Tobacco Prevention & Control Program – PA Department of Health

The Division of Tobacco Prevention and Control is responsible for leading and coordinating strategic efforts aimed at preventing tobacco use among youth, promoting smoking cessation among youth and adults, protecting nonsmokers from environmental tobacco smoke (ETS), and eliminating tobacco-related health disparities. To accomplish these goals, Pennsylvania has created a statewide comprehensive tobacco-use prevention program. Some of the state level initiatives are: a telephone quitline, efforts to counter tobacco marketing, surveillance of tobacco sales to minors, promotion of clinical-practice guidelines for assessment and treatment of tobacco addiction, and program evaluation.