Tobacco cessation advocacy

So this is my smoking cessation advocacy.

The association that I decided to work with was the

American Lung Association and focus on their advocacy agenda.

Allah's core mission is to improve lung health and to

prevent lung disease Some ways they do.

This is by advocating for universal access to quality and

affordable health care coverage and access to lung cancer screening

and guidelines based asthma care.

Increased funding for research, prevention, diagnosis, treatment and cures for

all lung diseases.

And increase funding for public health infrastructure and programs that

impact lung health.

Some key facts about smoking is smoking is the number

one cause of preventable death in the US, and it

in smoking related diseases kill 480,000 people per year, and

it smoking also costs the U.

S. About $289 billion per year.

Cigarette smoke contains more than 7000 chemicals, at least 69

of which are known to cause cancer.

Smoking is responsible for approximately 90% of lung cancer deaths

and approximately 80% of deaths caused by chronic obstruction pulmonary

disease. And out of daily smokers, 78 had smoked their

first cigarette by the time they were 18 and 94

had smoked their first cigarette by the time they turned

21. So here's some smoking rates, um, the status from

2017 and 14% which is approximately 34.3 million of adults.

18 years of age and older were current cigarette smokers,

more men smoke than women and 15% 15.8% of men

in 12.2% of women smoke daily, 7.6% of high school

students and 2.1% of middle school students were current cigarette

users. And the surveillance was highest among American Indians and

Alaska natives at 24.6% and lowest among Asian Americans at

7%. Some ways to get involved to be an advocate

for smoking cessation is to call and share your story

with your representatives in Congress, Um, and send a letter

to your local newspaper editor to educate the community about

the issues related to smoking, spread the word and spread

awareness on social media with information about smoking cessation, and

you can also make a donation to help fund lung

disease and lung cancer research, new treatments and lung health

education

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