Ending the tobacco problem : a blueprint for the nation / Committee on Reducing Tobacco Use: Strategies, Barriers, and Consequences, Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice ; Richard J. Bonnie, Kathleen Stratton, and Robert B. Wallace, editors.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Epidemiology of tobacco use: history and current trends -- Factors perpetuating the tobacco problem -- Containing the tobacco problem -- Reducing tobacco use: a policy framework -- Strengthening traditional tobacco control measures -- Changing the regulatory landscape -- New frontiers of tobacco control -- Appendix: A. Comprehensive smoking cessation for all smokers -- B. Clean air laws -- C. Warning labels and packaging -- D. The long-term promise of effective school-based smoking prevention programs -- E. Adolescents' and young adults' perceptions of tobacco use -- F. Interventions for children and youth in the health care setting -- G. Reducing and preventing tobacco use among pregnant women, parents, and families -- H. Smoking in the movies -- I. State statutes governing direct shipment of alcoholic beverages to consumers -- J. The role of public policies in reducing smoking prevalence -- K. Commissioned simulation modeling of smoking prevalence as an outcome of selected tobacco control measures -- L. Controlling the retail sales environment -- M. Sales and marketing of cigarettes on the internet -- N. Media campaigns and tobacco control -- O. Advocacy as a tobacco control strategy -- P. Special populations with higher rates of cigarette smoking.