Partners identified the following strengths and challenges of New York’s tobacco control program: • The experience and leadership of the DOH TCP Director was a major strength of the program. • Clean indoor air efforts throughout the state were also a strength. • Partners...

Partners identified the following strengths and challenges of New York’s tobacco control program: • The experience and leadership of the DOH; TCP Director was a major strength of the program. • Clean indoor air efforts throughout the state were also a strength. •...

Executive Summary Raising the price of cigarettes is one of the most effective interventions to prevent and reduce cigarette use. Local, state, and federal governments can change the price of cigarettes by raising or lowering cigarette excise taxes and by implementing and enforcing minimum price...

Partners identified the following strengths and challenges of New York’s tobacco control program: • The experience and leadership of the DOH TCP Director was a major strength of the program. • Clean indoor air efforts throughout the state were also a strength. • Partners...

Strong policy changes, respectable funding, and new direction at the Department of Health Tobacco Control Program (DOH TCP) have contributed to the next phase of New York’s tobacco control efforts. New York has been able to pass strong legislation in the areas of product placement,...