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The 2021 Health Value Dashboard found that tobacco use is one of the key factors contributing to Ohio’s poor performance on health value. Ohio ranks in the bottom quartile for both adult smoking and secondhand smoke exposure for children and analysis of Dashboard data found a strong correlation between a state’s adult smoking rate and its health value rank.
Featured publication
Click here to view “Tobacco, alcohol and health series: Health impacts of tobacco use in Ohio.”
Publications
- Tobacco, Alcohol and Health Series: Implications for Future Cannabis Policy (December 2021)
- Tobacco, Alcohol and Health Series: Health Impacts of Excessive Alcohol Use in Ohio (December 2021)
- Tobacco, Alcohol and Health Series: Health Impacts of Tobacco Use in Ohio (December 2021)
- A Closer Look at Tobacco Use and Health Value (April 2017)
- Policy Options Fact Sheet: State policy Options to Reduce Tobacco Use and Secondhand Smoke Exposure (March 2017)
- Mapping Accountability to Improve Ohio’s Performance on Tobacco Use
- The State of Tobacco Use Prevention and Cessation in Ohio
- Guide to Improving Health Value
- Navigating Sources of Evidence
- State Health Improvement Plan (The Ohio Department of Health contracted with HPIO to develop the 2020-2022 State Health Improvement Plan)
Resources
- Ohio Health Value Review (most quarterly edition includes tobacco resources)
Events
- Addressing Addiction: Policy Prescriptions to Prevent Opiate Abuse and Tobacco Use (September 2017)
- Breaking the Addiction: Policy Pathways Toward Effective Tobacco Cessation and Prevention for All Ohioans