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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Deal reached on tobacco firm corrective statements
By MICHAEL FELBERBAUM, AP Tobacco Writer RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — The nation’s tobacco companies and the federal government have reached an agreement on publishing corrective statements that say the companies lied about the dangers of smoking and requires them to disclose smoking’s health effects, including the death on average of 1,200 people a day. The agreement […]
Fitful Progress in the Antismoking Wars
By THE EDITORIAL BOARD, New York Times Fifty years ago this Saturday, on Jan. 11, 1964, a myth-shattering surgeon general’s report on smoking and health brushed aside years of obfuscation by tobacco companies and asserted, based on 7,000 scientific articles, that smoking caused lung cancer and was linked to other serious diseases. Those findings expanded […]
Local doctor’s view e-cigarettes
By Diane Miller, High Plains Reader, Fargo Sales of electronic cigarettes are expected to reach $1.7 billion this year. Many smokers are turning to this odor-free, vapor-releasing instrument as a safer alternative to cigarettes, but many health experts are skeptical. HPR turned to local e-cig expert Dr. Brody Maack from Family HealthCare to answer a […]
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 […]