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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Cigarette ads from the 20th century
Fifty years ago, on January 11, 1964, U.S. Surgeon General Luther Terry issued a landmark report on the negative health risks caused by smoking tobacco. To view cigarette ads from the 20th century, click on the link below: http://www.cnn.com/2014/01/10/health/gallery/historic-cigarette-ads/
Tobacco companies will say they lied, via advertising
Liz Szabo, USA TODAY The nation’s tobacco companies and the Justice Department have reached an agreement on publishing corrective statements that say the companies lied about the dangers of smoking. Tobacco companies are a step closer today to putting out “corrective statements” about their history of defrauding the American public by hiding the dangers of […]
The 50-year war on smoking
By The Times editorial board, Los Angeles Times The 1964 U.S. Surgeon General’s report on smoking — the first official acknowledgment by the federal government that smoking kills — was an extraordinarily progressive document for its time. It swiftly led to a federal law that restricted tobacco advertising and required the now-familiar warning label on […]
Tobacco Companies Agree on Ads Admitting Smoking Lies
By Andrew Zajac, Bloomberg News Altria Group Inc. (MO), Reynolds American Inc. (RAI) and other tobacco companies agreed with the U.S. on how they will publicize admissions that they deceived the American public on the dangers of smoking. The companies and the Justice Department resolved that “corrective statements” will appear in the print and online editions of newspapers and on television […]
The war on smoking is working — and should continue
By Editorial Board, Washington Post FIFTY YEARS on, the war on smoking can look back and claim a huge victory. Nearly half of the country used to smoke. Now less than a fifth of the country does. Some say that public health advocates have done enough; let those who still choose to light up, disproportionately from […]