Article Text
Smoking intervention programme
Adult smoking intervention programmes in Massachusetts: a comprehensive approach with promising results
Abstract
This paper provides a brief overview of the history of Massachusetts' opposition to smoking. It describes the current Massachusetts Tobacco Control Program and its smoking intervention programmes; changes in public opinion, perceptions and attitudes toward smoking; and programme impact. Massachusetts has been successful in developing a comprehensive intervention that has had encouraging results in changing public attitudes about smoking and in helping smokers to quit.
- intervention programmes
- cessation
- ACS, American Cancer Society
- ASSIST, Americans Stop Smoking Intervention Study
- ETS, environmental tobacco smoke
- MATS, Massachusetts Adult Tobacco Survey
- MDPH, Massachusetts Department of Public Health
- MTCP, Massachusetts Tobacco Control Program