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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Working against tobacco
By Nick Smith, Bismarck Tribune Members of an interim legislative committee heard testimony about tobacco prevention efforts on reservations throughout the state Wednesday. The interim Health Services Committee heard from health department officials as well as tribal leaders and tobacco prevention coordinators from on and off the state’s reservations. Krista Fremming, Tobacco Prevention and Control Program […]
War on smoking, at 50, turns to teens: Our view
The Editorial Board, USATODAY Want kids to quit? Raise cigarette taxes. It works. The war on smoking, now five decades old and counting, is one of the nation’s greatest public health success stories — but not for everyone. As a whole, the country has made amazing progress. In 1964, four in ten adults in the […]
Drugs to Stop Smoking Better Given Together?
By Crystal Phend, Senior Staff Writer, MedPage Today Reviewed by F. Perry Wilson, MD, MSCE; Instructor of Medicine, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and Dorothy Caputo, MA, BSN, RN, Nurse Planner Doubling up on tobacco cessation drugs helped smokers quit at first, but didn’t significantly improve longer-term abstinence, a trial showed. Quit rates at 12 […]
Smoking Rates Still High Among the Mentally Ill
By John Gever, Deputy Managing Editor, MedPage Today Reviewed by Zalman S. Agus, MD; Emeritus Professor, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and Dorothy Caputo, MA, BSN, RN, Nurse Planner Smoking rates among Americans with mental illnesses didn’t budge from 2004 to 2011, a period during which rates in the rest of the population fell 14%, […]
Anti-smoking efforts have saved 8 million American lives
Liz Szabo, USA TODAY A new analysis says smoking rates have dropped from 42% in 1964 to 18% in 2012. Anti-tobacco efforts have saved 8 million lives in the 50 years since the publication of a landmark Surgeon General report, “Smoking and Health,” a new analysis shows. The 1964 report, which concluded that tobacco causes […]