TOBACCO 101

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TOBACCO 101

• Tobacco 101
• Health Effects
• Tobacco Industry
• Second Hand Smoke
• Surgeon General Report
• Public Health Approach
• Clean Air Project
• UO Survey Results
• Why Go Smoke Free
• Resources

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Tobacco is the Leading Preventable Cause of Death
in the U.S.
JAMA, March 10, 2004 Vol 291, No.10
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Its Going Global

• Second major cause of death in the world - about
  5 million deaths each year
• 10 million deaths each year by 2020.
• Half the people that smoke today -650 million
  people- will eventually be killed by tobacco.
• World Health Organization

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The Cigarette
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The Human Impact
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Old News Smoking is BadIt causes

• Lung cancer, the leading cause of cancer death
• Coronary heart disease, the leading cause of
  death in the U.S.
• Oral cancer
• Pharyngeal cancer
• Laryngeal cancer
• Esophageal cancer
• Bladder cancer

• Sudden cardiac death of all types in men and
  women
• Stroke, the third leading cause of death in the
  U.S.
• 90 of deaths attributed to COPD
• 20 to 30 of low birth weight babies

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Old News Secondhand Smoke is BadExposure
causes

• Lung cancer in non-smokers
• Pneumonia Bronchitis
• Sudden Infant Death Syndrome
• Asthma
• Ear Infections

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New Findings from the Surgeon General 2004
2006

• Smoking causes
• Stomach Cancer
• Kidney Cancer
• Cervical Cancer
• Pancreatic Cancer

• Exposure to Secondhand Smoke causes
• Premature death and disease
• Immediate adverse effects on the cardiovascular
  system

There is no risk-free level of exposure to
secondhand smoke. The U.S. Surgeon General has
concluded that breathing even a little secondhand
smoke poses a risk to your health.
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How many people does tobacco kill each year?
440,000 Plus 35,000 from secondhand smoke
Oregon 6,933 Plus 800 from secondhand smoke
Lane County 683 Average of 2 a day
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Benefits of QuittingAfter your last cigarette
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After your last cigarette
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Impact of Tobacco Industry
Impact of Tobacco Industry
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Environmental Impact of Tobacco Industry

• Deforestation - Half a million acres of forest
  are lost to tobacco farming each year
• Pesticides - Poison ground water supplies,
  deplete soil fertility, and impact health of
  tobacco farmers
• Tobacco industry ranks 18th among all industries
  in the production of chemical waste
• 2.1 billion pounds of cigarette filters were
  discarded worldwide in 1998

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What is Second Hand Smoke?

• Combination of side stream smoke (comes from
  burning tobacco), and mainstream smoke (comes
  from exhaled smoke). Also known as Environmental
  Tobacco Smoke.
• Contains over 4000 chemicals, some of which are
  carcinogens (cancer causing).

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New Findings from the Surgeon Generals Report,
2006

• There is no risk-free level of exposure to
  secondhand smoke
• The U.S. Surgeon General has concluded that
  breathing even a little secondhand smoke poses a
  risk to your health.

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6 Major Conclusions from the Surgeon Generals
Report

• There is no risk-free level of exposure to
  secondhand smoke.
• Secondhand smoke exposure causes disease and
  premature death in children and adults who do not
  smoke.
• Exposure of adults to secondhand smoke has
  immediate adverse effects on the cardiovascular
  system and causes coronary heart disease and lung
  cancer.
• Children exposed to secondhand smoke are at an
  increased risk for sudden infant death syndrome
  (SIDS), acute respiratory infections, ear
  problems, and more severe asthma.

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Continued

• Eliminating smoking in indoor spaces fully
  protects nonsmokers from exposure to secondhand
  smoke. Separating smokers from nonsmokers,
  cleaning the air, and ventilating buildings
  cannot eliminate exposures of nonsmokers to
  secondhand smoke.
• Millions of Americans are still exposed to
  secondhand smoke in their homes and workplaces

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What is being done to combat Secondhand Smoke?

• 23 states have gone smoke free in their
  workplaces, bars, restaurants. Some have even
  enacted stricter laws that prohibit smoking in
  parks, beaches and housing to avoid secondhand
  smoke exposure.

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Public Health Approach
Cessation resources, Education
Peer mentoring, De-normalization campaigns,
Smokefree homes
Individuals
Clean Indoor Air Laws, Smokefree Workplaces
Tobacco taxes, Labeling laws, Laws against
selling to youth, Ad bans
Social, Family, and Community Networks
Living and Working Conditions
Broad Conditions and Policies
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Clean Air Project

• Tobacco use and Second Hand Smoke

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Mission

• To eliminate exposure to second hand smoke,
  through creating a smoke-free policy for the
  entire University of Oregon campus.

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Clean Air Project Activities
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305 Campuses have gone Smoke Free Here are just
a few!

• Arkansas (All Public Colleges and Universities ,
  33)
• University of California - San Francisco
• Gainesville College
• Gainesville State College
• Boise State University
• Indiana University, Bloomington
• Indiana University, East Campus
• Bismarck State College
• Jamestown College
• Minot State University
• University of North Dakota
• Miami University
• Oklahoma City University
• Indiana University/Purdue University,
  Indianapolis
• Purdue University North Central
• University of Indianapolis

• University of Iowa
• Minnesota State University
• Oregon Health Science University
• Portland Community College
• Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education
  (14 campuses)
• University of South Carolina
• Austin Peay State University
• East Tennessee State University
• University of Wisconsin - Plattville
• Winona State University
• Des Moines University
• Graceland University
• University of Kentucky going Fall 2009.
• Boise State going Fall 2009.
• University of Central Oklahoma July 1 2010.

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Why Go Smoke Free?

• Second-hand tobacco smoke kills and causes
  serious illnesses.
• 100 smoke-free environments fully protect
  workers and the public from the serious harmful
  effects of tobacco smoke.
• The right to clean air, free from tobacco smoke,
  is a human right.
• Most people in the world are non-smokers and have
  a right not to be exposed to other people's
  smoke.
• Surveys show that smoking bans are widely
  supported by both smokers and non-smokers.

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Why Go Smoke Free?

• Smoke-free environments are good for business, as
  families with children, most non-smokers and even
  smokers often prefer to go to smoke-free places.
• Smoke-free environments provide the many smokers
  who want to quit with a strong incentive to cut
  down or stop smoking altogether.
• Smoke-free environments help prevent people
  especially the young from starting to smoke.
• Smoke-free environments cost little and they work
  
• http//www.who.int/tobacco/communications/events/w
  ntd/2007/smoke_free/en/index.html

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Campus Concerns about Second- Hand Smoke

• Asthma, or other sensitivities to smoke

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Campus Concerns..

• Litter cigarette butts make up a majority of
  campus litter, and takes years to biodegrade.
• UO facilities estimated that it costs 8,000 to
  10,000 per year or a minimum of 200 hours to
  clean up cigarette butts and an additional 800 a
  year to empty out the smoker's posts.

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Campus Concerns

• Fires second to cooking fires, fires started by
  cigarettes are the most common on college
  campuses.
• (Picture) Authorities blamed the fire on a lit
  cigarette left on a couch outside this apartment.
  

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Campus Concerns

• Clean Air the U of O prides itself on being an
  environmentally conscious university, but how can
  it stand for the enormous amount of pollution
  that secondhand smoke creates?

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Campus Concerns

• Smoking creates a less productive workforce
  smokers are absent 50 more than non-smokers.
  Also, those who smoke increase healthcare costs,
  due to their increased illnesses from smoking
  (ttac.college.org)

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Benefits to a Smoke Free Campus

• Clean air, free of carcinogens, and asthma
  inducing particles.
• Healthier, more productive student body and
  faculty.
• Healthy future work force.
• Lower healthcare costs.
• Less litter on campus grounds.
• Less risk of fires in housing and outdoor areas
  around campus.
• Less likely for students to start smoking.

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2007 UO Student Survey Results

• 62 of students said they have never smoked.
• 81 of students either do not smoke or have not
  smoked in the last 30 days.
• 69 of students reported they were bothered by
  second hand smoke on UO campus.
• 86 agree or strongly agree that the right to
  breathe clean air should take precedence over the
  right to smoke.
• 22 of students reported using a tobacco
  substance.
• 18 of student smoke (even a little bit).
• 4.4 of students report being daily smokers.

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Faculty/Staff Smokers (2007 survey results)

• 5 of campus staff/faculty reported being a
  smoker.
• Of the 5 only 1 reported being a daily smoker.
• 63 of respondents said they were somewhat or
  very concerned about second hand smoke.
• 90 somewhat or strongly agree that the right to
  breathe clean air should take precedence over the
  right to smoke.

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2007 Faculty /Staff Survey Results
72 Somewhat or Highly Support a Smoke Free
Campus.
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Not so Extreme!!

• Changes that have been made over the last 20
  years
• - Smoke Free Flights/Planes in US
• - Smoke free indoor work places
• - Indoor smoke free Res Halls
• - Many countries have gone smoke free in work
  places, bars, restaurants including but not
  exclusive to Ireland, New Zealand, Scotland,
  Norway England and France.
• - Beaches, parks and whole cities have gone smoke
  free in California.
• - Workplaces are going smoke free on all their
  grounds (indoor and outdoor) example Sacred
  Heart Medical Center.
• In the last few years 23 states and
  commonwealth's have now gone totally smoke free
  in bars, restaurants and other workplaces.

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How you can become involved

• Sign up on our Clean Air Project facebook page.
• Sign a pledge, giving your support to the Clean
  Air Project.
• Come to our meetings, give your ideas, and help
  us create an initiative for policy change
  regarding smoking on campus property at the U of
  O.
• Spread the word about the benefits of a smoke
  free campus.

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For More Information

• Clean Air Project facebook page.
• Clean Air Project website(CAP) http//healthed.uor
  egon.edu/
• Contact Ramah Leith 346-0562 rleith_at_uoregon.edu
• Contact Paula Staight 346-2728 pstaight_at_uoregon.ed
  u

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Quitting Resources at the Health Center

• Smoking cessation packets.
• Pharmacy equipped with gum, patches and
  prescription medication.
• Advice and tips on quitting.
• Physicians for smoking evaluations and
  prescriptions.
• Counseling center for addiction therapy.