This is a blog for the Mental Health Policy Class at the George Warren Brown School of Social Work.

February 4, 2008

Study backs value of U.S. state anti-smoking plans

U.S. state tobacco control programs are effective at cutting the number of smokers, and states that spend more get the best results, federal health officials said on Tuesday.
Declines in adult smoking rates in individual states are directly related to increases in state per-capita investments in tobacco control and smoking cessation programs, according to a study published in the American Journal of Public Health.

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