Great Plains Smokeout Challenge!

Great Plains Tribal Chairmen’s Health Board is joining the American Cancer Society in the year’s Great American Smokeout on November 16, 2017.  This Challenge is open to all the Tribes of the Great Plains (SD, ND, NE, IA).  Please contact Terra Houska for more information and your free quit kit!  Prizes for those who stay smoke free for 30 consecutive days.

  • 43.8% of American Indian/Alaska Native (AI/AN) adults reported current use of commercial tobacco in 2013.
  • Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death among AI/AN.
  • Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer deaths among AI/AN.
  • Smokers are at a higher risk of developing diabetes.
  • 400,000 deaths in a year are attributed to smoking.
  • One pack a day for an entire year is the same amount as a trip for one person to go to Disney World!
  • Smoking-related illness costs more than $300 billion each year.
  • Direct medical care for adults costs $170 billion each year.
  • $5.6 billion in lost time at work due to secondhand smoke exposure.
  • Smokers hike up the cost of insurance premiums that effect all non-smokers.

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NIHB presents National Tribal Health Conference | Sheraton Grand at Wildhorse Pass in Chandler, Arizona | LEARN MORE AND REGISTER

75 Years Later:  The Impact of the 1950 Papers on Smoking and Lung Cancer | This symposium will celebrate the achievements that have occurred over the past 75 years in the fields of tobacco control, lung cancer epidemiology and causal inference.  Two seminal papers on lung cancer and smoking initiated these three areas of scholarship in 1950.  Since then, significant public health, policy, and research contributions have been made by scholars around the world.  In this symposium, speakers will highlight such accomplishments and present their current research in these fields. | DOWNLOAD FLIER | REGISTER HERE

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