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State Programs Can Reduce Tobacco Use
An ongoing debate in nearly every state capital focuses on how to spend money from the tobacco settlement, prompting some officials to ask the question: Do state tobacco-control programs work?
State Programs Can Reduce Tobacco Use, a policy paper from the Institute of Medicine, reviews 10 years of regulatory experiences and finds that states that have mounted substantial tobacco control programs have seen greater drops in smoking.
The report presents evidence of effectiveness and descriptions of the programs that have worked.
Available online only -- to read or download -- for free.
http://books.nap.edu/catalog/9762.html
Publication Year: 2000
Publisher Institute of Medicine 2101 Constitution Avenue, NW Washington, dc 20418 Phone: (202) 334-2000 Website: http://www.iom.edu/
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Boston University School of Public Health 
