Reviews of evidence regarding interventions to reduce tobacco use and exposure ao environmental tobacco smoke

This report: presents the results of systematic reviews of effectiveness, a pplicability, other effects, economic evaluations, and barriers to use of s elected population-based interventions intended to reduce tobacco use and e xposure to environmental tobacco smoke. The related systematic reviews are linked by a common conceptual approach. These reviews form the basis of rec ommendations by the Task Force on Community Preventive Services (TFCPS) reg arding the use of these selected interventions. The TFCPS recommendations a re presented on page 67 of this supplement. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH): smoking cessation, tobacco use cessation, tobacco smoke pollution, community health services, decision-making, eviden ce-based medicine, meta-analysis, review literature, practice guidelines, p reventive health services, public health practice (C) 2001 American Journal of Preventive Medicine.