This 2011 SAMHSA Report presents findings on compliance of the Synar Amendment aimed at decreasing youth access to tobacco. Reviews progress in enforcing State youth tobacco access laws and in reducing the percentage of retailers selling tobacco products to minors.
Although manufactured cigarettes account for 96% of worldwide sales, tobacco use can take many forms and varies by country. This page provides resources with information on annual consumption and other tobacco products such as hookah and smokeless tobacco. This page also includes a subsection highlighting novel nicotine products and their perceived harm reduction.
Youth tobacco use is a global concern. This page provides information about youth tobacco use as well as attitudes, beliefs, behaviors and health impacts related to tobacco use among youth.
One billion adults worldwide smoke cigarettes. Reports and data sources on this page provide information on prevalence rates, smoking trends, and social norms related to tobacco use for adults.
Edward Bernays worked as a publicist for the American Tobacco Company and lead the movement of marketing cigarettes to women as “torches of freedom”.
The Asian Smokers’ Quitline is a free nationwide Asian-language quit smoking service operated by the Moores Cancer Center at the University of California, San Diego. The Quitline offers self-help materials, one-on-one telephone counseling to quit smoking, and a free two-week starter kit of nicotine patches.
The Women, Tobacco, and Cancer Working Group was formed to respond to the priorities identified in these and other plans and reports. The group focused on identifying ways to stimulate scientific research and suggesting approaches to translate knowledge into interventions to prevent tobacco-related cancers in women in the United States and other countries.
This 2011 report from the WHO discusses the problem of smoking in movies and recommended policy options to protect young people from exposure to smoking in movies.
The National Adult Tobacco Survey (NATS) was created to assess the prevalence of tobacco use, as well as the factors promoting and impeding tobacco use among adults. NATS also establishes a comprehensive framework for evaluating both the national and state-specific tobacco control programs. The NATS questionnaire is built around the Office of Smoking and Health’s Key Outcome Indicators (KOI) from each of the following four goal areas: preventing initiation of tobacco use among young people, eliminating nonsmokers’ exposure to secondhand smoke, promoting quitting among adults and young people, and identifying and eliminating tobacco-related disparities.
The NYTS was designed to provide national data on long-term, intermediate, and short-term indicators key to the design, implementation, and evaluation of comprehensive tobacco prevention and control programs. The NYTS provides nationally representative data about middle and high school youth’s tobacco-related beliefs, attitudes, behaviors, and exposure to pro-and anti-tobacco influences.
The Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System (YRBSS) monitors six types of health-risk behaviors that contribute to the leading causes of death and disability among youth and adults, including tobacco.
The Youth Tobacco Survey collects data from 6th to 12th grade students. The YTS measures the following components: knowledge and attitudes regarding tobacco use, exposure to media and advertising, information on the enforcement of minors’ access regulations and laws, presence of tobacco programs in school curricula, cessation attempts and successes, secondhand smoke exposure, and prevalence of other tobacco products (i.e., pipe use, bidis, kreteks, and snus).
The Frank Statement was a historic ad run by the major American tobacco companies in 1954 that marked the beginning of a long legacy of misinformation about the health effects of smoking.
