Sample Social Media Posts – Cervical Cancer Awareness Month

The Great Plains Tribal Chairmen’s Health Board has offered sample social media posts that they will be utilizing through January’s Cervical Cancer Awareness Month. Facebook Cervical cancer screening and HPV vaccination are two important ways to #PreventCervicalCancer, check out this video on why women in the Great Plains are getting screened for cervical cancer.  (Visual […]

Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians Smokefree Homes Toolkit

Citation: Sault Tribe Health Services.  Your Family Deserves a Smoke-free Home:  Facilitating Adoption of a Smoke-free Housing Policy for a Tribal Housing Authority — An Implementation Guide.  Sault Ste. Marie:  Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians; 2011
Be there for your grandchildren, don't smoke.

Tips from Former Smokers – Tlingit Language Poster

The Partnership for a Tobacco-Free Southeast at the SouthEast Alaska Regional Health Consortium utilized poster from the CDC’s “Tips From Former Smokers” campaign to translate this poster into Tlingit language, featuring Alaska Native, Michael. The Tlingit to English translation is: “Be there for your grandchildren, don’t smoke.” The graphics are free to share and use […]

CDC, states update number of cases of hospitalized e-cigarette, or vaping, product use associated lung injury (EVALI)

From CDC. December 12, 2019 CDC today announced the updated number of cases* of e-cigarette, or vaping, product use associated with lung injury (EVALI). *As of December 4, 2019, CDC will only report hospitalized EVALI cases, and EVALI deaths regardless of hospitalization status. Patients with Lung Injury As of December 10, 2019, 2,409 cases of […]

PODCAST: Commercial tobacco: smoking your last cigarette

Tammi Meissner, SEARHC Health Educator, appeared on Native America Calling Podcast https://www.nativeamericacalling.com/thursday-november-21-2019-commercial-tobacco-smoking-your-last-cigarette/ Native Americans have the highest prevalence of cigarette smoking in the country, according to reports by the Center for Disease Control and Prevention. As a result, they also have a higher risk of developing tobacco-related illnesses, like heart disease and lung cancer. The […]

Hannahville Indian Community Receives E-cigarette Project Support

The Superior Health Foundation has granted funding to the Inter-Tribal Council of Michigan to support the Anishinaabe E-cigarette and JUUL Health Education Project in the Hannahville Indian Community. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the use of e-cigarettes is unsafe for kids, teens and young adults.  Ninety- nine percent of e-cigarettes contain […]

GW Cancer Center: New Cancer Survivorship Care Tools

Shared from George Washington University (GW) Cancer Center The George Washington University (GW) Cancer Center is pleased to announce the release of the Advancing Patient-Centered Cancer Survivorship Care Toolkit, a companion, mini-module as part of the Cancer Survivorship E-Learning Series for Primary Care Providers and peer forum.  These tools were developed with the support of […]

Housing Restoration Information and Calculator

Shared from the Tobacco Education Clearinghouse of California. Below is a document that is widely used from Kennedy Restoration in Oregon with information on the costs to turn over a smoking housing unit vs. a non-smoking housing unit. Here is a link to a tool to help calculate turnover costs of a smoke damaged housing […]

From CDC MMWR: Tobacco Product Use and Cessation Indicators Among Adults — United States, 2018

ARTICLE SHARED FROM CDC MMWR HERE:  https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/68/wr/mm6845a2.htm?s_cid=mm6845a2_w To assess estimates of tobacco product use among U.S. Adults age 18 years or older, CDC, FDA, and NCI analyzed data from the 2018 National Health Interview Survey.  In 2017, approximately 49 million (1 in 5) U.S. adults currently used any tobacco product, with cigarette smoking reaching an […]

Employment Opportunity: North American Quitline Consortium

North American Quitline Consortium will be hiring two half-time staff this fall: Manager of Research and Evaluation Program Manager Feel free to help in circulating the position descriptions.
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