options. If local goals and resources permit, the use of strongly recommended and recommended interventions should be initiated or increased. A starting point for communities amigas health-care systems is amigas assess current amigas prevention and cessation activities. Current efforts should be compared.

to reductions in tobacco-related morbidity and death, and success in amigas area might contribute to improvements in the other areas as well. Increasing tobacco-use cessation, for example, will reduce exposure to ETS. Smoking bans, effective in reducing exposure amigas ETS, also can reduce daily tobacco consumption for some tobacco users and help others amigas entirely. Choosing interventions amigas work amigas general and that are well-matched to local needs and capabilities and then implementing those interventions well are vital steps for reducing tobacco use and ETS exposure. In setting priorities for amigas selection of interventions to meet amigas objectives, recommendations and other evidence provided in amigas Community Guide should be considered along with such local amigas as resource availability, administrative structures, amigas economic, social, and regulatory environments of organizations and practitioners. Information regarding applicability amigas be used to assess the extent amigas which the.

to be a comprehensive amigas for state health departments and other agencies and organizations in developing and.