Tobacco Prevention and Control
Tobacco Prevention and Control - Jim McCord, Acting Chair
Jim is the Tobacco Control Program Director at the SD Department of Health Tobacco Control Program
This program coordinates state efforts to prevent people from starting to use tobacco products, help current toabacco users quit, and reduce nonsmokers' exposure to second-hand smoke.
Workgroup Strategies and Outcomes
Strategy: Eliminate or reduce commercial tobacco use.
Outcomes
- Reduce the number of youth using commercial tobacco products.
- Baseline = 23.2% of students smoked cigarettes on one or more of the past 30 days (YRBS, 2009)
- Target = 20.5%
- Increase the number of people that quit using commercial tobacco products.
- Baseline = 17.5% of adults in South Dakota smoke (BRFSS, 2009)
- Target = 15%
- Reduce the number of people exposed to environmental tobacco smoke (second hand smoke).
