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Strong Tobacco Control Program Requirements and Secure Funding Are Not Enough: Lessons From Florida

Year: 2012

Type: article

Abstract: Florida's Tobacco Pilot Program (TPP; 1998-2003), with its edgy Truth media campaign, achieved unprecedented youth smoking reductions and became a model for tobacco control programming. In 2006, 3 years after the TPP was defunded, public health groups restored funding for tobacco control programming by convincing Florida voters to amend their constitution. Despite the new program's strong legal structure, Governor Charlie Crist's Department of Health implemented a low-impact program. Although they secured the program's strong structure and funding, Florida's nongovernmental public health organizations did not mobilize to demand a high-impact program. Implementation of Florida's Amendment 4 demonstrates that a strong programmatic structure and secure funding are insufficient to ensure a successful public health program, without external pressure from nongovernmental groups.

Source: American Journal of Public Health

DOI: 10.2105/ajph.2011.300459

Authors: Allison Kennedy, Sarah Sullivan, Yogi Hendlin, Richard Barnes, Stanton Glantz

Institutions: University of California, San Francisco, Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies

Language: English

Topic: Smoking Behavior and Cessation

Subfield: Physiology

Field: Medicine

Domain: Health Sciences

SDGs: Peace, justice, and strong institutions, Good health and well-being

Open Access status: green

Funders: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Cancer Institute