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Public Meetings on Promoting Tobacco Use Cessation
Details on the Public Meetings
Guidelines for Providing Testimony
What do I do if I am unable to attend the meetings but would like to submit comments?
Please fax (202-205-8313) or E-mail jporras@cdc.gov
your comments to Jessica Porras in the Office on Smoking and Health before December 20, 2002.
What do I do if I would like to attend or provide testimony at the public meetings?
Telephone (202-205-8500), fax (202-205-8313), or E-mail jporras@cdc.gov
your name, title, organization name, address, and telephone number to Jessica Porras in the Office on Smoking and Health.
How long should I be prepared to speak?
Please be prepared to speak for 3–5 minutes and to answer questions from
subcommittee members. You can also submit additional comments that will be distributed to subcommittee members and posted on the CDC
Website at http://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/ICSH/index.htm.
Are there particular issues the subcommittee is interested in learning about?
The subcommittee’s report will consist of action steps to promote tobacco use cessation using evidence-based strategies.
The specific action steps will lead to both a Secretary’s initiative to
promote tobacco use cessation and to public-private partnerships to achieve this
goal. Strategies that the subcommittee may hear about at the public
hearings could include
- Consumer and community-focused strategies (including strategies to
increase consumer demand for cessation services, media campaigns, increasing the
unit price of tobacco products, and other evidence-based strategies to assist
tobacco users to quit).
- Health care professional education strategies (including
curriculum changes and continuing education)
- Health care delivery system changes and strategies (including
tobacco use status as a vital sign, provider reimbursement and incentives,
provider feedback mechanisms and other quality improvement strategies, and integration of evidence-based tobacco use treatments into the regular health
care delivery system).
- Insurance coverage strategies (including Medicaid, Medicare, and
private or commercial insurance).
- Enhanced access to evidence-based cessation services (including
removing barriers to accessing treatment, telephone quitlines, and research for new
treatments for tobacco dependence)
- Research strategies (including research on tobacco dependence
treatment, and research on tobacco cessation activities).
You can provide comments on any issues pertaining to evidence-based
strategies for promoting tobacco use cessation.
Your comments do not need to be limited to the examples above.
What do I do if I have additional
questions?
Contact Jessica Porras jporras@cdc.gov
in the Office on Smoking and Health at 202-205-8500.
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