Recommendations Regarding Tobacco Use and Secondhand Smoke Exposure from the Community Preventive Services Task Force

Recommendations Regarding Tobacco Use and Secondhand Smoke Exposure from the Community Preventive Services Task Force

Recommendation Regarding Tobacco Use and Secondhand Smoke Exposure — Community Preventive Services Task Force

Reviews of evidence regarding interventions to reduce tobacco use and exposure to environmental tobacco smoke.

This report presents the results of systematic reviews of effectiveness, applicability, other effects, economic evaluations, and barriers to use of selected population-based interventions intended to reduce tobacco use and exposure to environmental tobacco smoke. The related systematic reviews are linked by a common conceptual approach. These reviews form the basis of recommendations by the Tas...

Recommendations regarding interventions to reduce tobacco use and exposure to environmental tobacco smoke.

Tobacco use is the single largest cause of preventable premature death in the United States,1–3 and exposure to environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) is a preventable cause of significant morbidity and mortality.4–6 Preventing tobacco use in children and adolescents, reducing tobacco use in adults, and reducing nonsmokers’ exposure to ETS are essential public health objectives for communities. This...

Evidence reviews and recommendations on interventions to reduce tobacco use and exposure to environmental tobacco smoke: a summary of selected guidelines.

The reports in this supplement to the American Journal of Preventive Medicine by the Task Force on Community Preventive Services1 (TFCPS) and Hopkins et al.2 represent the work of the TFCPS, an independent, nonfederal group of national, regional, and local public health and prevention services experts supported by public and private partners. These reports are the second published section of wh...