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Commercial Tobacco Prevention and Control

651-201-3535

866-901-8316 (toll-free)

tobacco@state.mn.us

Commercial Tobacco Prevention and Control Initiatives

Commercial tobacco use is still the single greatest preventable cause of death and disease in Minnesota. And while the state’s overall smoking rates are below national averages, certain Minnesota communities are still at risk and suffer disproportionately from commercial tobacco-related death and disease.

The Minnesota Comprehensive Tobacco Control Framework, 2022-2026 lays out an ambitious path to address commercial tobacco use. This framework serves as a guide for partners in Minnesota’s commercial tobacco prevention and control efforts. It outlines notable achievements in this work to-date and provides a roadmap for commercial tobacco prevention work in the future. This framework embraces goals and actions that lead with racial and health equity and builds upon the previous framework’s charge to use a health equity lens.

Read the Framework: Minnesota Comprehensive Tobacco Control Framework, 2022-2026 (PDF)

Youth E-cigarette Prevention and Cessation Initiative

The 2021 Minnesota Legislature appropriated funds for the Minnesota Department of Health to administer a new initiative to address youth e-cigarette and other commercial tobacco product use and cessation. The initiative includes community grants, statewide technical assistance and training, coordinated counter-marketing campaign, and surveillance and evaluation. The overall goal of this initiative is to reduce youth e-cigarette and commercial tobacco use in Minnesota by 25 percent by 2026.

Learn more: Youth E-cigarette Prevention and Cessation Initiative

Quit Partner™ Ambassadors

The Quit Partner Ambassadors Grant Program funds local community organizations to increase awareness and knowledge of Quit Partner programs in communities that are disproportionally impacted by commercial tobacco and may have been targeted by the tobacco industry.

Learn more: Quit Partner Ambassadors Grant Program

More Grant Programs

We provide grants to local public health agencies, community organizations, and tribal governments to help reduce the burden of tobacco within their own communities. Grantees work toward tobacco-free environments like smoke-free multi-unit housing, as well as reducing youth access to tobacco.

2015 Menthol Cigarette Intervention Grant

Menthol tobacco use is particularly common in the African American community. Nearly nine in ten African American smokers age 12 and older use menthol. In 2015, the Minnesota Department of Health awarded a two-year grant to Hennepin County, Saint Paul-Ramsey, Bloomington-Edina-Richfield, and Minneapolis Health Departments to better understand menthol tobacco use in the African American community. Local public health formed a close partnership with the African American Leadership Forum to engage the African American community on menthol through assessment and education.

Learn more about the 2015 Menthol Cigarette Intervention Grant.

Community Voices: Reducing Tobacco-Related Health Inequities

We conducted a statewide community input process to address the disproportionately higher rates of commercial tobacco use and secondhand smoke exposure among many of our communities.