This volume is the twentieth of the Tobacco Control Monograph series of the National Cancer Institute (NCI). The series began in 1991 with a visionary blueprint for public health action on tobacco prevention and control. In the years since, it has disseminated important cross­ cutting research in areas such as the impact of tobacco control policies, the risks associated with smoking cigars and ...

OBJECTIVE Determination of the prevalence of tobacco use and impact of tobacco prevention/treatment efforts in an electronic medical record enabled practice utilizing a defined tobacco vital sign variable. DESIGN AND MEASUREMENTS Retrospective cohort study utilizing patient data recorded in an electronic medical record database between July 15, 2001, and May 31, 2003. Patient-reported tobacco...

Oncology nurses should be aware of smoking-related public health legislation and tobacco use prevention resources as well as increase their knowledge of psycho-education materials, medications, and products available to aid smoking cessation. Smoking is the leading cause of preventable death; one out of five deaths in the United States is attributed to smoking. Each day, almost 4,000 Americans ...

Nearly 90% of adult smokers in the United States began smoking by age 18 years. To assess current tobacco product use among youths, CDC analyzed data from the 2012 National Youth Tobacco Survey (NYTS). This report describes the results of that analysis, which found that, in 2012, the prevalence of current tobacco product use among middle and high school students was 6.7% and 23.3%, respectively...

The presentations in this session dealt with four broad variables that influence child and adolescent (youth) use of tobacco--pricing, industry advertising and promotion, access, and prevention programs. Changes in pricing, advertising and access attempt to reduce the supply of tobacco products to youth, and are thought of as supply-side approaches. Prevention programs attempt to reduce demand ...

BACKGROUND Child health care is an important arena for tobacco prevention in Sweden. The aim of this study was to describe parents' experiences from participating in a nursebased tobacco prevention intervention. METHODS Eleven parents were interviewed using semi-structured interviews. The material was analysed in a qualitative content analysis process. RESULTS The analysis emerged four cate...