Tobacco
Tobacco is a preventable killer. APHA champions efforts to help Americans live tobacco-free, including laws that create smoke-free workplaces and policies that make it easier for smokers to quit.
- Read the letter to the House and Senate opposing the Traditional Cigar Manufacturing and Small Business Jobs Preservation Act of 2021. (PDF)
- Read the letter to Congress outlining anti-smoking priorities for the fiscal year 2023 budget. (PDF)
- APHA: FDA's decision to begin prohibiting menthol cigarettes will save lives
- Read our Preventing Youth Smoking fact sheet. (PDF)
- Read the organization letter to Congress in support of the Quit Because of COVID Act. (PDF)
- Read the organization letters to House and Senate Appropriations Committee leaders in support of funding for the CDC Office on Smoking and Health. (PDF)
- From The Nation's Health: Smoking rates still high among low-income Americans
- Check out our fact sheet (PDF) on tobacco control and prevention.
- Check out the report (PDF) from our symposium with CVS Health on helping Americans live smoke-free.
- From The Nation's Health: States taking action to regulate e-cigarettes
- APHA policy statements that address tobacco include: Supporting Regulation of E-Cigarettes and Supporting the Goal of a Tobacco-Free Military.