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Opportunity grants now available:
The Tobacco Prevention Program now offers small grants (under $2,500.00) to local businesses, organizations, and individuals, to support its long-term tobacco control goal of lowering the number of people who use and become addicted to tobacco products in King County. View the Opportunity Grant Guidelines for details. For questions or comments, please contact Mark Sherard at (206) 296-7613 or mark.sherard@kingcounty.gov
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Smoking in public places:
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Stop smoking
- The benefits of quitting
- Learn why nicotine is a powerful addiction
- Good reasons for quitting
- Five keys to quitting
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Community Tobacco Cessation Partnership
The Community Tobacco Cessation Partnership provides trainings on the Best Practice Guidelines in Treating Tobacco Use and Dependence as defined by the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services. Ongoing support includes technical assistance, nicotine patches (NRT), and cessation education materials.
Organizations within the Partnership serve populations who have the highest prevalence of smoking in King County and are capable of using these key strategies to reduce prevalence of tobacco use and health disparities caused by tobacco:
- Change organizational systems to screen for and treat tobacco use
- Change social norms of clients concerning tobacco use
- Provide and promote access to treatment
- Promote the Washington State Quitline
Read this Fact Sheet to find out more about trainings, and complete the Screening Form if your organization is interested joining the Partnership.
Check out the latest Community Tobacco Cessation Partnership Newsletter, the Partnership Press.
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Tobacco laws and regulations
- State and local laws on tobacco
- Master Settlement Agreement
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Information for retailers:
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Tobacco fact sheets
Tobacco Facts including information on secondhand smoke, what's in a cigarette, cigars and your health, smoking and various health conditions and more...
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Information for educators:
- Promoting smoke-free multiunit housing
- Trainings
Public Health-Seattle & King County Tobacco Prevention provides professional trainings to help you – implement a comprehensive tobacco treatment component at health care faculty (primary care, family planning, dental, mental health, pharmacy), understand the tobacco issue in general, implement smoke free policy for your business or facility, help employees quit smoking, mitigate smoking issues in public housing, understand the new tobacco laws, secondhand smoke.
- Clinical Guidelines for Treating Nicotine Addiction (PPT)
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Youth Volunteers
A successful Tobacco Prevention Program must include youth involvement. Public Health's Tobacco Prevention Program is always looking for more youth volunteers to take part in various tobacco prevention activities.
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Tobacco-related external links
- A brief history of tobacco
- Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids
- Tobacco Use Among U.S. Racial/Ethnic Minority Groups
- Washington's Tobacco Quit Line: Free Help for Tobacco Users
- and more...
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