instruction or training that encourages behaviors most likely to optimize health potentials through information about tobacco abuse; facilitates the prevention of tobacco abuse, frequently for those who are at risk; also includes instruction or training that increases the awareness and favorably influences the attitudes and knowledge about tobacco abuse on a personal or community basis; it also includes the training of medical personnel about tobacco abuse for prevention or treatment programs, for this type of tobacco abuse education postcoordinate with the appropriate health professional education term; this concept may overlap with TOBACCO ABUSE PREVENTION.