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Some health organizations manage text messaging services to help people avoid smoking. Self-help materials may produce a small increase in quit rates specially when there is no other supporting intervention form. [100] "The effect of self-help was weak", and the number of types of self-help did not produce higher abstinence rates.
The tobacco control field comprises the activity of disparate health, policy and legal research and reform advocacy bodies across the world. These took time to coalesce into a sufficiently organised coalition to advance such measures as the World Health Organization Framework Convention on Tobacco Control, and the first article of the first edition of the Tobacco Control journal suggested that ...
Office of the Surgeon General: Publishes in print and on the web, a variety of materials related to smoking health issues and cessation of smoking. [7] Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC): through its Office of Smoking and Health (OSH) is the lead federal agency for comprehensive tobacco prevention and control.
Truth Initiative was founded in 1999 as a result of the Tobacco Master Settlement Agreement (MSA). The MSA was announced in 1998, resolving the lawsuits brought by 46 U.S. states, the District of Columbia and five territories against the major U.S. cigarette companies, to recover state Medicaid and other costs from caring for sick smokers.
In the United States, smoker protection laws are state statutes that prevent employers from discriminating against employees for using tobacco products. Currently twenty-nine states and the District of Columbia have such laws. Although laws vary from state to state, employers are generally prohibited from either refusing to hire or firing an ...
The Filter provides workshops and quit smoking programmes delivered by smoking cessation advisors. [citation needed] The Filter Project was launched in 2013 as a result of funding from the Big Lottery Fund. [40] Since then The Filter has delivered its workshops and cessation support to more than 6,000 people across Wales.
The consumption of tobacco products and its harmful effects affect both smokers and non-smokers, [9] and is a major risk factor for six of the eight leading causes of deaths in the world, including respiratory diseases, cardiovascular diseases, cerebrovascular diseases, periodontal diseases, teeth decay and loss, over 20 different types or subtypes of cancers, strokes, several debilitating ...
The creation of the Foundation for a Smoke-Free World was met with skepticism by the medical community. The World Health Organization, [4] [7] Union for International Cancer Control, [19] the American Cancer Society, [20] Vital Strategies [21] and other health organisations announced that they would not work with the Foundation, and encouraged governments and the public health community to ...