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The You and Me, Together Vape-Free curriculum includes 6 lessons, each providing activities, online quiz games, and worksheets in addition to presentations, resources, and other materials aimed at addressing key factors associated with youth e-cigarette use, including changing adolescents’ attitudes towards and misperceptions about e ...
The Tobacco Prevention Toolkit (TPT) is a research-informed and validated set of curriculums (download a 1-page overivew of TPT publications below) to help prevent students from starting or escalating use of any tobacco product. The goal is to:
17 kwi 2023 · Tobacco use remains the leading preventable cause of disease and death for adults in the United States. Significant strides have been made in reducing rates of cigarette smoking among adolescents in the United States. However, rates of e-cigarette and similar device use among youth are high, and rates of other tobacco product use, such as ...
2 dni temu · US teen tobacco use has reached a 25 year low with some 2.25 million young people in middle school and high school reporting they used tobacco products in 2024, down from 2.8 million in 2023. The fall was described by the US Centre of Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) as “an extraordinary milestone for public health.” For a report the CDC and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA ...
17 kwi 2023 · The AAP clinical report on health disparities in tobacco use and exposure details the key factors and structural barriers that drive some youth from communities that have historically experienced high levels of discrimination and stigma to initiate and use tobacco at disproportionately high rates. 17 Several studies, for example, have ...
17 kwi 2023 · Pediatricians are uniquely positioned to help children, adolescents, and their families live tobacco-free lives. Actions by pediatricians can help reduce children’s risk of developing tobacco and nicotine use disorder and reduce children’s tobacco smoke and/or aerosol exposure.
27 maj 2021 · Emic approaches might aid understanding of how young people might become addicted, what they need to stay smoke-free, and how policies can best help and protect them. In short, to inform policies to end the tobacco epidemic, we need approaches that are emic as well as etic.
