title: Tobacco use: ending the epidemic.
abstract: Nurses should encourage leaders in their health care systems to provide effective tobacco-use treatment and follow up. Nurses also need to support the policy and community interventions that motivate tobacco users to try to quit, create a supportive environment, and provide more intensive interventions for those needing them.
authors.affiliation: Partnership for Prevention, Washington, DC, USA.
authors.forename: Corinne G
authors.initials: CG
authors.lastname: Husten
mesh_terms: D018672:Community Health Planning; D055317:Evidence-Based Practice; D006287:Health Planning Guidelines; D006291:Health Policy; D015277:Hotlines; D006801:Humans; D007255:Information Services; D020407:Internet; D024802:Nurse's Role; D010353:Patient Education as Topic; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic; D012907:Smoking / Q000453:epidemiology; D016540:Smoking Cessation / Q000379:methods; D000074606:Smoking Prevention; D012944:Social Support; D013660:Taxes; D014029:Tobacco Use Disorder / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000517:prevention & control*; D014481:United States / Q000453:epidemiology