Team 3: Smoking and Vaping Harms Your Health
Please quit today. Your life is important now and in the future. You have no idea all of the great things that can happen. You can make a difference. Please take good care of yourself. 💝
Clean air is a racial, social, climate and environmental justice issue.
Smoking ends lives.
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*Clean Air Saves Lives
*No Idling
*Actions You Can Take
*Bills to Support
*Dangers of Vaping, E-Cigarettes
*Dangers of Tobacco
*Dangers of Cannabis / Marijuana
*Dangers of Second & Thirdhand Smoke
*Help to Quite Smoking or Vaping & Educational Resources
*Sample Legislation & Resources
Tobacco-Free Generation (TFG) laws set a birthdate deadline for tobacco sales which will phase out tobacco sales. For example, Brookline, Massachusetts in 2020 passed a TFG ordinance that no one born on or after January 1, 2000 can purchase tobacco products. Please see this 2010 academic paper for more information.
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“…smoking was associated with higher risks of 22 causes of death and 56 individual diseases.”
“Smoking also increases the risks of developing a wide range of conditions that do not generally cause deaths, such as asthma, peptic ulcer, cataract, diabetes, and other metabolic diseases.”
Dangers of Secondhand & Thirdhand Smoke
“Kids in families with one smoker had lead levels 14 percent higher than children who live with non-smokers. That number jumped to 24 percent if children lived with two or more smokers.”
“One in five children under the age of 11 live with at least one smoker.”
“Nicotine levels measured 40-60 minutes after washing were similar to those measured before washing. Sanitizing had little impact on nicotine levels on participants’ hands.”
“…the monitors closer to the cigarette case in each store reported higher nicotine concentrations in the air…unlit, packaged cigarettes do release nicotine into the air, exposing employees and customers.”
“…most stores had the same amount of nicotine regardless of how well they were ventilated, suggesting ventilation does not protect people from nicotine exposure from off-gassing unlit cigarettes.”
“Parents may think that not smoking around their child is enough, but this is not the case,” Melinda Mahabee-Gittens, a physician in the Division of Emergency Medicine at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, said in a press release. “These findings emphasize that the only safe way to protect children from smoke exposure is to quit smoking and ban smoking in the home.”
What Does Thirdhand Smoke Exposure Do To Our Bodies?
Ask Cities of Lemon Grove and Lake Forest to pass an ordinance to stop smoking in and around multi-unit housing
City of Lemon Grove petition link. City of Lake Forest petition link.
Up to 65% of the air in an apartment can come from other units in the building
1 in 4 nonsmokers living in rental housing are exposed to secondhand smoke which can cause cancer
#SmokingIsSmoking
#SmokingIsNotCoping
Navajo Nation bans indoor smoking in public places, including casinos
Tobacco is a sacred plant to some Native American communities and any commercial use, including e-cigarettes, is against that belief.
Black Lives / Black Lungs is a short film investigating the tobacco industry’s infiltration into the black community.
Dangers of Vaping and E-Cigarettes
“Long-term use of electronic cigarettes, or vaping products, can significantly impair the function of the body’s blood vessels, increasing the risk for cardiovascular disease.”
Vaping: Deadly Products Target Kids
4 Marketing Tactics E-Cigarette Companies Use to Target Youth
How the Vaping Industry is Targeting Teens and Getting Away With It
FDA Does NOT Regulate E-Cigarettes
Mystery Youth Vaping Disease Reveals Gaping Holes in Regulation
For Years, Juul and its Competitors have Run an E-Cigarette Market Without FDA Approval
80% of the vaping market is controlled by Big Tobacco…Altria (Philip Morris) and RJ Reynolds.
Dangers of Tobacco
Making Your Home Secondhand Smoke Free
Slashing Cigarette Nicotine Levels No Longer on FDA’s Agenda
Cigarette Litter: “One cigarette butt can contain up to 60 known human carcinogens including arsenic, formaldehyde, chromium and lead”
Dangers of Cannabis / Marijuana
“…110 are known to be toxic, whether they be carcinogenic, mutagenic or teratogenic, which are chemicals that can interfere with the development of the embryo or fetus.”
“One minute of exposure to second-hand smoke (SHS) from marijuana diminishes blood vessel function to the same extent as tobacco, but the harmful cardiovascular effects last three times longer.”
The False Narrative That Marijuana Legalization Creates Social Justice For Black And Hispanic Americans by Americans Against Legalizing Marijuana (AALM)
”Just as Big Tobacco and liquor stores have targeted lower-income communities as an important consumer-base, the marijuana industry seeks a similar base to establish addiction-for-profit businesses. According to Truth Initiative, an organization dedicated to exposing the truth about Big Tobacco, tobacco companies have historically targeted and advertised to lower-income communities and communities of color. Borrowing the playbook of Big Tobacco, the marijuana industry is actively doing the same.”
"Legalizing marijuana only increases the problems in minority communities by promoting increased marijuana use and its negative social, medical and public safety consequences."
Recreational cannabis companies marketing appeals to adolescents (wisc.edu)
"A new study led by the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health finds many recreational cannabis companies market their products in a way that appeals to children and teens, despite state-based regulations prohibiting it."
Mental Health | Health Effects | Marijuana | CDC
"People who use marijuana are more likely to develop temporary psychosis (not knowing what is real, hallucinations, and paranoia) and long-lasting mental disorders, including schizophrenia (a type of mental illness where people might see or hear things that are not really there). The association between marijuana and schizophrenia is stronger in people who start using marijuana at an earlier age and use marijuana more frequently. Marijuana use has also been linked to depression; social anxiety; and thoughts of suicide, suicide attempts, and suicide."
Cannabis users 22% more likely to need emergency care (openaccessgovernment.org)
"Cannabis may cause mental distortion and irritation in the lungs."
How Marijuana Exposure Affects Developing Babies’ Brains
”Children of marijuana users were more impulsive and hyperactive, and exhibited behavioral issues, lower IQ scores, and memory problems when compared to children of non-users.”
How Marijuana Use Affects School, Work, and Social Life: “someone who smokes marijuana daily may be functioning at a reduced intellectual level most or all of the time. Considerable evidence suggests that students who smoke marijuana have poorer educational outcomes than their nonsmoking peers.”
How Casual Marijuana Can Cause Brain Abnormalities
”The study revealed that the brains of those who smoked only one joint a day or those who smoked only once a week were changed.”
Marijuana Use in Pregnancy: “Marijuana is the most commonly used dependent substance in pregnancy.”
Study Shows Marijuana Industry Using Tobacco’s Old Tactics of Preying on Kids
”…the unethical choices the tobacco industry made decades ago marketing its addictive and harmful products to kids and the lax government oversight that allowed it to happen are playing out again in California’s legal cannabis industry.”
Young Adult Cannabis Users Nearly Twice as Likely to Suffer from a Heart Attack
”Adults under 45 years old, who consumed cannabis within the last 30 days, suffered from nearly double the number of heart attacks than adults who didn't…”
Help to Quit & Educational Resources
English: 1-800-QUIT-NOW (1-800-784-8669) or www.smokefree.gov
Spanish: 1-855-DEJELO-YA (1-855-335-3569) or espanol.smokefree.gov
Chinese: 1-800-838-8917 or www.asiansmokersquitline.org
Korean: 1-800-556-5564 or www.asiansmokersquitline.org
Vietnamese: 1-800-778-8440 or www.asiansmokersquitline.org
Veterans: 1-855-QUIT VET (1-855-784-8838) or www.publichealth.va.gov/smoking
TTY: 1-800-332-8615
AFRICAN AMERICAN TOBACCO CONTROL LEADERSHIP COUNCIL (AATCLC)
They have a number of publications and videos that go into great detail on how the tobacco industry markets to minorities and youth. Example: Targeted tobacco marketing in 2020: the case of #BlackLivesMatter (savingblacklives.org)
AMERICANS AGAINST LEGALIZING MARIJUANA (AALM)
AMERICAN NONSMOKERS’ RIGHTS FOUNDATION (ANRF)
CAMPAIGN FOR TOBACCO-FREE KIDS
CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH
NORTH COASTAL PREVENTION COALITION
Sample Legislation
City of Encinitas, Public Smoking Ban
City of Beverly Hills, Ban on Sale of Smoking Products
City of Manhattan Beach, Ban on Sale of Smoking Products
City of San Diego, No Flavored Tobacco
County of Sacramento, No Flavored Tobacco
City of Sacramento, No Flavored Tobacco
City of Fresno, No Smoking in Multi-Unit Housing
County of Alameda, No Smoking in Multi-Unit Housing
Smoke Free San Diego Resources
Tobacco & Multi-Unit Housing Resource Packet
Cities & Counties in California with Smokefree Multi-Unit Housing
Tobacco-Free Generation (TFG) laws set a birthdate deadline for tobacco sales which will phase out tobacco sales. For example, Brookline, Massachusetts in 2020 passed a TFG ordinance that no one born on or after January 1, 2000 can purchase tobacco products. Please see this 2010 academic paper for more information.