2022 TCN Policy Recommendations Now Available.
Thursday, June 16, 2022
Posted by: Natalia Gromov
The TCN Policy
Recommendations reflect our Network’s priorities – it declares a vision and
direction for those policy and system changes that the TCN membership believes
are most important to preventing and reducing all forms of tobacco use and
eliminating secondhand smoke exposure, including aerosols and toxins emitted by
non-combustible products. Our guide aims to expand on policy recommendations
that address health disparities by including interventions that focus on
economic stability, education, the built environment, healthcare access, and
social/community context.
Since the release of the previous 2016 guide, much has changed in the tobacco
landscape. The 2022 TCN Policy Recommendations address many emerging issues in
the past six years, including the alarming youth e-cigarette epidemic, the new
subset of tobacco and nicotine products entering the market, and subsequently,
a reemergence of kid-friendly flavors. State and territorial tobacco control
programs found the previous versions helpful in providing program direction,
completing readiness assessments, developing their five-year National
State-Based Tobacco Control workplans, and educating their state’s leadership about
evidence-based tobacco control work.
In December of 2019, the TCN Policy Committee reviewed the 2016 Policy
Recommendations document to identify policies and strategies that were not
addressed in the 2016 Guide and prioritized the policies and strategies most
relevant for 2022. The TCN Policy Committee and our national partners with
specific policy expertise collaborated to develop a guide that incorporates the
most current policy recommendations and actions from state and local tobacco
control programs and the scientific community.
During the development of the 2022 TCN Policy Recommendations document, the
COVID-19 pandemic grew from what appeared to be a distant threat to a global
health crisis. Everyone involved in the development of this document worked
virtually while managing the very real impacts of the pandemic at home and in
public life. At the same time, national attention centered on the social,
political, and economic consequences of racism; leading the CDC to declare
racism a serious threat to public health. Recognizing racism as a fundamental
driver of health disparities, this 2022 TCN Policy Recommendations document
attempts to provide useful guidance to tobacco control professionals as they
seek to advance racial and health equity while pursuing evidence-based tobacco
policy interventions.
This document is possible because of the input from the members of the TCN. The
guide can also be accessed on the Resources tab
of the TCN website. We hope that this document is reflective of the
collaborative effort and will guide you in your work.
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