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Free Help to Quit Tobacco For SMOKERS call 1-800-NO-BUTTS Or Text “NoSmokes” to 66819

Glenn County

Merced County

Keep your family and community healthy – learn how to quit using tobacco products

Oral Health Rack Card

Secondhand Smoke and Outdoors Rack Card

You canmake a difference!

To QUIT CHEW call 1-800-844-CHEW www.nobutts.org

Making outdoor spaces such as parks, restaurant patios, and trails smokefree, models healthy behavior for children and youth. Educate lawmakers on laws that ban smoking and vaping in outdoor public spaces

For VAPE USERS call 1-844-8-NO-VAPE Or text “NoVapes” to 66819 www.novapes.org For more tools to quit, visit Smokefree.gov

Why do we need smokefree outdoor areas? Protect our community from the hazards of smoking and vaping! DID YOU KNOW?

Reach out to us for assistance to make our community smokefree

Did you know?

Adults in rural areas are more likely to smoke cigarettes and use smokeless tobacco products such as chew, dip, and snuff. People in rural communities have a 20% higher chance of developing lung cancer .

WE ARE HERE TO HELP!

Secondhand smoke can travel over 20 feet once it is exhaled. Children are easily exposed to smoke in public outdoor areas. Children and animals can pick up littered cigarette butts and eat them. When nicotine is eaten, it is poisonous .

Breathing secondhand smoke from e-cigarettes/ vaping devices is also harmful to your health.

A program of California Health Collaborative

209-725-8240 mctcp@healthcollaborative.org www.healthcollaborative.org

Sources: 1. Center for Behavioral Health Statistics and Quality. 2016 National Survey on Drug Use and Health: Detailed Tables. 2017 2. Singh et al. Socioeconomic, Rural-Urban, and Racial Inequalities In US Cancer Mortality: Part I—All Cancers and Lung Cancer and Part II—Colorectal, Prostate, Breast, and Cervical Cancers external icon.2011. 3. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The Health Consequences of Smoking: A Report of the Surgeon General, 2004.

What happens after you quit smoking?

Local fire departments respond to nearly 30,000 outdoor fires a year caused by smoking .

© 2020. California Department of Public Health. Funded under contract #17-10006. 3. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The Health Consequences Of Smoking – 50 Years Of Progress: 2014. 4. Hall, J.R., Jr. National Fire Protection Association. The Smoking Material Problem. 2013. Sources 1. Repace, J. Measurements of Outdoor Air Pollution from Secondhand Smoke on the UMBC Campus.2005. 2. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. E-Cigarette Use Among Youth and Young Adults. 2016.

ALA - North Valley

1 YEAR Risk for heart

Cessation Rack Card

1 MONTH Lung function begins to improve.

1 DAY The risk of heart attack

disease decreases by half.

© 2020. California Department of Public Health. Funded under contract #15-10215.

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begins to decrease.