Our Organization
The mission of Tobacco Free North Dakota is to improve and protect the public health of all North Dakotans by reducing the serious health and economic consequences of tobacco use, the state's number one cause of preventable disease and death.
More
More
Partners
With reductions in funding and the closure of BreatheND (with the repeal of 2008’s Measure 3), the support of our Partners and Members is crucial for us to be able to continue our fight for North Dakota’s first tobacco free generation!
More
More
Coalition
Tobacco Free North Dakota is focused on building partnerships with individuals who and organizations which support tobacco prevention efforts and policy changes that protect the public from the dangers of tobacco use.
More
More
Maryland cigarette sales down 17% since tobacco tax hike, report says
Sarah Gantz, Reporter-Baltimore Business Journal The number of cigarette packs sold in Maryland has declined 17 percent since 2008, according to a new report released Wednesday by a health care advocacy group. A total of 200 million packs of cigarettes were sold in Maryland in fiscal 2012, down from 243 million in 2008, according to data […]
City Council to Vote on Raising Cigarette Purchase Age
In the latest move to snuff out smoking in New York, the City Council could vote Wednesday to bar anyone under the age of 21 from buying cigarettes and e-cigarettes. Under federal law, no one under 18 can buy tobacco anywhere in the country, but some states and localities have raised it to 19. Public health advocates […]
Lawmakers updated on efforts to fight tobacco use
By Nick Smith BISMARCK, N.D. _ A statewide effort to fight tobacco use is spending about $55.60 on each North Dakota adult who uses tobacco products, the director of the agency behind that effort says. State lawmakers got an update Wednesday from Jeanne Prom, the executive director of the North Dakota Center for Prevention and Control […]
Conceal and carry: kids with e-cigarettes
By Annie Andrews KEPR-TV, Pasco, WA KEPR went to Kennewick High School to talk candidly with your kids; they say electronic cigarettes and pocket vaporizers are in their peers’ pockets and right under parents’ noses. What you need to know about this growing trend. “Is it here in the Tri-Cities,” KEPR asked a high school student, “yeah, definitely,” […]
Latest Research on Tobacco Use and Health Care Cost Has Global Implications
By Derek Yach, Executive Director, The Vitality Institute, and a former executive director of the World Health Organization (WHO), and Katie Tryon, M.D., Clinical Director, The Vitality Institute. This month’s articles on health care costs and tobacco control in the South African Medical Journal (SAMJ) have far reaching implications beyond the shores of South Africa. The latest Global […]