Smoking among youths and young adults has been rising throughout the 1990’s. Numerous policies have been enacted to try to reverse this trend. However, little is known about the impact that these policies have on the smoking behavior of young adults. This study uses a dichotomous...

Tobacco industry money has not been successful in recent years in buying support from lawmakers in Hawai'i. Since 2001, major legislation on clean indoor air, tobacco tax increases and a tobacco tax stamp measure have passed by comfortable margins. In 1994, the City Council of Honolulu passed...

The tobacco control program in Pennsylvania was well established due to adequate funding, political support from previous Administrations, and dedicated tobacco control professionals across the state. The passage of Act 77 of 2001, allocating all the Master Settlement monies to health...

This review focuses on the extent to which comprehensive, statewide, tobacco control programs in the United States have induced change in teenage smoking or made progress towards this goal and under what circumstances such programs are likely to be most effective. The sources for this review...

The Center for Tobacco Policy Research at the Saint Louis University Prevention Research Center is conducting a three-year project examining the current status of 12-15 state tobacco control programs. The project aims to: 1) develop a comprehensive picture of a state’s tobacco control...

• Governor Gray Davis has proposed a $1.10 increase in the cigarette tax and Assembly Speaker Herb Wesson has proposed a $2.13 increase in the cigarette tax. • The state's Tobacco Education and Research Oversight Committee has noted that the California Tobacco Control Program has...

For over 100 years taxation has been a common method of revenue collection in New Zealand and the major policy instrument for reducing tobacco use since the comprehensive tobacco control programme began in 19851. Tobacco tax rates have been raised once or twice a year since that time2. A...

The Tobacco Control Country Profiles features a comprehensive compilation of statistical information about the world’s most significant cancer risk factor: tobacco use. In the United States, tobacco causes 30% of cancer deaths among men and women. As the tobacco industry intensifies its...

Following the passage of Measure 44, which raised the cigarette tax by $0.30 in 1996, Oregon created its comprehensive Tobacco Prevention and Education Program (TPEP) in 1997 funded by 10% of Measure 44 revenues. The Tobacco Free Coalition of Oregon (TOFCO) was a broad coalition of the voluntary...

In England (as in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland as a whole) smoking prevalence in adults (aged 16 and over) has been falling in both men and women since the 1970s (1). During the 1990s, however, this decline levelled off, as the diagram below illustrates. Currently, in...