Table 2

Tobacco control programmes/interventions: goals, target audience and components

Programme goals
Programme/intervention components
at two levels
Promote tobacco-free culturePrevent initiationEliminate second-hand smoke exposureIncrease tobacco cessationEliminate disparities in tobacco use treatment
Public health interventions: society (government and industry); community (eg, healthcare providers, schools and educators, housing complexes and workplaces/retailers)
 Policy interventions
  •  Tobacco use restrictions such as bans in restaurants, work places, parks and cars with child passengers

  •  Multiuse housing bans

PH1PH2PH3PH4PH5
 Communication interventions
 Mass media campaigns:
 Harms of tobacco use,
 Availability of state QuitLine counselling,
  •  Self-help programmes on radio, TV, web, blogs, billboards and leaflets


 Promoting access to tobacco cessation medications
 Education in schools, workplaces and public spaces
PH6PH7PH8PH9PH10
 Provider/teacher education
 Training for physician, nurse, pharmacist, dentist and teacher
 Electronic/written prompts to check tobacco use status
PH11PH12PH13PH14PH15
 Tobacco screening/other intervention guidelinePH16PH17PH18PH19PH20
Individual interventions: family, individual adults, children and youth
 Communication interventions
 Text messages for quitting
 Web-based media literacy education
I21I22I23I24I25
 Behavioural therapies and medication
 Brief advice from healthcare provider-3 or 5 A’s
 Provider referral to QuitLine
 Multisession QuitLine counselling
 Face-to-face group and individual counselling
 Food and drug administration-approved medications and NRT
 App and web-based programmes
I26I27I28I29I30
 Cessation programmes for special populations
 Homeless people, smokers with mental health and/or substance use disorders, cancer survivors, ethnic minorities and pregnant women
I31I32I33I34I35
  • NRT, nicotine replacement therapy.