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SouthEast Alaska Rural Health Consortium San Francisco raises smoking age

3/2/2016 by Noel Diem ORIGINAL ARTICLE HERE FROM i4u.com Starting on June 1, anyone in San Francisco who wants to buy tobacco products must be 21 years of age, an increase from 18, the legal age for a major part of the country. The measure comes after unanimous approval from the San Francisco Board of […]

SouthEast Alaska Rural Health Consortium ‘Thirdhand smoke,’ traces left on clothing and furniture, may raise type 2 diabetes risk

3/2/2016 by Lecia Bushak ORIGINAL ARTICLE HERE FROM MEDICALDAILY.COM We often learn about the harmful effects of secondhand smoke or smoking directly — but rarely do we hear about what’s known as “thirdhand smoke” (THS), exhaled smoke that makes its way onto surfaces in our homes, cars, or even workplaces. Getting a whiff of a […]

Screening Rates Midwest Researcher Working to Drive Up Colon Cancer Screening Rates

Midwest Researcher Working to Drive Up Colon Cancer Screening Rates   Colorectal cancer is one of the few cancers that can be prevented through screening. But about 1 in 3 American adults who need to be screened for colorectal cancer is not doing so.   Jennifer Weiss, MD, a researcher and physician at the University […]

UCanQuit2.org Quit Tobacco UCanQuit2.org “Quit Brief” – March 2016 Now Available

The Quit Tobacco UCanQuit2.org “Quit Brief” – March 2016 issue is now available here.

SouthEast Alaska Rural Health Consortium INFOGRAPHIC: Sacred Traditional Tobacco for Healthy Native Communities

Thank you the American Indian Cancer Foundation for this new infographic, located HERE.

Truth Can smoking kill cat videos? A bold public health ad says yes

ORIGINAL ARTICLE HERE FROM NPR By Angus Chen After the Grammys, social media were awash in Hamilton and Kendrick Lamar shares, but cats took the Web like they owned it. In a 30-second ad, house cats sent a chilling memo to smokers: The health of the Internet is at stake. The montage of cat videos […]

Smoking Policy Palo Alto looks to raise age for tobacco sales

ORIGINAL ARTICLE HERE From Palo Alto Online By:  Gennady Sheyner PALTO ALTO, Calif. – Seeking to make Palo Alto a regional leader in a crusade against cigarette smoke, city officials are preparing to raise the minimum age for buying tobacco to 21 and to ban smoking in local apartment buildings and condominium complexes. The two proposals would […]

Wrangell Blog: You Can Quit Smoking at Any Age

By Tammi Meissner – SEARHC WRANGELL, Alaska – My Grandma, Yvonne (Bakke) Stough, started smoking in 1942 at the age of 17.  Grandma said “I started smoking because everybody smoked.  Back then we didn’t know it was bad for you.” She married my Grandpa Richard Stough, in 1949.  He smoked an average of three packs […]