Resources

Tobacco Control Policy

• Mississippi Department of Health
• Office of Tobacco Control
• Mississippi Health Policy Research Center
• Center for Mississippi Health Policy
• The Partnership for a Healthy Mississippi
• CDC Smoking and Tobacco Use
• AAP Julius B. Richmond Center of Excellence for Children
• American Lung Association of Mississippi
• Mississippi Health Advocacy Program
• Communities For A Clean Bill Of Health
• Mississippi Tobacco Control Network
• ACT Center
• American Cancer Society
• Smoke-free Mississippi
• Mississippi Chapter of the American Heart Association
• Legacy Tobacco Documents Library
• Emerging Tobacco Products – from the American Legacy Foundation

Tobacco Data Sources

• CDC State Tobacco Activities Tracking and Evaluation (STATE) System
• Tobacco Free Kids
• Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System
• Youth Tobacco Survey
• Behavior Risk Factor Surveillance System
• Tobacco Use Supplement
• Mississippi Kids Count
• Snapshots: Mississippi’s Health Data Source
• Mississippi Tobacco Survey Data Presentation (PPT)

Resources for Smoke-Free Ordinances

• Model Smoke-Free Ordinance Grant Program (PDF 226 KB)
• Smoke-Free Legislation and the Social Climate of Secondhand Smoke in Mississippi, July 2009 Update (PDF 237KB) The California EPA Air Resources Board recently declared secondhand smoke to be a toxic air contaminant, putting this byproduct of cigarette smoking in the same category as diesel exhaust, and arsenic. Secondhand smoke contains more than 4,000 chemical compounds. At least 43 of these compounds have been demonstrated to cause cancer in humans and animals (Brownson, Eriksen, Davis, & Warner, 1997). Learn more about smoke-free legislationn.
• Support for Smoke-free Legislation in Mississippi (PDF 72KB)
• Smoke-free Legislation and the Social Climate of Secondhand Smoke in Mississippi Powerpoint Slides, July 2009 Update (PDF 267KB)
• Americans for Nonsmokers’ Rights Implementing Your New Smokefree Law (PDF)
• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Making Your Workplace Smokefree (PDF)
• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Save Lives, Save Money, Make Your Business Smoke-Free(PDF)
• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Secondhand Smoke: what it means to you (PDF)
• Tobacco Control Legal Consortium Legal Authority to Regulate Smoking and Common Threats and Challenges: 2009 (PDF)
• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Evaluation Toolkit for Smoke-Free Policies
• Tobacco Technical Assistance Consortium Developing Smokefree Implementation Regulations
• Americans for Nonsmokers’ Rights Smokefree Lists, Maps, and Data
• Americans for Nonsmokers’ Rights Drafting an Ordinance

Smoke-free Legislation Archives

• House Bill 184: Smoke Free Air Act of 2009
• Senate Bill 2724: Smoke-Free Air Act of 2009
• Senate Bill 3139: Smoking in a motor vehicle with a child passenger
• House Bill 165: Tobacco tax and sales tax; increase excise tax on tobacco, reduce sales tax on certain food and revise diversion to municipalities
• HB 364 – 82 cent increase to general fund
• HB 167 – Tobacco Use by Minors; misdemeanor; $100 fine
• HB 394 – Restrict tobacco use with county prisoners
• HB 411 – Violation of non-smoking policy is misdemeanor
• HB 855 – Prohibit smoking at public venues for youth
• HB 478 – Tobacco tax revenue to municipalities used for tobacco prevention only
• HB 659 – Pilot program to ban smoking at correctional facilities
• HB 780 – Cigarette tax on non-settling manufacturers
• HB 1046 -Tobacco products; revise minimum age to purchase to 21
• SB 2008 – Expand duties of Office of Tobacco Control
• SB 2545 – Allow smoking in gaming establishments, bingo parlors (Preemption)
• SB 2116 – Smoke-free with gaming and restaurant bar exemptions (Preemption)