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Core Concepts in Health, 9/e
Paul M. Insel, Stanford University School of Medicine
Walton T. Roth, Stanford University School of Medicine

Toward a Tobacco-Free Society

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Figure 11-1 (See p. 286 in your text.)

Annual deaths among smokers attributable to smoking-related diseases

An abstract of the analysis cited for this figure is available online http://jama.ama-assn.org/issues/v284n6/abs/joc00088.html Thun, M. J., L. F. Apicella, and S. J. Henley. 2000. Smoking vs. other risk factors as the cause of smoking-attributable deaths. Journal of the American Medical Association 284(6): 706-712.

Other information on the health risks of smoking is available from the following:

http://www.lungusa.org American Lung Association

http://www.cancer.org/gasp American Cancer Society: Tobacco

http://www.cdc.gov/tobacco CDC Tobacco Information and Prevention Source (TIPS)

http://www.who.int/toh WHO Tobacco Free Initiative

Table 11-1 (See p. 292 in your text.)

Who Smokes?

Statistics on tobacco use are published periodically by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and can be accessed through the http://www.cdc.gov/tobacco CDC Tobacco Information and Prevention Source.

Other groups also track tobacco use:

The annual http://www.DrugAbuseStatistics.samhsa.gov National Household Survey on Drug Abuse (NHSDA), available online from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), includes tobacco use statistics by age, gender, ethnicity, level of education, geographic location, and by brand of cigarette smoked.

http://monitoringthefuture.org Monitoring the Future focuses on drug, alcohol, and tobacco use among high school students (8th, 10th, and 12th graders).

http://www.cdc.gov/nccdphp/brfss CDC Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System looks at health risk behaviors among adults, including the use of alcohol and tobacco.

http://www.cdc.gov/nccdphp/dash/yrbs/index.htm CDC Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System looks at a variety of health risk behaviors among young people, including the use of tobacco.

http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/cas Harvard School of Public Health College Alcohol Study examines health risk behaviors among college students, including tobacco use.

Figure 11-4 (See p. 299 in your text.)

Tobacco use among middle school and high school students

Statistics on tobacco use are published periodically by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and can be accessed through the http://www.cdc.gov/tobacco CDC Tobacco Information and Prevention Source.

Other groups also track tobacco use:

The annual http://www.DrugAbuseStatistics.samhsa.gov National Household Survey on Drug Abuse (NHSDA), available online from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), includes tobacco use statistics by age, gender, ethnicity, level of education, geographic location, and by brand of cigarette smoked.

http://monitoringthefuture.org Monitoring the Future focuses on drug, alcohol, and tobacco use among high school students (8th, 10th, and 12th graders).

http://www.cdc.gov/nccdphp/brfss CDC Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System looks at health risk behaviors among adults, including the use of alcohol and tobacco.

http://www.cdc.gov/nccdphp/dash/yrbs/index.htm CDC Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System looks at a variety of health risk behaviors among young people, including the use of tobacco.

http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/cas Harvard School of Public Health College Alcohol Study examines health risk behaviors among college students, including tobacco use.