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Tobacco Prevention

Program Goals:

  • Prevent initiation of tobacco use among youth
  • Promote tobacco cessation among adults and youth
  • Eliminate exposure to environmental tobacco smoke
  • Identify and eliminate tobacco-related disparities

The health district tobacco prevention and control program works to raise awareness utilizing counter-marketing strategies, healthcare provider education, school and youth-based programs, work-site campaigns, and partners with local coalitions and community groups that address tobacco issues.

Events:

  • Great American Smokeout - Third Thursday of November. Partnership with Boise State University with an on-campus interactive booth to encourage smoker's to quit for 1 day.

Worksite:

"Toxics and Tobacco" is a free 30-minute interactive presentation which encourages employees (both tobacco users and non-users) to look at their current exposure to tobacco (including secondhand smoke) and to make choices that impact their health in a positive way. Contact us to schedule a presentation at your worksite.

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Healthcare Providers:

Utilizing the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Clinical Practice Guideline on Treating Tobacco Use and Dependence, healthcare providers and their staff receive current information on assessing tobacco use, medications, and cessation resources. Contact us to schedule a presentation at your office.

Secondhand Smoke - Smokefree Home Pledge:

There is no safe amount of secondhand smoke. Children are more likely to have lung problems, ear infections, and sever asthma from being around smoke. Secondhand smoke causes heart disease and lung cancer. What can you do? Make your environment smoke-free. Learn more and take the smoke-free home pledge at www.epa.gov/smokefree

Youth:

Teens Against Tobacco Use (T.A.T.U.) is a youth empowerment program teaching teens to fight back against tobacco use. The overall goal of T.A.T.U. is to help our youth remain tobacco free. Teens, as teachers and role models, present tobacco prevention messages they develop to younger children. T.A.T.U. teens also participate in advocacy events such as the Western Idaho Fair Tobacco Free Day and Drug Free Idaho's “YouthFest”.

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