Introduction
			Getting Started
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			Slides/Notes
			Patient Testimonial
			Surgeon General  Report 2001
			Surgeon General  Report 2006
			Closing The Loop
			Resources

Public Policy

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• Public policy and tobacco 2006
  
• Public policy and tobacco: Outline
  
• Importance of public policy
  
• Smoking prevalence in adults
  
• The physician's role in promoting public policy
  
• Health-care providers role in public policy
  
• What physicians can do to promote public policy change
  
• Key policy areas
  
• Laws and regulations on indoor smoking
  
• Smoke-free laws by state
  
• Smoke-free air as the norm
  
• Cigarette company myths regarding cigarette tax increases
  
• Truth about raising cigarette taxes
  
• Reality
  
• The Tobacco Industry knows tax increases cut use
  
• Trends in state and federal excise taxes and retail price
  
• Evidence supporting higher taxes reduces smoking
  
• Nearly all new smokers are under 18 years of age
  
• Smoking prevalence in youth
  
• States that require a tobacco-free school environment
  
• Colleges and universities with smoke-free air policies
  
• Progress has been made but a large problem remains
  
• Tobacco advertising and promotion
  
• Money spent marketing by tobacco industry
  
• Media and public policy
  
• Mass media
  
• Antitobacco counter advertising
  
• Counter advertising works
  
• Additional studies supporting antitobacco advertising
  
• The truth is on the next slide
  
• New Camel ad: Seventeen Magazine 2003
  
• The new Marlboro Man
  
• Antitobacco billboard
  
• The FDA’s role
  
• FDA: No control to regulate tobacco
  
• Youth smoking
  
• Lack of FDA control over tobacco
  
• Solution
  
• The public health community
  
• Public health community supports: Changes to tobacco products
  
• Public health community supports: Disclosure
  
• Public health community supports: Prohibition of “light” terms
  
• Current efforts in prevention of youth smoking
  
• Prevention of youth smoking: SHOUT
  
• Prevention of youth smoking: ASAP 1
  
• Prevention of youth smoking: ASAP 2
  
• Master settlement agreement
  
• MSA
  
• Phase II of MSA
  
• Use of MSA funds
  
• MSA: advertising expenditures
  
• MSA in 2006
  
• Smoking prevalence in youth: Slope of the curve
  
• Implications of fair and equitable tobacco reform Act of 2004
  
• Tobacco regulation as a drug and the FDA
  
• International efforts in tobacco policy
  
• International efforts
  
• Conclusion: Public policy efforts have made progress
  
• Conclusion: Health-care providers are persuasive antitobacco advocates
  
• The vision