Tobacco: Community Action
A supportive environment helps healthy behaviors take hold.  The following articles  discuss how changes in the broader community can help people and places become, and stay, smoke-free.

Community Action: Reducing tobacco use
Useful guide that helps people make changes in their community that support healthy behaviors.

Local policy approaches to tobacco control
Discussion of successful policies on the state and community that help curb tobacco use.

The unraveling of state tobacco control
Update on budget cuts and other restrictions imperiling many state tobacco control programs.

Evaluating the Massachusetts Smoke-Free Workplace Law
Review of the economic impact and health benefits of a statewide ban on workplace smoking.

Non-smoking policies in college dorms
Brief article on the growing trend in smoke-free dorms.

Graphic cigarette package warnings
Article on Canada’s cigarette pack labeling, which includes tips for quitting and health warnings backed-up by full-color graphic photos.

Tobacco companies and the African-American community
Article from the African-American perspective on taking a stand against Big Tobacco’s influence in the community.
 
Keeping African-American kids smoke-free by example
Practical tips from the African-American perspective on keeping kids smoke-free for life.

Cancer News in Context
NYC: Setting the Trend in Smoke-Free Living
Commentary on recent tobacco control efforts in New York City, including an expanded ban on workplace smoking that now covers bars and restaurants.

Speaker Series
Tobacco control in the shadow of the Master Settlement Agreement
Report on Dr. Greg Connolly’s discussion about the lack of positive outcomes from the once-promising court settlement with big tobacco.

The Marlboro Man Rides East: A panel discussion on the global tobacco control movement and the role of mass media
Report on a panel discussion about globalization and its potential impact on worldwide tobacco control.

Tobacco control in Latin America
Report on Dr. Joaquin Barnoya’s presentation on the tobacco industry’s secret efforts to counter tobacco control initiatives in Latin America.

Stop Tobacco Outreach Programs (STOP)
Report on Dr. Jonathan Winickoff’s discussion of STOP,  a program that helps parents of hospitalized children quit smoking.

Ask the Experts
Youth smoking prevention
Dr. Jonathan Winickoff provides strategies for parents to help their children stay smoke-free.