FDA has required the manufacturers of the smoking cessation aids varenicline (Chantix) and bupropion (Zyban and generics) to add new Boxed Warnings and develop patient Medication Guides highlighting the risk of serious neuropsychiatric symptoms in patients using these products. Read More.
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The DC Tobacco Free Families Campaign (DCTFF), a partnership of the American Lung Association of DC, the DC Department of Health, and the American Cancer Society, has significantly increased awareness of the dangers of tobacco use to DC smokers, according to a recent report.
President Obama signing the FDA Bill into law in the Rose Garden.
Today, President Obama signed into law the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco 
Control Act, granting the Food and Drug Administration regulatory power over the manufacture, sale and marketing of tobacco products. This historic bill marks a turning point in the fight to keep Big Tobacco from luring kids into becoming the next generation of lifelong smokers. Learn More.
District Taxpayers to Save Millions in Tobacco-Related Health Care Costs
Smoking prevalence in the District is 20 percent lower today than three years ago, according to the latest Behavioral and Risk Factor Surveillance Survey (BRFSS). Current prevalence is down to 16 percent, an objective the DC Tobacco Free Families Campaign set out to reach by 2010.
This is good news for the District of Columbia, since nearly 20,000 DC residents quit smoking in the last 3 years, which will save the District $175 million in future tobacco-related health care expenses, including $20 million in Medicaid coverage
Every year, tobacco use kills 720 DC residents and accounts for $243 million in tobacco related health care expenditures to the District government. For the last 3 years, DCTFF has provided counseling and nicotine replacement therapy free to residents through the DC Quitline, 1-800-QUIT-NOW.
Washington, DC – The District of Columbia Department of Health (DOH) released a new music video “Nasty” about the many reasons not to use tobacco. The video, created as a teaching tool for teenagers, students from Anacostia Senior High School and was put together through a project of the DC Tobacco Free Families (DCTFF) Campaign, a partnership of DOH, the American Lung Association of DC and the American Cancer Society. DOH funds DCTFF with the District’s tobacco settlement funds. Read More.
