Summary
Published Date: October 01, 2016
The report is a comprehensive review of tobacco-related data across the state of California, and includes California Health interview Survey data for 2001, 2003, 2005, 2007, 2009, 2011-2013, 2013-2014, as well as other data sources. The report includes data on smoking prevalence, tobacco consumption, secondhand smoke exposure, cancer incidence and mortality, tobacco industry spending, and smoking cessation.
The California Department of Public Health (CDPH), California Tobacco Control Program (CTCP) was established in 1989, after California voters passed the Tobacco Tax and Health Protection Act (California Proposition 99) in November of 1988. As the longest-running comprehensive tobacco control program in the nation, CTCP seeks to change tobacco use norms in the larger physical and social environment and to create an environment in which tobacco use becomes less desirable, less acceptable, and less accessible. Declines in cigarette consumption and smoking prevalence in California are attributed to the success of the media campaign and state and community interventions.Publication Authors:
- California Department of Public Health