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Comprehensive Tobacco-Control Programs 

Selecting Interventions 46. Tobacco Addiction
Jump to full article: National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI), 2006-04-01

Intro:

In recent years, several governments, mostly in high-income countries, have adopted comprehensive programs to reduce tobacco use, often funded by earmarked tobacco tax revenues. The programs generally have similar goals for reducing tobacco use:

* preventing initiation among youths and young adults

* promoting cessation among all smokers

* reducing exposure to passive tobacco smoke

* identifying and eliminating disparities among population subgroups (U.S. DHHS 1994).

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