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Cancer Trends Progress Report: Prevention
This section of the report focuses on factors that can affect a person's risk of getting cancer. Has information on adult and youth smoking, alcohol and fat consumption, certain chemicals in the environment, and other topics.
Tobacco Use
Information from the NCI's Risk Factor Monitoring and Methods Branch, which monitors tobacco use through the use of surveys of the U.S. household population.
Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System
The CDC's Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System, the world's largest telephone survey, tracks health risks in the United States. Information from the survey is searchable by topic.
MMWR Articles
A list of tobacco-related reports from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC's) Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR).
Targeting Tobacco Use: The Nation's Leading Cause of Preventable Death
Data on tobacco use and tobacco-related deaths and information on the efforts of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to reduce tobacco use.
American Cancer Society Cancer Facts, Figures, and Statistics
This section of the American Cancer Society's Web site offers cancer-related statistics and data on tobacco use.
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