Partners

ChangeLab Solutions works across the nation to advance equitable laws and policies that ensure healthy lives for all. They partner with communities, provide strategic technical assistance, offer an extensive resource library, engage partners with tailored trainings, and design customized tools. They offer a wide range of resources to help communities tailor and implement tobacco prevention policy options.

The Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids is a non-profit organization devoted to reducing tobacco use and promoting policies to create a future free of the death and disease caused by tobacco. The Campaign provides domestic and international resources across a variety of topics related to tobacco control. They also host Kick Butts Day, an annual event that empowers youth across the US to speak out against Big Tobacco by hosting events and raising awareness in their community.

The Public Health Law Center The Public Health Law Center helps create communities where everyone can be healthy. They empower their partners to transform their environments by eliminating tobacco, promoting healthy food, and encouraging active lifestyles. They support tobacco control policy change and the tobacco control movement throughout the United States, developing resources on the most effective legal and policy measures that health leaders and policymakers can use to control the epidemic of tobacco use in the United States and abroad.

The Center for Public Health and Tobacco Policy is a resource for communities striving to improve public health through implementing evidence-based policies. Funded to work with the New York State cancer prevention program and the tobacco control programs of both New York and Vermont, the center provides support for policies that reduce the availability of tobacco products; protect non-smokers from secondhand smoke; minimize tobacco advertising and promotion; increase cancer screening rates; and promote healthy behaviors. It is affiliated with the Tobacco Control Legal Consortium and is part of the Public Health Advocacy Institute (PHAI) at Northeastern University Law School.

The mission of the American Lung Association in California is to save lives by improving lung health and preventing lung disease through education, awareness, advocacy and research. Their Center for Tobacco Policy & Organizing project website has many resources to increase the effectiveness of tobacco control advocates. Resources include fact sheets and polling information around the retail environment, as well as a number of community organizing tools.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention—Office on Smoking and Health (OSH) is the lead federal agency for comprehensive tobacco prevention and control. Here you can find many resources related to tobacco control as well as information and data related to state tobacco control programs.

National Cancer Institute, part of the National Institutes of Health, is the primary agency in the United States responsible for cancer research, training, health information dissemination and other programs with respect to the cause, diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of cancer, rehabilitation from cancer, and the continuing care of cancer patients and the families of cancer patients.