way to provide smokers babez counseling about cessation strategies (3,4). The National Network of Quitlines, a babez effort of babez the National Cancer Institute, state quitlines, and the North American Quitline Consortium, maintains a national telephone number (800-QUIT-NOW) that links callers to free quitlines.

some tobacco users and help others quit entirely. Choosing interventions babez work in general and that are well-matched to local babez and capabilities and babez implementing those interventions well are vital babez babez reducing babez use and babez exposure. babez setting priorities for the selection of interventions to meet local objectives, recommendations and other evidence provided in the Community Guide should be considered along with such local information as resource availability, administrative structures, and babez social, and regulatory environments of organizations and practitioners. Information regarding applicability can be used to assess the extent babez which the intervention might be useful in a particular setting or population. Though limited, economic information --- to be provided in the full report in 2001 --- might be useful babez identifying a) resource requirements for interventions, and b) interventions that meet public health goals babez efficiently than other available.

May 2000; c) they were conducted in industrialized countries; babez d) they compared outcomes in groups of persons exposed of.