Preventing 3 Million Premature Deaths and Helping 5 Million Smokers Quit: A National Action Plan for Tobacco Cessation

• Published in: American journal of public health (1971) Vol. 94; no. 2; pp. 205 - 210
• Main Authors: Fiore, Michael C, Croyle, Robert T, Curry, Susan J, Cutler, Charles M, Davis, Ronald M, Gordon, Catherine, Healton, Cheryl, Koh, Howard K, Orleans, C. Tracy, Richling, Dennis, Satcher, David, Seffrin, John, Williams, Christine, Williams, Larry N, Keller, Paula A, Baker, Timothy B
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Washington, DC Am Public Health Assoc 01.02.2004; American Public Health Association; American Journal of Public Health 2004
• Subjects: Addictive behaviors; Adult and adolescent clinical studies; Biological and medical sciences; Cause of Death; Cessation; Cost of Illness; Counseling; Diseases of mother, fetus and pregnancy; Excise taxes; Federal Government; Gynecology. Andrology. Obstetrics; Health hazards; Health Planning Guidelines; Health Policy; Humans; Medical sciences; Minority & ethnic groups; Morbidity; Mortality; National Action Plan for Tobacco Cessation; Pregnancy. Fetus. Placenta; Prevention; Private Sector; Programmes; Progress, Setbacks, and Future Needs; Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry; Psychopathology. Psychiatry; Public health; Public Health Practice - standards; Public Sector; Smoking; Smoking - adverse effects; Smoking - economics; Smoking cessation; Smoking Cessation - economics; Smoking Prevention; Social Marketing; Socioeconomic factors; Taxes - legislation & jurisprudence; Testimony; Tobacco industry; Tobacco Industry - legislation & jurisprudence; Tobacco smoke; Tobacco smoking; United States; USA; United States; North America; America; United States > US; Human; Premature; Sanitary program; Mortality; Tobacco smoking; Pregnancy; Prevention; Tobacco; Mother; Smoker; Female; Death; Public health
• ISSN: 0090-0036; 1541-0048
• DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.94.2.205

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.