarettes), and specifically, the impact of these products on youth and young adults in the United States. Although conventional cigarette smoking has declined markedly over the past several decades, there have been substantial increases in the use of emerging tobacco products, including the dramatic rise in e-cigarette use, among U.S. youth and young adults in recent years. The report focuses on the history, epidemiology, and health effects of e-cigarette use among youth and young adults; the companies involved with marketing and promoting these products; and existing and proposed public health policies regarding the use of these products by youth and...

This user guide focuses on how comprehensive tobacco control programs can work to achieve health equity in tobacco prevention and control. It offers tobacco control program staff and partners information on how to work toward achieving health equity when planning, implementing, and enforcing tobacco control policies.

This publication paints an important picture of tobacco use and select tobacco control measures stipulated by the World Health Organization’s (WHO’s) Framework Convention on Tobacco Control. It discusses the Global Tobacco Surveillance System—the largest global public health surveillance system ever developed and maintained—which, over 15 years, has facilitated the development, implementation, and evaluation of tobacco control programs and policies in countries around the world. The GATS Atlas covers the 22 countries for which data had been publicly released by the end of 2013. It illustrates the dynamics of tobacco use and tobacco control policies in countries representing 3 billion of the 5 billion adult population worldwide...

To mark the 10th anniversary of the GTSS, this seminal atlas illustrates its findings as well as key data from WHO's Framework Convention on Tobacco Control and MPOWER. Vivid maps and graphics give shape and meaning to the statistics, and compare and contrast survey results between countries and regions, boys, girls, teachers, and health professions students.