GOVERNMENT SHIRKS TOBACCO CONTROL EFFORT.(OPINION)(GUEST COLUMN)(Column)

Wisconsin State Journal (Madison, WI);  January 3, 2004 ;     559 words ......decimation of Wisconsin's tobacco control programs? Young people from all...discontinued. Wisconsin's tobacco control programs have been drastically...million tax dollars to tobacco control programs that work and are accountable...

NEW STUDY SHOWS TOBACCO CONTROL PROGRAMS CUT ADULT SMOKING RATES

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  January 30, 2008 ;     700+ words ......Greater investments in state tobacco control programs are independently and...between comprehensive tobacco control programs and a decrease in adult...study, "The Impact of Tobacco Control Programs on Adult Smoking," is...

New Study Shows Fully Funded Tobacco Control Programs Reduce Number of...

Ascribe Higher Education News Service;  January 28, 2008 ;     700+ words ......evidence that comprehensive tobacco control programs save lives. The study...states had funded their tobacco control programs at the levels recommended...spending on comprehensive tobacco control programs results in fewer adults...

CALIFORNIA TOBACCO CONTROL PROGRAM SAVED BILLIONS IN MEDICAL COSTS

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  August 25, 2008 ;     700+ words ......156 billion. Large state tobacco control programs have previously been shown...not have comprehensive tobacco control programs before 2000. "We confirmed...study results show that tobacco control programs not only reduce smoking...

Tobacco control program saved billions of U.S. dollars in health costs

Xinhua News Agency;  August 27, 2008 ;     362 words ...Tobacco control program saved billions...California's tobacco control program saved 86...as a result of the tobacco control program between 1989...the UCSF Center for Tobacco Control Research and Education...between per capita tobacco control expenditures, ...

VOA NEWS: TOBACCO CONTROL PROGRAMS REDUCE HEALTH-CARE COSTS

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  September 2, 2008 ;     499 words ......states that did not have tobacco control programs as the control group...Glantz notes that similar tobacco control programs will soon become more...implement large-scale tobacco control programs." Stan Glantz says California...

Faith Community and Tobacco Control Leaders Join Forces to Increase...

PR Newswire;  January 22, 2004 ;     369 words ......ask for full funding of tobacco control programs in New Jersey. The New Jersey Comprehensive Tobacco Control Program (CTCP) was cut...investment in tobacco control programs to reduce smoking among...to the investment in tobacco control in FY2002. Governor ...

Compendium of State Tobacco Control Laws Released; American Lung...

U.S. Newswire;  May 25, 2004 ;     580 words ......cutting funds for important tobacco control programs," said John L. Kirkwood...evidence that fully funding tobacco control programs can save lives and reduce...four states funded their tobacco control programs in 2003 at or above the...

UP IN SMOKE? LOCAL AGENCIES FEAR BUDGET CUTS WILL HAMPER TOBACCO CONTROL

The Boston Globe;  October 20, 2002 ;     700+ words ......North Shore Tobacco Control Program in Salem...Massachusetts Tobacco Control Program (MTCP...may mean that tobacco control programs in Salem, Gloucester...Boards of Health Tobacco Control Program in Haverhill...North Shore Tobacco Control ...

American Lung Association Report Cites California's Smoke-free Air and...

AScribe Health News Service;  January 6, 2005 ;     700+ words ......American Lung Association State of Tobacco Control 2004 report. The annual report...California's funding level for tobacco control and prevention programs and its...and C grades in the report for tobacco control and prevention spending as well...American Lung Association State of ...

Federal government gets an "F" for tobacco control.(Upfront)

Journal of Dental Hygiene;  March 22, 2005 ;     430 words ......public health through tobacco control, the U.S. federal government...ALA). In its State of Tobacco Control 2004 report, the ALA...Framework Convention on Tobacco Control, an international treaty...on their funding for tobacco prevention and control programs, ...

Tobacco control support drops.(POLICY & PRACTICE)(Brief article)

Internal Medicine News;  October 1, 2008 ;     134 words ...Budgets for tobacco control programs in most states are either staying level or declining, despite increases in payments from the 1997 Tobacco Master Settlement Agreement...some of the cost of smoking-related illnesses, the American Lung Association reported. The ALA report blamed the stable or reduced ...

Tobacco control support drops.(Policy & Practice)(Brief article)

Family Practice News;  October 1, 2008 ;     137 words ...Budgets for tobacco control programs in most states are either staying level or declining, despite increases in payments from the 1997 Tobacco Master Settlement Agreement...Association reported. The ALA report blamed the stable or reduced budgets on the poor economy in a number of states on reduced ...

Spend money on tobacco control plans, coalition says

Charleston Gazette;  October 22, 1999 ;     366 words ......receive from a national tobacco settlement should be used on tobacco control programs, the Coalition for...significant investment in tobacco control programs could eliminate tobacco...programs include tobacco control, he said. The state...

Spend litigation money on tobacco control -- and save children's lives

The Boston Globe;  April 6, 1999 ;     700+ words ......billion from the tobacco settlement, it is...settlement money on tobacco control programs, we will have abandoned...of Public Health's tobacco-control program is a model...of local tobacco control programs. They're wrong. If...litigation to fund tobacco ...