Tobacco and Smoking

Funding levels for anti-tobacco efforts continue to decline despite the 1998 landmark settlement of $246 billion with tobacco companies. The MMS and its Committee on Student Health and Sports Medicine are committed to combating tobacco use.

• Tobacco Control and Local Boards of Health 
  Learn how to work with your town to ban the sale of tobacco products in health care facilities, including pharmacies.
• MMS and Alliance Anti-Tobacco Poster Contest 
  MMS sponsors an annual contest for children in grades 1 through 6, to promote awareness of the dangers of tobacco.
• Tobacco Free Mass
  MMS is a founding member of this coalition which advocates for policy that advances tobacco prevention and cessation to reduce tobacco use, and decrease the public's exposure to secondhand smoke.
• Massachusetts Healthy Air Coalition
  This coalition of health related organizations advocate for regulations and legislation to protect the air we breathe from tobacco smoke and other pollution.
  
• MMS Policy Compendium
  Read MMS policies on tobacco prevention and education. (.pdf, 160 pages) (Members-only content)