Current Partners
The Florida Tobacco Strategic Plan provides a unified vision and clear priorities to reduce the burden of commercial tobacco use and improve health across the state. While some strategies are already in motion, much of the work is just beginning and full of potential.
Together, we’re shaping a tobacco free future for all Floridians. We can reach our goals by working together, coordinating activities, and collaborating with communities most impacted by tobacco use.
Current Partners
The Florida Tobacco Strategic Plan provides a unified vision and clear priorities to reduce the burden of commercial tobacco use and improve health across the state. While some strategies are already in motion, much of the work is just beginning and full of potential.
Together, we’re shaping a tobacco free future for all Floridians. We can reach our goals by working together, coordinating activities, and collaborating with communities most impacted by tobacco use.
Florida Tobacco Strategic Plan Workgroups
Organizations aligned with the Florida Tobacco Strategic Plan are taking on expanded roles by joining priority-focused workgroups.
The Florida Tobacco Strategic Plan is supported by five dedicated workgroups, each focused on one of the plan’s priorities. These groups meet regularly to share ideas, tackle challenges, and coordinate efforts to advance the goals and objectives of the plan.
Hover over each workgroup name to view the organizations contributing to the plan.
Member Organizations
Promote healthy environments so that young people can achieve lifelong good health. 
Protect children and save lives from the #1 cause of preventable death: tobacco use. 
Working to protect the people of Florida from the dangers of tobacco. 
To protect, promote & improve the health of all people in Florida through integrated state, county, & community efforts. 
Eliminate addiction through prevention, advocacy, treatment, and recovery support. 
Protect our kids from the dangers of flavored e-cigarettes and the predatory practices of Big Tobacco. 
To develop, implement, and evaluate evidence-based approaches to strengthen community capacity for sustained disease prevention and health promotion. 
Mobilize, educate, and equip Florida youth to revolt against and de-glamorize the tobacco industry. Member Organizations
Improve the lives of people with cancer and their families through advocacy, research, and patient support, to ensure everyone has an opportunity to prevent, detect, treat, and survive cancer. 
Save lives by improving lung health and preventing lung disease. 
Protect all residents from exposure to harmful second and thirdhand smoke in their homes. 
Enable our students to lead and influence the next generation and beyond for economic, cultural, and societal benefit.
Working to protect the people of Florida from the dangers of tobacco. 
Represent and advocate for the interests of the Florida multifamily rental housing industry.
Work to protect the people of Florida from the dangers of tobacco.
Offer care coordination services to all pregnant women and infants regardless of their socioeconomic status to ensure that early care is directed to those families where there is the best chance of preventing or minimizing adverse outcomes.
To protect, promote and improve the health of all people in Florida through integrated state, county & community efforts.
Prevent disease of environmental origin. Member Organizations
The Florida State University College of Medicine will educate and develop exemplary physicians who practice patient-centered health care, discover and advance knowledge, and are responsive to community needs, especially through service to elder, rural, minority, and underserved populations. 
To improve the quality of healthcare by providing innovative solutions that enhance patient outcomes. 
To inspire, create, recruit, and sustain/retain a diverse and broad range of health professionals to practice in communities where the need is greatest. Member Organizations
Improve the lives of people with cancer and their families through advocacy, research, and patient support, to ensure everyone has an opportunity to prevent, detect, treat, and survive cancer. 
To be a relentless force for a world of longer, healthier lives.
Save lives by improving lung health and preventing lung disease. 
To promote Smokefree air as the National norm through Prevention education programs, information dissemination, technical assistance, and capacity building training.
Protect children and save lives from the #1 cause of preventable death: tobacco use.
Working to protect the people of Florida from the dangers of tobacco.
Protect our kids from the dangers of flavored e-cigarettes and the predatory practices of Big Tobacco. 
To improve overall community health through community-based wellness and prevention programs, including reducing the number of deaths from nicotine addiction and tobacco use, reducing the health consequences of inactivity and obesity, and supporting initiatives that promote healthy lifestyles through research, education, and prevention. Member Organizations
To expand and support academic and research programs by promoting the research, scholarly, creative and collaborative activities of faculty and students; enhancing the research infrastructure of the University to support the community in an ever-changing world; encouraging national and international partnerships for workforce development and commercialization of research endeavors; translating university discovery and innovations into viable business opportunities and economic development; and engaging our communities in mutually beneficial research, education and outreach programs. 
Identifies biological, social, and personality factors that lead to alcohol, e-cigarette, and drug use among adolescents and young adults. 
Inspires groundbreaking research and education through an academic environment that influences policy and promotes healthy living in communities near and far. 
Preserves, expands, and disseminates knowledge in the sciences, technology, arts, humanities, and professions. 
To contribute to the prevention and cure of cancer. 
Our mission is to create positive social impact by providing tailored data-centric solutions that move public health initiatives forward. 
RTI International is an independent, nonprofit research institute dedicated to improving the human condition. Our vision is to address the world's most critical problems with science-based solutions in pursuit of a better future. 
The University of Central Florida College of Medicine educates and inspires individuals to be exemplary physicians and scientists, leaders in medicine, scholars in discovery, and adopters of innovative technology to improve the health and well-being of all. Our patient-centered mission is achieved by outstanding medical care and services, groundbreaking research, and leading edge medical and biomedical education in an environment enriched by diversity 
To improve access to primary health care in north Florida’s medically underserved areas through academic-community-educational partnerships designed to recruit, train, and retain community-based health professionals. 
To bring scientific evidence into clinical practice and the community to improve population health and achieve health equity. 
To understand tobacco carcinogenesis, build cancer risk, stratification and develop preventive interventions with the ultimate research goal of facilitating cancer prevention as a key pillar to support effective cancer management. 
The Florida Statewide AHEC Consortium seeks to reduce health disparities across the state by increasing the diversity of the health care workforce, by providing interdisciplinary training opportunities for health professions students and clinicians and by enhancing the skills of practicing health professionals through continuing education.
Advancing the public’s health by developing a talented pool of public health leaders through education, research, and practice Workgroup Member Spotlight
Nicole Sutton, MPH, CPH, CHES
Professional Trajectory
I started my work in commercial tobacco control back in 2000 with Dr. Karen Glanz at University of Hawaiʻi Cancer Center. For 14 years I worked with Hawaiʻi’s statewide youth commercial tobacco prevention initiative. Throughout the years I’ve had the opportunity to also work with other organizations from the local to international levels specifically in commercial tobacco control. And while I have worked in other areas of public health, it is the work I’ve done in commercial tobacco control that I am most proud of.
I think I was in the right place at the right time to be part of a powerful wave that has changed the course of public health. At the time when I started, the Master Settlement Agreement had just occurred. It was an exciting time to be a young person passionate about the wellbeing of my community AND also with the skills needed to mobilize for lasting change.
What do you enjoy most about your work?
I truly value the opportunity to work alongside the young people involved in Vapes on Campus. They are experts on what is happening with vaping and nicotine use among their generation and strategic in helping to shape the way forward using both research and their unique perspectives. I am inspired and energized by them daily!
How does your work intersect with the FTSP?
USF Center for Social Marketing is actively working to address college student vaping and nicotine use in Florida. Our work is helping to bridge knowledge gaps that can establish promising strategies to reduce use while also creating a pipeline for the next generation of commercial tobacco control leaders. We see our work as consistent with many of the goals of the current 5-year FTSP while also contributing to the sustainability of Florida’s tobacco control legacy that has saved countless lives and billions of dollars in our state healthcare costs.
Benefits of being involved with the FTSP workgroup
Serving on the workgroups allows us to see how the individual work we are doing is supporting the collective impact on the health and wellbeing of the people of Florida. Feeling connected to that greater impact keeps me motivated to continue to do our individual work with the highest integrity.
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Join the Movement for a Healthier Florida
Your voice and experience can directly shape the strategies that guide this statewide plan. Workgroups bring together committed partners who share ideas, solve problems, and drive real progress in communities affected by tobacco use.
Add your perspective and help strengthen the work that is already creating change.