Table 2.

Tobacco control programmes/interventions: goals, target audience and components

	Programme goals
Programme/intervention components at two levels	Promote tobacco-free culture	Prevent initiation	Eliminate second-hand smoke exposure	Increase tobacco cessation	Eliminate disparities in tobacco use treatment
Public health interventions: society (government and industry); community (eg, healthcare providers, schools and educators, housing complexes and workplaces/retailers)
Policy interventions  Tobacco use restrictions such as bans in restaurants, work places, parks and cars with child passengers  Multiuse housing bans	PH1	PH2	PH3	PH4	PH5
Communication interventions  Mass media campaigns:  Harms of tobacco use,  Availability of state QuitLine counselling,  Self-help programmes on radio, TV, web, blogs, billboards and leaflets  Promoting access to tobacco cessation medications  Education in schools, workplaces and public spaces	PH6	PH7	PH8	PH9	PH10
Provider/teacher education  Training for physician, nurse, pharmacist, dentist and teacher  Electronic/written prompts to check tobacco use status	PH11	PH12	PH13	PH14	PH15
Tobacco screening/other intervention guideline	PH16	PH17	PH18	PH19	PH20
Individual interventions: family, individual adults, children and youth
Communication interventions  Text messages for quitting  Web-based media literacy education	I21	I22	I23	I24	I25
Behavioural therapies and medication  Brief advice from healthcare provider-3 or 5 A’s  Provider referral to QuitLine  Multisession QuitLine counselling  Face-to-face group and individual counselling  Food and drug administration-approved medications and NRT  App and web-based programmes	I26	I27	I28	I29	I30
Cessation programmes for special populations  Homeless people, smokers with mental health and/or substance use disorders, cancer survivors, ethnic minorities and pregnant women	I31	I32	I33	I34	I35

NRT, nicotine replacement therapy.