What is a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) comprehensive tobacco prevention program?
The CDC comprehensive program is a short list of five strategies (state and local programs, public information campaigns, cessation services, evaluation, and management) that when all used together are proven to cut tobacco use dramatically. When tobacco use drops significantly, the sickness and death caused by tobacco also is reduced. To illustrate this need to be comprehensive, imagine if an immunization program only administered one out of a series of three doses of vaccine needed to protect a child from a contagious disease. Because only one third of the recommended dose was given, the child would not be protected and would remain at risk. The same is true for preventing and reducing tobacco use. Delivering less than one-third of a comprehensive plan doesn’t work!
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