Extinguishing the Tobacco Epidemic in Virginia [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:
  VIRGINIA KEY FACTS
  
  In 2015, 22.7% of Virginia high school youth reported currently using any tobacco product, including e-cigarettes. Among Virginia high school youth, 8.2% reported currently smoking cigarettes.
  
  PUBLIC HEALTH RESPONSE TO TOBACCO USE IN VIRGINIA
  
  There is no safe level of exposure to secondhand smoke. It causes stroke, lung cancer, and coronary heart disease in adults. Virginia is a state where local communities are prevented from enacting ordinances to protect people from secondhand smoke in workplaces, restaurants, and bars. However, the state is able to work with locations, such as colleges and public housing authorities, to voluntarily adopt and implement smoke-free building and campus policies. 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. Eight public housing facilities or complexes in Virginia have implemented a smoke-free housing policy. Additionally, 25 public school divisions and 3 colleges or universities in the state have implemented a tobacco-free campus policy.
  
  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:
  Virginia
• Pages in Document:
  2 unnumbered page
• Collection(s):
  Stephen B. Thacker CDC Library
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