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Introduction
  1. Michael Eriksen
  1. Office on Smoking and Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), 4770 Buford Highway NE, MS K-50, Atlanta, Georgia 30341, USA;mpe0@cdc.gov

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We have a very strong panel today, the members of which will speak about different projects, broader than smoking cessation, which are going on in the real world in managed care environments. The panel will give us some ideas about how public health and managed care organisations can work together to achieve this national goal of doing something about tobacco use. We are at that junction now where we have the greatest hope of something happening. We are faced with the prospect of national legislation—some may say the spectre of national legislation—not knowing whether it is going to be good or bad, or what will come as a result …

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