Strategies

Match disadvantaged or at-risk youth with volunteer mentors in school or community settings

Offer programs to help individuals without a high school diploma or its equivalent achieve a high school equivalency credential

Create a school culture of high behavioral and academic expectations, with intense tutoring, increased teacher performance feedback, lengthened instruction time, and health care services

Use counseling, informational materials, etc. to inform smokers and non-smokers of the harms of secondhand smoke and encourage them to implement home smoking bans