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The Richland County Health Department’s Drug Free Communities (DFC) program is holding an art contest for all school age youth in Richland County, K-12th grade, including homeschool students. The theme is from this school year’s Red Ribbon Week, “Be Kind to your Mind. Live Drug Free”. The art needs to illustrate, interpret, and emphasize this theme. There are only three easy rules to comply: • Only original work will be accepted. • Include the theme “Be Kind to your mind. Live Drug Free in 2024” • Be Creative! Have fun with the design. We wa...
Everyone knows that smoking is one of the single worst things we can do to our bodies. Tobacco addiction is one of the biggest killers in the world today. However, our bodies can recover from the fatal harm tobacco may cause. Our bodies are so incredible, they can start to heal themself from the dangers of smoking in a matter of minutes. When you stop smoking, within 20 minutes your heart rate drops, and your blood pressure returns to normal. After a single day of quitting, the risk of having a heart attack begins to decrease. It becomes...
If you haven’t heard of the Richland County Partnership for Promise Coalition before, we are excited to catch you up. Founded in 1997, America’s Promise Alliance launched with a growing movement by General Colin Powell’s idea that there are five things kids need to be successful in life: Caring Adults, Safe Places, Healthy Start, Marketable Skills and an Opportunity to Serve. With these goals in mind, Richland County began its own coalition of Partnership for Promise in 1998. Jumping ahead a “few” years, we are moving on to the current n...
In 2016, nicotine pouches entered the US market and have drastically increased in popularity since then. Fruit-flavored pouches were the most popular and outsold all other types in the first six months of 2020. One of the brands in our area that have been popular with the youth are called “Zyn”. Others are Velo, Juice Head, breakers, ON!, Rouge, GR1NDS, to name a few. Nicotine pouches are oral tobacco products that dissolve nicotine salt-based powder in the mouth without requiring spitting. These products come in many flavors and colorful pac...
Sidney, MT – Quitting tobacco is hard. But starting with a single day of giving up tobacco can help you take the first step to a longer, healthier life. Let the Great American Smokeout® event on Thursday, Nov. 17 be your day to start the journey toward a life free from smoking. On Nov. 17, join your fellow Montanans and thousands across the nation to celebrate the Great American Smokeout® by making a pledge to a tobacco-free life. For over 40 years, the Great American Smokeout® has motivated tobacco users to quit smoking by raising awar...
It’s hard to believe the kids are back in school and fall is just around the corner. Parents, grandparents, and many other friends and family will be busy attending the students varies activities such as sports, concerts and other exciting school events. The start of each school year is an exciting fresh start new start to reunite with old friends and a time to make new ones. Guess who else pays a lot of attention to our youth? Big Tobacco. They spend approximately $9.2 billion dollars a year at what is called “Point of Sale Marketing”. This...
Each June, National Healthy Homes Month raises awareness on housing-related health hazards and the steps to take for safe, healthy homes. This year’s theme is “A Healthy Home at Any Age” to highlight the importance of a safe living space for everyone in the family. One substantial way to maintain a healthy home is to keep it smokefree, whether it’s a private home or an apartment. There is no safe amount of secondhand smoke exposure, and the home is the main place many children and adults are exposed. Secondhand smoke can cause damage and diseas...
The greed and deceit of cigarette manufacturers is hardly breaking news, but Richland County Tobacco Prevention Specialist Jacklyn Damm has recently been enlightening Middle School students with some of those very facts. Why this story now? With the Richland County Youth Risk Behavior Survey showing that 55% of High School students and 26% of Middle School students are currently vaping, it’s time to tell them the real truth behind Big Tobaccos marketing tactics and the ongoing deception that has led to them. Over 1,300 people die every day i...
It’s back to school with all of the kids excited about catching up with old friends and making new ones. School projects, events and sports are just a few of the things that come to mind during this fall type weather and getting back into the full swing of things. But one of those things to watch out for is the high rate of our youth that are vaping, and starting as early as middle school age. E-cigarettes are the most commonly used tobacco product among Montana teens. More than half of Montana High school students have tried e-cigarettes or v...
Richland County - May 10 marks 17 years of helping Montanans quit tobacco. Since 2004, more than 100,000 Montanans have called the Montana Tobacco Quit Line for help with their quit attempt. Montana has the highest quit rate for all tobacco products in the nation, according to the North American Quitline Consortium. The quit rate is significantly higher for Montanans who utilize the Montana Tobacco Quit Line than for those who try quitting alone (36% compared to 4-7%). Montanans who call the Quit Line and use Chantix have a quit rate of 50%....
Red Ribbon Week is the nation’s oldest and largest drug prevention awareness campaign that millions of people celebrate. Red Ribbon Week started after the death of Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent Enrique “Kiki” Camarena, who in 1985 was brutally murdered by drug traffickers he was investigating in Mexico. After his death, people wanted to honor his sacrifice. In 1988 the National Family Partnership started the first National Red Ribbon Week in his honor. Red Ribbon Week is celebrated Oct. 23-31 of every year, but will be celeb...
Red Ribbon Week is the nation’s oldest and largest drug prevention awareness campaign that millions of people celebrate. Red Ribbon Week started after the death of Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent Enrique “Kiki” Camarena, who in 1985 was brutally murdered by drug traffickers he was investigating in Mexico. After his death, people wanted to honor his sacrifice. In 1988 the National Family Partnership started the first National Red Ribbon Week in his honor. Red Ribbon Week is celebrated Oct. 23-31 of every year, but will be celeb...
A day to remember we need to be vigilant about protecting our youth from the Big Tobacco industry manipulation and preventing them from tobacco and nicotine use including vaping. For decades, the tobacco industry has deliberately employed strategic, aggressive and well-resourced tactics to attract youth to tobacco and nicotine products. Internal industry documents reveal in-depth research and calculated approaches designed to attract a new generation of tobacco users, from product design to marketing campaigns aimed at replacing the millions of...
Richland County, MT – In this time of uncertainty amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, one thing is certain, lung health has never been more important. Now is the time to quit smoking and vaping and Montana has free resources to help. COVID-19 is a new disease that attacks the lungs. People of any age who have serious underlying medical conditions might be at higher risk for severe illness from COVID-19. Some of the higher risk populations are people with chronic lung disease or moderate to severe asthma, people who have serious heart conditions, a...
Every year, millions of people make New Year’s resolutions, hoping to spark positive change. The recurring themes each year include a more active approach to health and fitness, improved finances, and learning new things for personal and professional development. Among the top ten most common New Year’s resolutions is to quit smoking or using other forms of tobacco. However, once the glow of a fresh New Year wears off, many people struggle to make good on their plans. For tobacco users, that’s where the Montana Quit Line comes in. The Monta...
World No Tobacco Day is observed around the world every year on the 31st of May. It is intended to encourage a 24-hour period of abstinence from all forms of tobacco consumption around the globe. The day is further intended to draw attention to the widespread prevalence of tobacco use and to negative health effects, which currently lead to more than 7 million deaths each year worldwide, including 600,000 of which are the result of non-smokers being exposed to second-hand smoke. World No Tobacco Day 2018 will focus on the impact tobacco has on...
The American Cancer Society is marking the 38th Great American Smokeout on November 16th by encouraging smokers to use the date to make a plan to quit. By quitting — even for one day — smokers will be taking an important step towards a healthier life – one that can lead to reducing cancer risk. Tobacco use remains the single largest preventable cause of disease and premature death in the US, yet about 43.8 million Americans still smoke cigarettes — Nearly 1 in every 5 adults. About 36.5 million Americans still smoke cigarettes, and tobacco...
When you walk into a grocery store or convenience store, what do you see? Rows of groceries. Coolers with soft drinks and beer. Counters and cash registers. And, in a lot of places, tobacco products on a large wall display. Stores aren’t just where we buy things. The entire time we’re there, we’re being marketed to. There are ads almost everyplace we look. The message we get is to buy more. Try something new. Get a better deal. Once you open your eyes, tobacco advertising is everywhere you look inside the store. It’s on signs and shelves, on th...
Secondhand smoke is the combination of smoke from the burning end of a cigarette and the smoke breathed out by smokers. Secondhand smoke contains more than 7,000 chemicals. Hundreds are toxic and about 70 can cause cancer. There is no risk-free level of exposure to secondhand smoke. Secondhand smoke causes numerous health problems in infants and children, including more frequent and severe asthma attacks, respiratory infections, ear infections, and sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS). Smoking during pregnancy results in more than 1,000 infant...
The American Cancer Society marks the Great American Smokeout on the third Thursday of November each year by encouraging smokers to use the date to make a plan to quit, or to plan in advance and quit smoking that day. By quitting even for one day, smokers will be taking an important step towards a healthier life, one that can lead to reducing cancer risk. Tobacco use remains the single largest preventable cause of disease and premature death in the US, yet about 42 million Americans still smoke cigarettes, approximately 1 in every 5 adults. As...
The American Cancer Society marks the Great American Smokeout on the third Thursday of November each year by encouraging smokers to use the date to make a plan to quit, or to plan in advance and quit smoking that day. By quitting even for one day smokers will be taking an important step towards a healthier life, one that can lead to reducing cancer risk. Tobacco use remains the single largest preventable cause of disease and premature death in the US, yet about 42 million Americans still smoke...
The American Cancer Society marks the Great American Smokeout on the third Thursday of November each year by encouraging smokers to use the date to make a plan to quit, or to plan in advance and quit smoking that day. By quitting even for one day, smokers will be taking an important step towards a healthier life, one that can lead to reducing cancer risk. Tobacco use remains the single largest preventable cause of disease and premature death in the US, yet about 42 million Americans still smoke cigarettes, approximately 1 in every 5 adults. As...
Study finds youth who have used e-cigarettes are almost twice as likely to intend to smoke conventional cigarettes More than a quarter of a million youth who had never smoked a cigarette used electronic cigarettes in 2013, according to a CDC study published in the journal Nicotine and Tobacco Research. This number reflects a three-fold increase, from about 79,000 in 2011, to more than 263,000 in 2013. The data, which comes from the 2011, 2012, and 2013 National Youth Tobacco surveys of middle and high school students, show that youth who had...
Over 14% of Montana men use smokeless tobacco, a rate that is more than twice the national average. Also more concerning, 22 % of Montana high school males use smokeless tobacco. These Montanans are fifty times more likely to develop oral cancer than non-users. It’s time to take back your good health and your life gentlemen by joining us for Through With Chew week. The Montana Quit Line is geared to help smokeless users quit through telephone counseling as well as pharmacological support. Please go to the Quit Line website w...
E-cigarettes, or electronic cigarettes, have been largely unregulated, and there have been many doctors and others questioning the safety of these products. Electronic cigarettes typically use a rechargeable battery-operated heating element to vaporize the nicotine in a replaceable cartridge. Nicotine, the addictive element of tobacco, is usually dissolved in propylene glycol, a clear and colorless liquid that is commonly found in inhalers, cough medicines and other products. A laboratory analysis of e-cigarettes samples by FDA revealed that...
