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.
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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!
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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.
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Affordable Care Act: Smoking sends health premiums higher
BY FRANCINE KNOWLES Staff Reporter If you light up, prepare to get burned with higher premiums when buying insurance in the new health insurance marketplaces. Under rules of the Affordable Care Act, in Illinois and most other states, insurers can charge smokers and other tobacco users as much as 50 percent more on their premiums […]
Cotton Candy and Atomic Fireball flavored electronic cigarettes are forging a new pathway to addiction, death and disease
By: Ross P. Lanzafame, American Lung Association National Board Chair Harold Wimmer, American Lung Association National President and CEO E-cigarette use among middle school children has doubled in just one year. Last month, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced that e-cigarette use also doubled among high school students in one year, and […]
Poll: Most Nebraska voters support increasing cigarette tax
By KEVIN O’HANLON / Lincoln Journal Star A majority of Nebraska voters favor increasing the state’s cigarette tax and using the money to provide property tax relief and smoking-cessation programs, according to a poll released Friday. “Nebraskans have made it clear they are ready for a tobacco tax increase,” said David Holmquist of the American […]
Big Tobacco Invests in E-Cigarettes. Should You?
By RICHARD SATRAN U.S. sales of electronic cigarettes are expected to jump past $1 billion this year, and where there’s growth like that you can bet someone is making money – whether it’ll be new companies or Big Tobacco remains to be seen. While still a tiny fraction of total tobacco sales, the market is already […]
Costly cigarettes and smoke-free homes: Both effectively reduce tobacco consumption
Researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine say high-priced cigarettes and smoke-free homes effectively reduce smoking behaviors among low-income individuals – a demographic in which tobacco use has remained comparatively high. Writing in the October 17, 2013 issue of theAmerican Journal of Public Health, principal investigator John P. Pierce, PhD, professor […]