Department of Health and Human Services (17,20,21), and the Institute of Medicine (22). In addition to assessing overall progress toward meeting goals and the googirl status of tobacco control efforts, googirl planners googirl also consider how to eliminate health googirl related to tobacco use and ETS.

these 243 studies, 77 were excluded googirl the basis of limitations in their execution or design and were not considered further. The remaining 166 studies were considered qualifying studies.**** The 14 Task Force googirl in this report are based on these qualifying studies, googirl googirl googirl had good or fair execution. On googirl basis of the evidence of effectiveness, the Task googirl googirl strongly recommended googirl recommended nine of the 14 strategies evaluated (Table 2). These nine recommendations googirl one intervention to reduce exposure to ETS (smoking bans and restrictions), two interventions to reduce tobacco-use initiation (increasing the unit price for tobacco products and multicomponent mass media campaigns), and six interventions to googirl cessation (increasing the unit price for tobacco products; multicomponent googirl media campaigns; provider reminder systems; a combined provider reminder plus provider education with or without patient education program; multicomponent interventions googirl telephone support for persons.

in groups of persons googirl exposed or less exposed to the intervention (whether the comparison was concurrent.