SOUTHEASTERN MONTANA TOBACCO USE PREVENTION PROGRAM In This Issue: New Cigarette Plain Packaging Little Big Horn Days Smoking Does Not Appeal to Youth Fun Run to End the School Year Community: Changing Culture, Play Ball California Lawmakers Vote to Raise Smoking Age to 21 Montana Facts & Figures Don’t Get Burned! Summer Sun Safety Tips River Valley Farmers Market Calendar of Events Contact Information MTUPP - Mission Statement Southeastern Montana Tobacco Use Prevention Program Newsletter June 2016 Working Together for a Healthier Tomorrow Big Horn, Custer, Rosebud and Treasure County Newsletter Coming June 23, 24, 25, and 26, 2016. Hardin Chamber of Commerce & Agriculture10 East Railway — P.O. Box 446 in Hardin is sponsoring Little Big Horn Days. Call (406) 665 – 1672 or e - mail — [email protected]for more information. Schedule of events can be found by going to the Hardin Chamber of Commerce or checking out the website at http://www.thehardinchamber.com/#! littlebighorndays/cfvg World No Tobacco Day takes place every year on May 31. This year's theme is Get Ready for Plain Packaging. Plain packaging is an important demand reduction measure that reduces the attractiveness of tobacco products, restricts use of tobacco packag- ing as a form of tobacco advertising and promotion, limits misleading packaging and labelling, and increases the effectiveness of health warnings. Guidelines to Articles 11 and 13 of the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (WHO FCTC) recommend that Parties consider adoption of plain packaging. - See more at: http://www.fctc.org/fca-news/world-no-tobacco-day/ world-no-tobacco-day-2016#sthash.gyUQUvT4.dpuf
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SOUTHEASTERN MONTANA
TOBACCO USE PREVENTION PROGRAM
In This Issue:
New Cigarette Plain Packaging
Little Big Horn Days
Smoking Does Not Appeal to Youth
Fun Run to End the School Year
Community: Changing Culture, Play Ball
California Lawmakers Vote to Raise Smoking Age to 21
Montana Facts & Figures
Don’t Get Burned! Summer Sun Safety Tips
River Valley Farmers Market
Calendar of Events
Contact Information
MTUPP - Mission Statement
Southeastern Montana Tobacco Use Prevention Program Newsletter June 2016
Working Together for a Healthier Tomorrow
Big Horn, Custer, Rosebud and Treasure County Newsletter
Coming June 23, 24, 25, and 26, 2016. Hardin
Chamber of Commerce & Agriculture10 East
Railway—P.O. Box 446 in Hardin is sponsoring
Little Big Horn Days. Call (406) 665–1672 or e-mail—
World No Tobacco Day takes place every year on May 31.
This year's theme is Get Ready for Plain Packaging.
Plain packaging is an important demand reduction measure that reduces the attractiveness of tobacco products, restricts use of tobacco packag-
ing as a form of tobacco advertising and promotion, limits misleading packaging and labelling, and increases the effectiveness of health warnings.
Guidelines to Articles 11 and 13 of the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (WHO FCTC) recommend that Parties consider adoption of plain packaging.
- See more at: http://www.fctc.org/fca-news/world-no-tobacco-day/ world-no-tobacco-day-2016#sthash.gyUQUvT4.dpuf
The Rosebud School ended the year with a huge bang by having the community come together and participate in the reACT Fun Run. The reACT Fun Run was an exciting afternoon full of outdoor activities to promote healthy lifestyles and to show that there are other ways to have fun. This event was put on by the local Rosebud reACT Group. reACT is Montana’s teen-led movement against Big Tobacco. reACT joins statewide youth empower-ment movements across the country in recognizing the power of young people to effectively take on one of our leading preventable causes of death: commercial tobacco use.
The eventful afternoon started out with students and teachers gathering together to participate in a one mile Fun Run race/walk. While some enjoyed a leisurely stroll to the finish line, others duked it out to be the first of three winners who received reACT t-shirts as their prizes. Once everyone returned from the one mile run, they kept themselves hydrated by drinking water and snacking on granola bars. Up next, the students were broken down into teams to participate in some fun relay races to try to win a few prizes. The event was a huge success and the reACTors received many compliments from students and staff to make this an annual event. Everyone that participated received water bottles and were thanked for helping the reACT group put on an exciting reACT Fun Run.
Smoking Does Not Appeal to Youth
Tori Jonas displayed a unhealthy lung to elementary classes at Kircher School. This presentation was of a pigs lung showing the effects that happen to a person who smoked a pack of cigarettes everyday for twenty years. The students were very fascinated by the display and asked many questions about cigarette use and how to help those family members that smoke and want to quit. The lung display was able to be inflated to show where the "person" had cancer from the toxins of smoking. It was a great display for the students to experience the visual effects of tobacco use and the lungs.
When Pittsburgh Pirates ace Francisco Liriano threw out the opening pitch of
the 2016 season, he kicked off a historic season for America’s pastime: 2016
marks the first year in the history of Major League Baseball that some stadi-
ums will be tobacco free.
Laws passed in Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, New York and San Francisco
will prohibit smokeless tobacco at sports venues. California recently passed a
statewide ban. Once the laws go into effect, one third of our ballparks will be smokeless, tobacco-free venues.
Throughout April, the Dodgers, Red Sox, and Giants hosted home openers that were free of smokeless tobacco
at one of the most iconic homes in baseball –Wrigley Field, Fenway Park, and Chavez Ravine.
Culture can play a critical role in the campaign to end tobacco use, whether it ’s cigarette imagery in video games
and youth-rated films, the effects secondhand smoke has on pets, or the fact that smoking has a negative impact
on your dating life. Tobacco use by athletes who serve as role models for young people are another example of
this cultural influence.
In 2013, the most recent year for which data is available, tobacco companies spent $503 million on marketing
smokeless tobacco. Teens, particularly teenage boys, are at risk. The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Ser-
vices Administration estimates that 1,000 men under the age of 18 use smokeless tobacco for the first time eve-
ry day.
The effort to ban smokeless tobacco on Major League Baseball ball fields is an effort to reach young males at risk
of using smokeless tobacco through culture. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, high
school athletes are nearly twice as likely to use smokeless tobacco than non-athletes, and that use is growing.
Earlier this year Truth Initiative joined representatives of 34 health organizations in calling on Major League
Baseball and the Major League Baseball Players Association to prohibit the use of all tobacco products at major
league venues.
Public health agencies and advocates are waging the fight against smokeless tobacco beyond the diamond as
well.
Data from the Food and Drug Administration’s Population Assessment of Tobacco and Health study indicates
that 31.8 percent of rural, white males 12-17 years old are at risk of using smokeless tobacco.
The FDA recently expanded its “Real Cost” campaign to educate rural, white male teenagers about the harms of
smokeless tobacco use with the message that smokeless is not harmless. The campaign is selectively targeting 35
U.S. markets, with a message focusing on real-world dangers of smokeless tobacco use, including health and cos-
metic consequences.
FDA will also partner with Minor League Baseball teams to help spread the message. Minor League Baseball
banned smokeless tobacco in 1993.
Getting smokeless tobacco out of baseball stadiums is a real home run and another example of how we can tap
California Lawmakers Vote To Raise Smoking Age To 21
The California Senate voted Thursday to raise the legal age to buy tobacco products from 18 to 21. The measure is part of a larger package of legislation aimed at cracking down on to-bacco.
If Gov. Jerry Brown signs the bill, California will become the second state, after Hawaii, to raise the age limit for buying cigarettes and other tobacco products. More than 100 cit-ies around the country, including New York and Boston, have
already raised the age limit. A week ago, the California Assembly approved the measure, which — in addition to rais-ing the age limit — regulates electronic cigarettes the same as tobacco products, expands smoke-free areas, increases smoking bans and allows counties to levy higher taxes on cig-arettes than the 87-cent per pack state tax. According to NPR member station KQED, the Assembly's vote came a few days after the San Francisco Board of Supervisors increased the age to buy tobacco products to 21. California lawmakers passed the bill despite lobbying from tobacco interests, the Associ-ated Press reports. The measure also faced opposition from many Republicans, who said the state should not be involved in policing people's personal choices.
"I don't smoke. I don't encourage my children to," said Republican Assemblyman Donald Wagner, according to KQED. "But they're adults, and it's our job to treat our citizens as adults, not to nanny them."
AROUND THE NATION New York City Raises Smoking Age From 18 To 21
But proponents of the bill say raising the age to 21 moves legally purchased tobacco that much farther from younger kids.
"This will save the medical system in the outgoing years millions of dollars," said Demo-cratic Assemblyman Jim Wood, according to KQED. "It will save thousands of lives."
As the AP reported, a 2015 study by the Institute of Medicine "found that if the minimum legal age to buy tobacco were raised to 21 nationwide, tobacco use would drop by 12 per-cent by the time today's teens reached adulthood. In addition, there would be 223,000 fewer premature deaths and 50,000 fewer deaths from lung cancer."
Kids who are frequently exposed to tobacco advertising are 60 percent more likely to have tried smoking.
In Montana, the tobacco industry spends more than $30 million each year on advertising; 90 percent is spent on in-store advertising.
The tobacco industry targets youth by selling smokeless tobacco and cigarillos in flavors like grape, cherry, strawberry and fruit punch.
E-Cigarettes
February 2016
Dangerous chemicals and even explosions have been l inked with e-cigarettes, which are unregulated
Over half of Montana high school students report having tried an electronic vapor product and 1 in 3 report currently using them.
Poison control center cal ls in the U.S. related to e-cigarettes have skyrocketed from 460 cal ls in 2012 to over 3,000 in 2015; 58% of these involve chi ldren under the age of five.
More than 1,600 Montanans die each year from tobacco -related disease. (TFK, 2015)
Every year, Montanans pay more than $440 million in medical expenditures attributable to smoking; busi-nesses pay more than $368 million in lost productivity due to illness and time off. (TFK, 2015)
20% of all adults in Montana smoke, and 43% of American Indian adults in Montana smoke. (BRFSS, 2014)
Montana adult males use spit tobacco at a rate that is almost double the national average (15% compared to 8%). (BRFSS, 2014)
13% of Montana youth are current cigarette smokers and 12% are current smokeless tobacco users. (YRBS, 2015)