Smoking and Tobacco
Guidelines and Recommendations

Below are selected prevention and treatment guidelines, recommendations, frameworks, approaches, and other documents related to smoking and tobacco. Also see related links on this page.

The Health Consequences of Smoking: 2004 Report of the Surgeon General (5/30/04)
http://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/sgr/sgr_2004/
This report identifies a substantial number of diseases found to be caused by smoking that were not previously causally associated with smoking: cancers of the stomach, uterine cervix, pancreas, and kidney; acute myeloid leukemia; pneumonia; abdominal aortic aneurysm; cataract; and periodontitis. The report concludes that smoking reduces the overall health of smokers, contributing to such conditions as hip fractures, complications from diabetes, increased wound infections following surgery, and a wide range of reproductive complications.

Taking Action Against Secondhand Smoke: An Online Toolkit (2003)
http://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/ETS_Toolkit/index.htm
The information provided will guide your efforts to eliminate smoking in all enclosed public facilities. This will help you get started on establishing a clean air policy for public places in your community. Also available are tools, best practices, and a long list of additional resources.

Women and Smoking: A Report of the Surgeon General (2001)
This report summarizes patterns of tobacco use among women, factors associated with starting and continuing to smoke, the health consequences of smoking, tobacco marketing targeted at women, and cessation and prevention interventions.

Reducing Tobacco Use: A Report of the Surgeon General (2000)
http://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/sgr_tobacco_use.htm
Tobacco use, particularly smoking, remains the number one cause of preventable disease and death in the United States. This report of the Surgeon General on smoking and health is the first to offer a composite review of the various methods used to reduce and prevent tobacco use. This report evaluates each of five major approaches to reducing tobacco use: educational, clinical, regulatory, economic, and comprehensive. Further, the report attempts to place the approaches in the larger context of tobacco control, providing a vision for the future of tobacco use prevention and control based on these available tools. The report is clear in its overriding conclusion: Although our knowledge about tobacco control remains imperfect, we know more than enough to act now.

Strategies for Reducing Exposure to Environmental Tobacco Smoke, Increasing Tobacco-Use Cessation, and Reducing Initiation in Communities and Health-Care Systems (2000)
http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/rr4912a1.htm
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http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/PDF/rr/rr4912.pdf
Reducing tobacco-related morbidity and death is an ongoing challenge for health-care providers, health-care systems, and public health programs. Interventions are available that a) reduce exposure to environmental tobacco smoke, b) reduce tobacco-use initiation, and c) increase tobacco-use cessation. The Task Force on Community Preventive Services has conducted systematic reviews on 14 selected interventions, which are appropriate for communities and health-care systems, and has made recommendations regarding use of these interventions. This report summarizes the recommendations, identifies sources that offer full reviews of the interventions and details about applying the interventions locally, and provides an update of the Task Force's work.

Best Practices for Comprehensive Tobacco Control Programs: Executive Summary (1999)
http://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/research_data/stat_nat_data/bestprac-execsummay.htm
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http://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/research_data/stat_nat_data/bestprac-dwnld.htm
Fact Sheet
http://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/research_data/stat_nat_data/bpfactsheet.htm
CDC's Best Practices for Comprehensive Tobacco Control Programs is an evidence-based guide to help States plan and establish effective tobacco control programs to prevent and reduce tobacco use. The book identifies and describes the key elements for effective state tobacco control programs, including programs designed for communities, schools, and the entire State. Best Practices also addresses the significance of cessation programs, counter-marketing, enforcement, surveillance and evaluation, and chronic disease programs to reduce the burden of tobacco-related diseases. Tobacco control program funding models for all 50 States and the District of Columbia are included.

Related Links

Smoking and Tobacco: Women’s Health Topics A-Z
http://www.cdc.gov/women/az/smoking.htm

Guide to Community Preventive Services
http://www.cdc.gov/epo/communityguide.htm

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