The 2022 TCN Policy Recommendations Guide reflects 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.

The 2022 TCN Policy Recommendations Guide provides (1) guiding principles for advancing tobacco control policies and also for working with Tribal nations and (2) a summary of the changing tobacco control landscape, including the youth e-cigarette epidemic, information on health disparities and health equity, the roadblock of policy preemption, and addressing related issues such as marijuana, e-cigarette or vaping use-associated lung injury (EVALI), and COVID-19.