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Tobacco

nutrition icon The Healthy Hawai‘i Evaluation Team provides evaluation services and support for tobacco-related projects that focus on tobacco prevention, education, and cessation programs. The tobacco prevention and control community of Hawai‘i has adopted the four main goals developed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to serve as a guiding framework for comprehensive tobacco control programs.

These include:

  1. Advance health equity by identifying and eliminating commercial tobacco product-related inequities and disparities
  2. Prevent initiation of commercial tobacco use among youth and young adults
  3. Promote quitting tobacco among young people and adults
  4. Eliminate exposure to secondhand smoke

HHET evaluation work focuses on policies, systems and environmental changes that relate to decreasing tobacco use among five main priority populations:

  • Native Hawaiians
  • Youth
  • Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender
  • Low Socioeconomic Status
  • Individuals with Behavioral Health Conditions

Tobacco evaluation projects are conducted across the four primary sectors of Community Design and Access, Education, Health Care, and Worksite.

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Identifying best practices in implementation and enforcement of flavored tobacco product restrictions and bans: Lessons from experts.

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Note: HHET members at the time of project participation are listed in bold.