E-cigarettes are the most commonly used tobacco product among youth in the United States. A comprehensive approach to reduce youth initiation of e-cigarette use and population exposure to e-cigarette aerosol...… Read More

NACCHO developed this guide to assist local public health agencies (LPHAs) and their partners with the implementation of NACCHO’s Program and Funding Guidelines for Comprehensive Local Tobacco Control Programs and...… Read More

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Office on Smoking and Health offers a variety of useful resources that discuss the rates of tobacco use in the United States as well...… Read More

The Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency database of program on Alcohol, tobacco, and drug use, Delinquency/violence prevention, Sexual activity/exploitation and Mental health.… Read More

SOPHE recognizes that 35% of high school youth currently smoke cigarettes; each day, 3,000 kids become regular smokers, and one-third will eventually die from tobacco-related disease; and the rate of...… Read More

Six priority risk behaviors- tobacco use; unhealthy dietary behaviors; inadequate physical activity; alcohol and other drug use; sexual behaviors that contribute to unintended pregnancy and sexually transmitted disease, including HIV...… Read More

Cigarette smoking remains the leading cause of preventable death in the United States, resulting in an estimated 443,000 premature deaths and $193 billion in direct healthcare costs and lost productivity...… Read More

On January 11, 1964, at a time when 46% of American adults smoked cigarettes, the United States Surgeon General Dr. Terry L. Luther courageously released the first report naming smoking...… Read More

In 2007, electronic cigarettes and other electronic nicotine delivery systems (ENDS) entered the worldwide market as devices that do not burn or use tobacco leaves but instead vaporize a solution...… Read More