Adult smoking intervention programmes in Massachusetts: a comprehensive approach with promising results.
This paper provides a brief overview of the history of Massachusetts' opposition to smoking. It describes the current Massachusetts Tobacco Control Program and its smoking intervention programmes; changes in public opinion, perceptions and attitudes toward smoking; and programme impact. Massachusetts has been successful in developing a comprehensive intervention that has had encouraging results in changing public attitudes about smoking and in helping smokers to quit.
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Massachusetts Tobacco Control Program, Massachusetts Department of Public Health, 250 Washington Street, 4th Floor, Boston, MA 02108-4619, USA. harriet.robbins@state.ma.us
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