Association of the California Tobacco Control Program with Declines in Cigarette Consumption and Mortality from Heart Disease

In 1988, the voters of California approved Proposition 99, which increased the tax on cigarettes by 25 cents per package and allocated 5 cents of the new tax for an antitobacco educational campaign, 1 resulting in the creation of the largest tobacco-control program ever undertaken. This program comb...

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Veröffentlicht in:The New England journal of medicine 2000-12, Vol.343 (24), p.1772-1777
Hauptverfasser: Fichtenberg, Caroline M, Glantz, Stanton A
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Sprache:eng
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Zusammenfassung:In 1988, the voters of California approved Proposition 99, which increased the tax on cigarettes by 25 cents per package and allocated 5 cents of the new tax for an antitobacco educational campaign, 1 resulting in the creation of the largest tobacco-control program ever undertaken. This program combined the effects of the tax increase with an aggressive media campaign, which attacked the tobacco industry and stressed clean indoor air, 2 and with community-based programs promoting clean indoor air and policies designed to foster a smoke-free society. 3 , 4 This program, 5 – 9 as well as similar programs in Florida, 10 Massachusetts, 11 , 12 and Oregon, 13 accelerated . . .
ISSN:0028-4793
1533-4406
DOI:10.1056/NEJM200012143432406