title: Tobacco awareness: progress by the dental profession.
abstract: Perceptions of what constitutes a drug are changing: tobacco has been recognized as a drug as addicting as heroin or alcohol. This article presents a rationale for dentists providing tobacco prevention and cessation counseling and programs for patients, as well as steps for implementing such a program.
authors.affiliation: California Department of Health Services, Sacramento, California, USA.
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Noel
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D010353:Patient Education as Topic; D010947:Plants, Toxic; D011313:Preventive Dentistry / Q000379:methods*; D016540:Smoking Cessation; D012953:Societies, Dental; D014026:Nicotiana; D014481:United States