Native America Calling: New Ideas for Preventing Colon Cancer

From Native America Calling Monday, June 21, 2021 New Ideas for Preventing Colon Cancer By Art Hughs The panel that oversees health recommendations for the U.S. is lowering the age that adults should get colon cancer screenings.  In May, the U.S. Preventative Task Force reduced the recommended screening age from 50 to 45.  Native American […]

Begin Quitting Smoking Today — Keep Tobacco Sacred | Free help: 1-855-5AI-QUIT | AIQuitline.com

Native Americans in Michigan can begin the journey to keep tobacco sacred and quit smoking commercial tobacco today by calling 1-855-5AI-QUIT (1-855-524-7848) or visit aiquitline.com for free culturally tailored quit coaching.  The American Indian Commercial Tobacco Program (AICTP) is a free resource dedicated to helping Native Americans in Michigan begin their journey to quit using […]

CDC: New Web Content to Help People Use Quit-Smoking Medicines

CDC’s Office on Smoking and Health (OSH) has just launched new web content related to smoking cessation medicines.  The new pages help people who want to quit smoking to: select a quit-smoking medicine, and learn how to use the 7 FDA-approved medicines to increase their likelihood of quitting for good. These pages can be accessed […]

CDC: Best Practices User Guides | Partnerships in Tobacco Prevention and Control

From CDC:  Best Practices User Guides | Partnerships in Tobacco Prevention and Control https://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/stateandcommunity/best-practices-partnerships/pdf/best-practices-partnership-user-guide-508.pdf

Smokefree Tribal Casinos Petition

Over the past several days, dozens of Tribal casinos across the United States have begun rolling back COVID-19 restrictions, including long-awaited smokefree indoor air ordinances. We are urging the National Congress of American Indians to make an immediate statement in support of smokefree air so that additional Tribal casinos will not revert back to allowing […]

COMMENTARY: Supports smoking ban for Cherokee casinos

FULL ARTICLE HERE By Lavita Hill Big Cove Community In May, a group of enrolled EBCI (Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians) members submitted an ordinance change to tribal council which will ban smoking on the gaming floors of Harrah’s Cherokee Casino Resort and Harrah’s Valley River Casino Resort.  Our casinos have been smoke-free since they […]

WHYY: Sacred Tobacco and American Indians, Tradition and Conflict

From WHYY PBS & NPR By Sojourner Ahébée May 14, 2021 Sean Brown grew up on an American Indian reservation in Seminole County, Oklahoma where he says tobacco was everywhere — in TV and radio ads, on billboards and storefronts. “Everyone in my dad’s family smoked,” Brown said. “Chain-smoked a pack a day — grandma, […]

Tetrahydrocannabinol (THC)-Containing E-Cigarette, or Vaping, Product Use Behaviors Among Adults After the Onset of the 2019 Outbreak of E-Cigarette, or Vaping, Product Use-Associated Lung Injury (EVALI)

CDC’s Office on Smoking and Health has released the following tobacco-related article in the journal, Addicted Behaviors During the E-cigarette, or Vaping, Product Use-Associated Lung Injury (EVALI) outbreak, patient data on tetrahydrocannabinol (THC)-containing e-cigarette, or vaping, product (EVP) use was collected, but data on product use among non-affected adults after the onset of the EVALI […]

ARTICLE: Clinical Trial: Text message program increases quit rates among young adult e-cigarette users by nearly 40%

From Truth Initiative: Quit rates were nearly 40% higher among young adult e-cigarette users who used the text message-based quit program This Is Quitting compared to a control group that did not receive quit support, according to results of a randomized clinical trial published in JAMA Internal Medicine. The Truth Initiative research demonstrates the effectiveness […]
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