[HealthyTribes] New CDC Guidelines, Best Practices for Comprehensive Tobacco Control Programs

[Weston Tara E]

Below is an email providing information regarding the new CDC Best practices for Comprehensive Tobacco Control Programs and the new recommended funding levels for these programs.


TPEP Coordinators:

New CDC guidance released in January 2014, Best Practices for Comprehensive Tobacco Control Programs – 2014, recommends that Oregon spend $39.3 million every year on a comprehensive tobacco prevention and education program.

Based on 2007 recommendations, Oregon funded its comprehensive tobacco prevention and education at 14% of CDC recommended levels between 2007 and 2014. The January 2014 revised recommendations bring Oregon’s 2013-2015 commitment to tobacco prevention and education to 25% of the CDC recommended level. When you are speaking with community members and leaders, please begin to let them know that:
×          Oregon’s statewide funding for tobacco prevention and education programming is 25% of the CDC recommended level.
A supplemental talking point is that:
×          This represents 12% of tobacco tax revenue and Tobacco Master Settlement Agreement money received annually by the state.

Best Practices–2014 updates the guidance provided in 2007, reflecting additional state experiences; new scientific literature; and changes in state populations, inflation, and the national tobacco control landscape.         This is the first updated to the Best Practices guide since 2007. Primary updates made in the 2014 version include:

×          Revisions to the funding formula to account for changes in the tobacco control landscape and other factors since 2007.
×          Using two levels of funding recommendations, classified as Minimum and Recommended, compared to three in 2007.

o   The Upper level of Best Practices–2007 is comparable to the Recommended level in Best Practices–2014.

More resources and the updated Best Practices Guide are available here:
http://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/stateandcommunity/best_practices/index.htm?source=govdelivery and on HPCDP Connection https://partners.health.oregon.gov/Partners/HPCDPConnection/Tobacco/Pages/index.aspx.

A comprehensive statewide tobacco prevention and education program, such as that in Oregon, is a coordinated effort to establish comprehensive smoke-free policies and social norms, promote and help tobacco users to quit, and prevent non-users from starting. Evidence-based, statewide tobacco control programs that are comprehensive, sustained, and accountable reduce smoking rates and tobacco-related deaths and diseases.

The Surgeon General’s Report released in January 2014 emphasized that comprehensive tobacco control efforts have averted at least 8 million early deaths since 1965, but that these evidence-based tobacco control interventions continue to be underutilized. As Acting Surgeon General Boris Lushniak said in releasing this latest Surgeon General’s Report, “Enough is enough!” For more information from the Surgeon General, please visit the web site: http://www.surgeongeneral.gov/initiatives/tobacco/index.html.

Please let your liaison know if you have any questions,

Tara Weston, MPH  ǀ Tobacco & Community Programs Liaison
Health Promotion and Chronic Disease Prevention  ǀ  Public Health Division
800 NE Oregon Street, Suite 730  ǀ  Portland, OR 97232
Desk: 971-673-1047  ǀ  Cell: 503-758-5523  ǀ  tara.e.weston at state.or.us<mailto:tara.e.weston at state.or.us>


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