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The systematic reviews by the Guide to Community Preventive Services (Community Guide) of the effectiveness of interventions to reduce or prevent tobacco use focused on three areas:

  1. Preventing tobacco product use initiation
  2. Increasing cessation
  3. Reducing exposure to environmental tobacco smoke (ETS)
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Interventions section
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Task Force Findings
Recommended Intervention
Recommended
Intervention with Insufficient Evidence of Effectiveness
Insufficient Evidence
Intervention Not Recommended
Recommend Against
Program Legend:
Sample program
Sample Evidence-Based Program(s).
This symbol represents a link to example programs representing the type of intervention reviewed.

Reducing Tobacco Use Initiation
Increasing the unit price for tobacco
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Recommended Intervention
  Mass media education campaigns when combined with other interventions
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Recommended Intervention
  Restricting minors’ access to tobacco products:
  Community mobilization when combined with additional interventions (stronger local laws directed at retailers, active enforcement of retailer sales laws, retailer education with reinforcement)  
Recommended Intervention
  Restricting minors’ access to tobacco products: sales laws directed at tobacco retailers to reduce illegal sales to minors, when implemented alone  
Intervention with Insufficient Evidence of Effectiveness
  Laws directed at minors’ purchase, possession, or use of tobacco products, when implemented alone  
Intervention with Insufficient Evidence of Effectiveness
  Active enforcement of sales laws directed at retailers, when implemented alone  
Intervention with Insufficient Evidence of Effectiveness
  Retailer education with reinforcement and information on health consequences, when implemented alone  
Intervention with Insufficient Evidence of Effectiveness
  Retailer education without reinforcement, when implemented alone  
Intervention with Insufficient Evidence of Effectiveness
  Community education about minors’ access to tobacco products, when implemented alone  
Intervention with Insufficient Evidence of Effectiveness
Increasing Tobacco Use Cessation
Increasing the unit price for tobacco products
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Recommended Intervention
  Reducing client out-of-pocket costs for effective cessation therapies
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Recommended Intervention
  Multicomponent interventions that include client telephone support
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Recommended Intervention
 
  Mass media education campaigns combined with other interventions
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Recommended Intervention
  Mass media education–cessation series
Intervention with Insufficient Evidence of Effectiveness
  Mass media education–cessation contests
Intervention with Insufficient Evidence of Effectiveness
  Healthcare provider reminder systems
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Recommended Intervention
 
Sample Program link

  Healthcare provider reminder systems with provider education, with or without client education
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Recommended Intervention
 
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  Provider education systems alone
Intervention with Insufficient Evidence of Effectiveness
  Healthcare provider feedback and assessment
Intervention with Insufficient Evidence of Effectiveness
Reducing Environmental Tobacco Smoke
Smoking bans and restrictions
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Recommended Intervention
 
Sample Program link

  Community education to reduce exposure to environmental tobacco smoke in the home  
Intervention with Insufficient Evidence of Effectiveness
     
Research questions suggested for further study    


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Publications section

Full Reports (recommendations & supporting evidence)  
Recommendations. MMWR. 2000: 49 (No. RR-12);1-11. (with interventions table)
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  Recommendations. AJPM. 2001: 20 (2S); 10-15.
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  Evidence Review. AJPM. 2001: 20 (2S); 16-66.
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  Guidelines Comparison. AJPM. 2001: 20 (2S); 67-87.
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Commentaries  
Note from the Surgeon General. AJPM. 2001: 20 (2S); 1-1.
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  Tobacco Control Policy: From Action to Evidence and Back Again. AJPM. 2001: 20 (2S); 2-5
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  Community- Level Interventions: Perspective of Managed Care. AJPM. 2001: 20 (2S); 6-7.
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  State & Local Opportunities for Tobacco Use Reduction.
AJPM. 2001: 20 (2S); 8-9.
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Related Publications  
Effects of Smoking Restrictions in the Workplace. Brownson, RC, Hopkins, DP, Wakefield, MA. Annu. Rev. Public Health. 2002. 23:333-48.  

 

Additional Resources section

Evidence Tables (tables of studies reviewed by intervention)
  Effect of smoking bans and restrictions on ETS
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  Effect of smoking bans and restrictions on behaviors
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  Review team members  
  Candidate studies  
     
Slide Sets  
  Tobacco (Community Guide review)  

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Sample citation:Tobacco. Guide to Community Preventive Services Website. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. www.thecommunityguide.org/tobacco/. Last updated: 06/14/2005. Accessed on: 10/21/2005.

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