Extinguishing the Tobacco Epidemic in Oregon [2017]

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• Corporate Authors:
  National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion (U.S.). Office on Smoking and Health. ; Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.)
• Description:
  OREGON KEY FACTS
  
  In 2015, 31.4% of U.S. high school youth reported currently using any tobacco product, including e-cigarettes. Among U.S. high school youth, 10.8% reported currently smoking cigarettes.
  
  PUBLIC HEALTH RESPONSE TO TOBACCO USE IN OREGON
  
  There is no safe level of exposure to secondhand smoke. It causes stroke, lung cancer, and coronary heart disease in adults. Oregon has a comprehensive smoke-free law that prohibits smoking in all indoor areas of workplaces, restaurants, and bars that has been in effect since 2009. In 2015, the state prohibited the use of electronic cigarettes indoors. Since that law was adopted, Oregon has continued to inform efforts to protect residents from exposure to secondhand smoke. Upon request, the state provides research, data and analysis, and scientific consultation to communities, multiunit housing operators, hospitals, businesses, and colleges and universities that want to protect residents from secondhand smoke. Currently, 6 of 7 public universities and 7 of 17 community colleges have tobacco-free or smoke-free campuses in Oregon. Twenty of Oregon’s twenty-two public housing authorities prohibit smoking on all their properties. All state parks are smoke-free and all mental health and residential addiction treatment facilities that receive state funds are 100% tobacco-free.
  
  For more information on tobacco prevention and control, visit cdc.gov/tobacco.
  
  
• Subjects:
  Financing, Governmental Tobacco Use Cessation
• Series:
  National Tobacco Control Program (NTCP) State Fact Sheets
• Document Type:
  Text
• Name as Subject:
  National Tobacco Control Program (U.S.)
• Genre:
  Fact Sheet
• Place as Subject:
  Oregon
• Pages in Document:
  2 unnumbered page
• Collection(s):
  Stephen B. Thacker CDC Library
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