Every year, we learn more about how devastating tobacco can be to the human body and how damaging secondhand smoke is to those around it. In fact, 28,600 adults in Florida die from smoking (443,000 deaths a year nationwide) every year. For every person who dies, another 20 suffer from one or more serious illnesses from smoking.
Read MoreThe Florida Youth Tobacco Survey (FYTS) tracks indicators of tobacco use and exposure to secondhand smoke among Florida public middle and high school students and provides data for monitoring and evaluating tobacco use among youth for the Florida Department of Health’s Bureau of Tobacco Prevention and Control.
Read MoreThis program coordinates and assists state and local efforts to prevent people from starting to use tobacco, help current tobacco users quit, and reduce nonsmokers' exposure to secondhand and thirdhand smoke.
Read MoreThe California Tobacco Control Branch leads statewide and local health programs, services and activities that promote an environment truly-free of tobacco.
Read MoreTobacco companies hook our kids with enticing flavors like gummy bear, cotton candy, mango and “smooth menthol.” Maryland legislators can protect our kids by ending the sale of all flavored tobacco products – including flavored e-cigarettes, cigars and menthol cigarettes.
Read MoreMany youth are now using and becoming addicted to electronic vape products, which often contain nicotine and other chemicals that harm the developing adolescent brain. These chemicals are linked to other adverse health conditions, including serious lung injuries.
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Your choice to use tobacco may prevent you from doing the things you want to do in the future. The sooner you quit, the better off you will be.
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At My Life, My Quit we share the truth about nicotine, vaping and other tobacco products. If you decide you want to quit, we're here to help you do it successfully. It's YOUR LIFE and we're here to help you live it YOUR WAY.
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The first-of-its-kind program to help young people quit vaping, This is Quitting gives youth and young adults the motivation and support they need to ditch JUUL and other e-cigarettes. Learn more about how it works and the additional resources available for parents of young vapers and for adults who want to quit.
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Join the American Heart Association, Teens, and Schools in Calling Out Big Tobacco and Big Vape on their lies.
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E-cigarettes are hooking a new generation on nicotine—putting millions of kids at risk and threatening progress in reducing youth tobacco use. It’s a nationwide epidemic fueled by thousands of kid friendly flavors. And it’s getting worse.
Read MoreThe Facts About E-Cigarettes and Vaping. Women who are pregnant, youth, young adults, or adults who are not currently using tobacco products should not start vaping or using e-cigarettes.
Read MoreThe Dangers of E-cigarettes: As the use of traditional cigarettes has declined in recent years, many people are experimenting with e-cigarette products also known as; vape pens, vaporizers, hookah pens, tank system, mods, Juul, and electronic nicotine delivery systems (ENDS), without being aware of the risks and the potential for future nicotine addiction.
Read MoreRecognizing the dangers of vaping, this best practices document was developed by Somerset County school district administrators in collaboration with the Somerset County Office of the Executive County Superintendent of Schools, Office of the Prosecutor, and the County Health Office.
Read MorePallone’s Reversing Youth Tobacco Epidemic Act Advances in House: The Reversing the Youth Tobacco Epidemic Act would prohibit all flavored tobacco products, including e-cigarettes, increase the minimum age for purchasing tobacco products to 21, ban certain non-face-to-face sales for tobacco products, and protects kids from the marketing of tobacco products.
Read MoreHealth Education & Resources: The Health Education & Promotion Program is responsible for providing educational programs and various interventions to promote awareness of healthy lifestyles and behaviors among children and adults who work and live in Morristown.
Read MoreALERT: Contaminants found in vaping products have been linked to a national outbreak of lung injury — 2,506 hospitalized cases of e-cigarette or vaping associated lung injury (EVALI) and 54 confirmed deaths in 27 states and the District of Columbia.
Read MoreThe Toll Of Tobacco In New Jersey: Smoking kills more people than alcohol, AIDS, car crashes, illegal drugs, murders, and suicides combined — and thousands more die from other tobacco-related causes — such as fires caused by smoking (more than 1,000 deaths/year nationwide) and smokeless tobacco use.
Read MoreSmoking & Tobacco Use: Extinguishing the Tobacco Epidemic in New Jersey. Cigarette smoking remains the leading cause of preventable death and disability in the United States, despite a significant decline in the number of people who smoke.Over 16 million Americans have at least one disease caused by smoking. This amounts to $170 billion in direct medical costs that could be saved every year if we could prevent youth from starting to smoke and help every person who smokes to quit.
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