Georgia 2007 Data Use Summary: Tobacco Use

Surgeon General Reports:

Children and Secondhand Smoke Exposure-Excerpts from The Health Consequences of Involuntary Exposure to Tobacco Smoke: A Report of the Surgeon General (2007)

The Health Consequences of Involuntary Exposure to Tobacco Smoke: A Report of the Surgeon General (2006)

Surgeon General's Consumer Pamphlet on Secondhand Smoke

 The Health Consequences of Smoking: A Report of the Surgeon General (2004)

Tobacco Cessation - You Can Quit Smoking Now! (Surgeon General link to materials)

Healthy People 2010

Cost of Tobacco Online Calculator (American Cancer Society)

Cost of Tobacco Online Calculator (aimed at College students)

American Lung Association: State of Tobacco Control in Georgia

No Affect On Employee Turnover Caused By Smoke-Free Laws
Medical News Today, 5/7/08

Tobacco-related disease mortality among men who switched from cigarettes to spit tobacco
S Jane Henley , et al, Epidemiology and Surveillance Research, American Cancer Society,
Office of Smoking and Health, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2006

Other Tobacco Use Prevention Resources

• American Legacy Foundation
• The Praxis Project
• National Tribal Tobacco Prevention Network
• National African American Tobacco Education Network
• National African American Tobacco Prevention Network
• Asian Pacific Partners for Empowerment and Leadership (APPEAL)
• The National Latino Council on Alcohol and Tobacco Prevention
• Georgia Ethnic Health Network

Smoking and erectile dysfunction: findings from a representative sample of Australian men
C Millett, L M Wen, C Rissel, A Smith, J Richters, A Grulich, R de Visser
Tobacco Control 2006;15:136–139. doi: 10.1136/tc.2005.015545

2005 Georgia Youth Tobacco Survey Report

Asthma and Secondhand Smoke Data Summary 2007

Other Hospital-Related Toolkits Online:

West Virginia:  http://www.wvha.com/tobacco%20free/index.htm 

Nebraska:  http://www.nhanet.org/publications/tobacco_free.pdf 

North Carolina:  http://www.healthyhospital.org/ 

Oregon/Washington:  http://www.makeityourbusiness.net/ 

South Dakota:  http://www.healthysd.gov/TobaccoFreeResources.html 

Arkansas:  http://www.uams.edu/coph/reports/SmokeFree_Toolkit/ 

Maryland:  http://www.mdhospitals.org/mha/Community_Health_Resources/Smoke_Free_Hospital_Campuses.shtml 

Ohio:  http://www.ohanet.org/advocacy/tobacco/ 

Pennsylvania:  http://www.haponline.org/community_health/tobacco_free/

Tobacco Technical Assistance Consortium (TTAC)

Georgia County Estimates for Tobacco Production

Smoke-Free Hospitals Lead to Smoke-Free Employees
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Grant Results, 2000

For more information, Contact at the Georgia Hospital Association.