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

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

The Community Preventive Services Task Force recently posted new information about two recommendations: 1) “Reducing Tobacco Use and Secondhand Smoke Exposure: Reducing Out-of-Pocket Costs for Evidence-Based Tobacco Cessation Treatments,” available at http://www.thecommunityguide.org/tobacco/outofpocketcosts.html, and 2) “Reducing Tobacco Use and Secondhand Smoke Exposure: Quitline Intervention...

Recommendations Regarding Tobacco Use and Secondhand Smoke Exposure from the 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...

Primary care interventions to prevent tobacco use in children and adolescents.

DESCRIPTION: Update of the 2003 U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) recommendation on primary care interventions to prevent tobacco use in children and adolescents. METHODS: The USPSTF reviewed the evidence on the effectiveness of primary care interventions on the rates of initiation or cessation of tobacco use in children and adolescents and on health outcomes, such as respiratory hea...