Navigation, Contact Info, and Legend for the OSH Website
• View By Topic
• Quick Links
Contact Info
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion
Office on Smoking and Health
Tel: 1-800-CDC-INFO
(1-800-232-4636)
TTY: 1-888-232-6348
E-mail: tobaccoinfo@cdc.gov
Legend
= Link to a PDF document
(Adobe Acrobat™ Reader needs to be installed on your computer in order to read PDF documents.)
Download the Reader
= Link to nonfederal Web site
Disclaimer on nonfederal Web sites
Interagency Committee on Smoking and Health
Meeting Summary: February 11, 2003
National Action Plan for Tobacco Cessation
ICSH Committee Discussion and Vote
Committee members discussed the Action Plan and comments are summarized below:
- Include reference to support of international research efforts
- Clinicians should be trained in cessation and prevention interventions
- Importance of evaluating and monitoring trends
- Recognition of the special needs of those who are uninsured
- Importance of recognizing that "one size does not fit all"—particularly for Native
American populations with high rates of tobacco use (ceremonial and otherwise) which may not
have access to many of the recommendations included in the Action Plan i.e. quitline, media
campaign, etc)
- Importance of a broad-based research agenda
- Suggestion that Surgeon General Carmona take a visible role in getting the cessation message
to the public
- The Action Plan emphasizes the importance of public-private partnerships in cessation
efforts
- Efforts to train clinicians in brief cessation interventions are important, given
increasingly shorter visits between physician and patient
- Although there is still a great need for additional cessation intervention research, it is
also important that the information we do know is more effectively put into practice
Vote
The Committee unanimously agreed to take the National Action Plan for Tobacco Cessation
forward to Secretary Thompson (The Committee's vote does not imply agency endorsement or
approval of the recommendations).
The meeting adjourned at 3:00 p.m.
Page last modified 04/25/2008