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Center for Tobacco Cessation aims to blow out smoking - Educational Opportunities - Brief Article

A one-of-a-kind clearinghouse on ways to help people quit smoking has been launched by the American Cancer Society and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, according to a March 19, 2002, news release from the society. The Center for Tobacco Cessation will work with national partners to provide practical, science-based information to smokers, health care providers, insurers, and policy makers to increase the demand for and delivery of effective tobacco cessation treatments.

According to the release, there are more than 45 million adult and six million youth tobacco users in the United States. Smoking is the leading preventable cause of death, causing more than 430,000 deaths per year. Smoking is estimated to account for more than $50 billion per year in health care costs and another $50 billion in lost productivity.

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Research has shown that medication treatment and counseling are effective and greatly increase tobacco users' success at smoking cessation. The American Cancer Society believes that helping smokers quit now will mean far fewer new cases of cancer and deaths from cancer in the future, according to the release. The work of the center is supported by the American Cancer Society and a two-year grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

The American Cancer Society and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Launch 'Center for Tobacco Cessation Policy' (news release, Washington, DC: American Cancer Society, March 19, 2002) http://www.cancer.org (accessed 4 April 2002).

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