Preventing Youth and Young Adults from Starting to Use Tobacco

Parents can make a difference! Each day, more than 3,500 kids try their first cigarette; and each day about 1,000 other kids, under 18 years of age, become new regular, daily smokers. That is more than 350,000 new underage daily smokers each year – and roughly one-third of them will eventually die prematurely from smoking-caused disease.

Youth Smoking:

http://tobaccofreekids.org/research/factsheets/pdf/0002.pdf

http://tobaccofreekids.org/research/factsheets/pdf/0127.pdf

www.unleashyourc.com

Click Here to see: HOW PARENTS CAN PROTECT THEIR KIDS FROM BECOMING ADDICTED SMOKERS. (Link to PDF document)

http://tobaccofreekids.org/research/factsheets/pdf/0152.pdf

Creating a Tobacco Free School Policy:

http://www.tobaccofreemaine.org/channels/educators/documents/SchoolPolicy.pdf

http://tobaccofreekids.org/research/factsheets/pdf/0153.pdf

Motivate and Assist Tobacco Users to Quit: Quitting tobacco will improve your health, your finances, your self-esteem and your everyday life – immediately and over the long term – in ways you may never have imagined.

Maine Tobacco HelpLine – Supportive, confidential, free phone support for those thinking about quitting or who want to quit using tobacco. TEEN Helpline # 1-800-NEW-CHOICE

http://www.becomeanex.org/ - EX is a free quit plan that will help you stop smoking. Its not about why to quit, its all about HOW. Created by medical experts and tested by real smokers.

Quitting Smoking: Why To Quit and How To Get Help – From the National Cancer Institute – health problems caused by smoking, immediate and long-term benefits of quitting smoking, and other common questions associated with smoking, health, treatment medications, and how to quit.

Smoking Cessation Health Center – Get strategies and skills for quitting, and plan your quit strategy by using the U.S. Surgeon General’s five keys for quitting.

Helping a Smoker Quit: Do’s and Don’ts – Don’t feel helpless – The American Cancer Society provides tips for friends and family to helped loved ones through the process of quitting.

American Lung Association – Answers to questions about quitting, what happens to the body when you quit, and practical solutions to help you quit.

Eliminate Involuntary Exposure to Secondhand Smoke

Communities make a difference! All indoor public places in Maine are free from secondhand smoke. Residents and visitors enjoy clean, healthy air in train stations, airports, information and visitor centers, restaurants, malls, and movie theaters. Our children are protected against secondhand smoke in cars, in indoor spaces, and in undesignated outdoor areas. Signs around Maine and in high-traffic tourist areas proudly promote the state’s smoke-free status and support our goal of making Maine the healthiest state in the nation.

Surgeon Generals Report on Secondhand Smoke: http://www.surgeongeneral.gov/news/speeches/06272006a.html

Click here for a summary of Maine Tobacco Laws: http://tobaccofreemaine.org/breathe_easy/documents/25-100-09LawSummary.pdf

How to create a workplace smoking policy:

http://www.healthymainepartnerships.org/pdfs/Good_Work/section_1_3.pdf

Creating a Policy in Your Community

The Tobacco-Free Community Recreation Manual provides local health advocates, municipal officials, recreation department board members, and recreation staff with the tools to develop comprehensive anti-tobacco policies for local recreation programs. It provides information about why sending a clear message to youth and breaking the connection between tobacco and recreation is important for prevention, and helps communities create Tobacco-Free policies. It also supplies presentation materials, resources and action steps toward achieving these goals.

To get your copy of The Tobacco-Free Community Recreation Manual:

http://ptmstore.org/index.php/tobacco-free-athletes

Special Populations

• LGBT
• Native Americans
•  Chronic Disease
        Patients
• Behavioral Health
• Pregnant Women
• New Americans & Immigrants
• Low Income / Education
•  Gender Differences and
        Tobacco
• Young Adults
• Youth

For Resources on Special Populations:

http://www.tobaccofreemaine.org/channels/special_populations/