Abstract Literally, Public Law 99‐252 (otherwise known as the Comprehensive Smokeless
Tobacco Health Education Act of 1986) includes provisions that are informational in nature …

Abstract Evaluation of the impact of the Comprehensive Smokeless Tobacco Health
Education Act of 1986 (PL 99‐252) will help determine the level of progress being made to …

This paper is one of a series attempting to determine the impact of Public Law 99‐252, the
Comprehensive Smokeless Tobacco Health Education Act of 1986, on decreasing …

This article briefly reviews the prevalence of smokeless tobacco use by males in the United
States, the relationship of smokeless tobacco use to cigarette use, and patterns of use that …

In a previous paper,“Evaluating the Impact of PL 99‐252 on Decreasing Smokeless Tobacco
Use,” the context of this law and the theoretical framework for an evaluation plan for …

One‐half of those who have ever smoked cigarettes are currently former smokers. This
cessation coincided with a forty‐year effort to educate and inform smokers about the risks of …

Every year the use of tobacco takes a tremen-dous toll on the world's population in terms of
illness and death, even almost forty years after the first report of the US Surgeon General on …

OBJECTIVES. Primary care medical clinics are good settings for smoking interventions. This
study extends this strategy with a smokeless tobacco intervention delivered by dentists and …

Tobacco use adversely affects oral health and dental care. Globally, the health
consequences of tobacco use are worsening, particularly those caused by cigarette …

Background Cigarette smoking remains the nation's leading preventable cause of premature
mortality. Tobacco use also is responsible for 75 percent of deaths resulting from oral and …