NIOSH Current Intelligence Bulletin: Promoting Health and Preventing Disease and Injury through Workplace Tobacco Policies

NIOSH has prepared a current draft CIB: Promoting Health and Preventing Disease and Injury through Workplace Tobacco Policies for anticipated dissemination during the 50th anniversary year of the Surgeon General's first report on the health consequences of smoking published in 1964. The draft CIB reflects a "strategy integrating occupational safety and health protection with health promotion to prevent worker injury and illness and to advance health and well-being", embodied by NIOSH in a recently launched Total Worker Health™(TWH™).

To view the notice and related materials, visit http://www.regulations.gov and enter CDC-2014-0013 in the search field and click "Search."

Public Comment Period

Comments will be accepted until 11:59 p.m. EST on September 15, 2014.

Written comments, identified by CDC-2014-0013 and docket number NIOSH-274, may be submitted by any of the following methods:

• Federal rulemaking portal: Follow the instructions for submitting comments.

  Instructions: All submissions received must include the agency name and docket number. All relevant comments, including any personal information provided, will be posted without change to http://www.regulations.gov

• Mail: National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
  NIOSH Docket Office
  1090 Tusculum Avenue
  MS C-34
  Cincinnati, OH 45226-1998