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The article presents a position paper from the American Public Health Association relative to the availability of nutrition status data to local health agencies in the U.S. The association encourages that there be adequate personnel and funding to make surveillance data collected by the Center for Disease Control available to all the states and territories of the U.S. It also encourages that there be enough funding and manpower to enable the administrators of the Health and Nutrition Examination Survey of the National Center for Health Statistics to formulate a method to make data available and more useful to local communities and develop future surveys to accomplish the purpose.

The article presents a survey which identifies the smoking behavior of American Public Health Association (APHA) members in the U.S. The association conducted the survey in order to determine how they could best contribute to the goal of decreasing cigarette smoking within the country. It has shown additional evidence that health professionals' own smoking behavior is related to their attitudes and actions in urging a change in the smoking behavior of those to whom they give care. In addition, the said survey presented the percentage of APHA members who ever tried to persuade someone to stop smoking.