Summary
The report highlights progress made toward California’s goals to create tobacco-free communities, promote tobacco use prevention and cessation, and end tobacco industry influence. The state’s comprehensive tobacco control program begins its next chapter with a paradigm shift from trying to control the tobacco industry and the damage it inflicts to a new era of seeing an end to the tobacco epidemic. The program’s new name, the California Tobacco Prevention Program (CTPP), reflects this change. CTPP’s vison is to transform California by eradicating the tobacco industry’s influence, and to end the damage tobacco products cause to the health and economic wellbeing of all Californians and the environment.
As part of its ongoing commitment to eliminate the health disparities caused by the tobacco industry, in 2023 CTPP funded 20 local projects to work in communities that are disproportionally targeted by the tobacco industry (known as “priority populations”). The Tobacco-Related Disparity Indicators Dashboard tracks and monitors California’s progress in reducing 17 tobacco-related disparity indicators among CTPP’s priority populations.
This report uses 2001–2022 California Health Interview Survey (CHIS) data.
