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. 2004 Feb;94(2):205-10.
doi: 10.2105/ajph.94.2.205.

Preventing 3 million premature deaths and helping 5 million smokers quit: a national action plan for tobacco cessation

Michael C Fiore  1 , Robert T Croyle, Susan J Curry, Charles M Cutler, Ronald M Davis, Catherine Gordon, Cheryl Healton, Howard K Koh, C Tracy Orleans, Dennis Richling, David Satcher, John Seffrin, Christine Williams, Larry N Williams, Paula A Keller, Timothy B Baker
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Preventing 3 million premature deaths and helping 5 million smokers quit: a national action plan for tobacco cessation

Michael C Fiore et al. Am J Public Health. 2004 Feb.

Abstract

In August 2002, the Subcommittee on Cessation of the Interagency Committee on Smoking and Health (ICSH) was charged with developing recommendations to substantially increase rates of tobacco cessation in the United States. The subcommittee's report, A National Action Plan for Tobacco Cessation, outlines 10 recommendations for reducing premature morbidity and mortality by helping millions of Americans stop using tobacco. The plan includes both evidence-based, population-wide strategies designed to promote cessation (e.g., a national quitline network) and a Smokers' Health Fund to finance the programs (through a 2 US dollar per pack excise tax increase). The subcommittee report was presented to the ICSH (February 11, 2003), which unanimously endorsed sending it to Secretary Thompson for his consideration. In this article, we summarize the national action plan.

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Federal initiatives in the National Action Plan for Tobacco Cessation.
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Comment in

  • America's choice: reducing tobacco addiction and disease.
    Koop CE, Richmond J, Steinfeld J. Koop CE, et al. Am J Public Health. 2004 Feb;94(2):174-6. doi: 10.2105/ajph.94.2.174. Am J Public Health. 2004. PMID: 14759921 Free PMC article. No abstract available.
  • Tobacco control?
    Schrand JR. Schrand JR. Am J Public Health. 2004 Sep;94(9):1475; author reply 1475-6. doi: 10.2105/ajph.94.9.1475. Am J Public Health. 2004. PMID: 15333295 Free PMC article. No abstract available.

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