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- Natives and Tobacco
- Smoking Control
- Specific Populations: Tobacco use
- Children at Greater Risk for Diabetes
- Surgeon General: cessation guideline
- Cigarette smoking, 1999
- Smoking during pregnancy
- TV ads counter smoking
- Cigarettes: #1 cause, preventable death
- Tobacco Use and Dependence
- Putting Science into Practice
- Tobacco education
Drugs
Health Behaviors of American Indians and Alaska Natives, 1997-2000
- Cigarette smoking, awareness of diabetes, binge drinking, drinking / driving and
others
Surgeon General's Advisory on Alcohol Use in Pregnancy
- February 2005, the Surgeon General issued an Advisory on Alcohol Use in pregnancy.
- Fetal Alcohol Syndrome curricula available for patient education
Defining the National Agenda for Fetal Alcohol Syndrome
- And Other Prenatal Alcohol-Related Effect
Fetal Alcohol Syndrome FAS Prevention
- CDC strategy to enhance FAS prevention
High School Students in Bureau of Indian Affairs-Funded Schools
Alcohol Use Among Women of Childbearing Age - United States, 1991-1999
- Prenatal exposure to alcohol is one of the leading preventable causes of birth defects and mental retardation
Club drugs: Spotlight
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Office of National Drug Control Policy
Tobacco
State-Specific Prevalence of Smoking and Quiting Among Adults
Cigarette Smoking in the US, 2004
WISEWOMAN Works Vol 2
- A collection of success stories on empowering women to STOP SMOKING (PDF)
Tobacco Cessation Chart Form: Five A's
Ask, Advise, Assess, Assist, Arrange (PDF 18k)
Putting Science into Practice
AHRQ Director Carolyn M. Clancy, page 8
Smoke
Free Families
AHA: Active and Passive Tobacco Exposure
Current Cigarette Smoking Among Adults
State-Specific Prevalence of Current Cigarette Smoking Among Adults, and Policies
and Attitudes About Secondhand Smoke-United States, 2000 CDC analyzed data from
the 2000 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance
System. HTML or PDF
Cigarette Smoking Behavior of Adults: United States, 1997-98
- National estimates for lifetime and current cigarette smoking status
Annual Smoking-Attributable Mortality, Years of Potential Life Lost, and Economic Costs - United States, 1995-1999 Intro: Cigarette smoking is the leading cause of preventable death in the US and produces huge economic costs
A Community Toolkit for Reducing Tobacco Use Among Women
- The purpose of this toolkit is to apply what we have learned about why girls start smoking, what keeps women smoking, and what it takes to quit. This toolkit includes suggestions and ideas in the form of presentations, programs, media outreach, and other activities
Children of Moms who Smoked During Pregnancy at Greater Risk for Diabetes
- Montgomery SM ,Ekbom A. Smoking during pregnancy and diabetes mellitus in a British longitudinal birth cohort. BMJ 2002;324:26-27
American Indians and Alaska Natives (AI / AN) and Tobacco
CDC reports that lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer death among AI / AN and other trends
Specific Populations: Tobacco use
Multiple CDC and other links on smoking in specific population
Cigarette Smoking Among Adults-United States, 1999
This C.D.C. report is available on a Web page (HTML) and as an Acrobat Reader (.PDF) download file.
Smoking During Pregnancy in the 1990s
The rate of smoking during pregnancy dropped 33 percent between 1990 and 1999, so that in 1999 just over 12 percent of all women reported smoking during their pregnancies.
Press release - on-line | Full report - Acrobat Reader (.PDF) file, 732K
Second Hand Smoke; Taking Action Against Secondhand Smoke
Secondhand Smoke Exposure Among Middle and High School Students
TV Counter-Advertisements on Smoking
CDC announces the availability of two new TV spots for use in health promotion and counter-advertising campaigns, featuring Jeremy London. More on-line. More info on-line.
Surgeon General names cigarettes as the #1 cause of preventable death in women
Surgeon General names cigarettes as the #1 cause of preventable death in women Cigarette smoking, the leading cause of preventable death, causes more than 400,000 death annually. Full report on-line.
Tobacco education
American Lung Association
Arizona Smokers Helpline
Quit All Together (Quitnet)
C.D.C. Tobacco Information and Prevention Source (TIPS)
More tobacco links:
- Providers Partnership project, A.C.O.G. / H.R.S.A. / M.C.H.B.
- Good online sources for how to quit smoking
- Several more good links to online tobacco resources
- Risk reduction behaviors; tobacco
- Multiple Tobacco additions