Focusing on Smoking Prevention

Smokeless States Survey

We conducted state-level surveys to assist state coalitions in tobacco prevention and control interventions. We also compared tobacco policies among states. The surveys, funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, focused on public opinion related to four issues: (1) increasing tobacco taxes; (2) protecting the public from secondhand tobacco smoke, (3) limiting youth access to tobacco products, and (4) ascertaining support for restrictions on advertising. The surveys have also been used to assess public opinion about the tobacco industry's efforts to preempt local tobacco regulations, coalition proposals to divest public pension funds of tobacco stocks, lawsuits against the tobacco industry, and use of funds from the tobacco settlement.

NJ Adult Tobacco Survey

Based on screening interviews of 8,657 households that obtained information on the age, gender, and tobacco use of each adult, we completed extended interviews with adults of varying ages and smoking status. The interviews covered attitudes toward environmental tobacco smoke; the image of smoking among young adults; exposure to and reactions to tobacco and anti-tobacco media advertising; the use of cigarettes and other tobacco products; brand preferences among smokers; smoking cessation efforts by recent quitters and smokers; smoking dependency; health status; health insurance coverage; exposure to tobacco products in the home, workplace, and other settings; other risk behaviors; use of the internet; and demographic characteristics. The survey was funded by the N.J. Department of Health and Senior Services.

Surveying Health Professionals About Smoking Cessation Interventions

This survey of health professionals focused on awareness of clinical interventions, provision of counseling and other interventions, attitudes toward counseling and behavioral therapies, barriers to program participation (such as burden and reluctance to devote resources to people who do not want to quit smoking), resources required to participate in smoking cessation programs, current and past tobacco use, practice setting, and patient mix. The health professionals surveyed included physicians (primary care physicians, emergency care physicians, and psychiatrists) and allied health professionals (nurses, dentists, dental hygienists, and pharmacists). The survey was funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

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