Tobacco Prevention Program

• Report a violation: Smoking in public places and workplace law
• Frequently Asked Questions: Smoking in public places and workplace law
• Smoke-free Housing
  The Smoke-Free Housing project seeks to prevent residents of multi-unit housing from being exposed to smoke in their homes.
• Are you experiencing secondhand smoke exposure at home and would like assistance? Please let us know by taking this survey.

Stop smoking

• The benefits of quitting
• Learn why nicotine is a powerful addiction
• Good reasons for quitting
• Five keys to quitting
• and more...

The Community Tobacco Cessation Partnership provides trainings on the Best Practice Guidelines in Treating Tobacco Use and Dependence as defined by the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services. Ongoing support includes technical assistance, nicotine patches (NRT), and cessation education materials.

Organizations within the Partnership serve populations who have the highest prevalence of smoking in King County and are capable of using these key strategies to reduce prevalence of tobacco use and health disparities caused by tobacco:

• Change organizational systems to screen for and treat tobacco use
• Change social norms of clients concerning tobacco use
• Provide and promote access to treatment
• Promote the Washington State Quitline

Read this Fact Sheet to find out more about trainings, and complete the Screening Form if your organization is interested joining the Partnership.

• State and local laws on tobacco
• Master Settlement Agreement

• Education
• Social sources of tobacco
• Laws and regulations

Tobacco Facts including information on secondhand smoke, what's in a cigarette, cigars and your health, smoking and various health conditions and more...

• Promoting smoke-free multiunit housing
  
  
• Trainings
  Public Health-Seattle & King County Tobacco Prevention provides professional trainings to help you – implement a comprehensive tobacco treatment component at health care faculty (primary care, family planning, dental, mental health, pharmacy), understand the tobacco issue in general, implement smoke free policy for your business or facility, help employees quit smoking, mitigate smoking issues in public housing, understand the new tobacco laws, secondhand smoke.
  
  
• Clinical Guidelines for Treating Nicotine Addiction (PPT)

A successful Tobacco Prevention Program must include youth involvement. Public Health's Tobacco Prevention Program is always looking for more youth volunteers to take part in various tobacco prevention activities.

• A brief history of tobacco
• Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids
• Tobacco Use Among U.S. Racial/Ethnic Minority Groups
• Washington's Tobacco Quit Line: Free Help for Tobacco Users
• and more...