Extensive programs for the public, health care professionals, and provider systems already exist to prevent and treat the consequences of tobacco use. However, tobacco control programs may not be aware of the latest statistics and treatments for speciic tobacco-related illnesses, including COPD. In turn, COPD stakeholders, practitioners, and decision makers may not be aware of current public health eforts in tobacco control. here are also extensive networks of health care professionals, stakeholders, and other constituents for co-morbid diseases and conditions of COPD such as asthma, heart disease, stroke, and diabetes. Many states have conducted state COPD summits and formed COPD.
