Nuestras Voces Adelante
Resources to reduce tobacco use and availability.
Case studies, webinars, FDA action, publications, and tools for the professionals working to reduce commercial tobacco use.
Toolkits & Reports
Take it to the community.
Vaping and E-cigarettes: A Toolkit for Working with Youth
From the FDA's Center for Tobacco Products. E-cigarette use among youth remains a problem, and this toolkit gives professionals working with young people the facts they need to inform their communities about e-cigarettes and their effects.
State and Local Policies to Reduce Flavored Tobacco Use
Reversing the Tobacco Tipping Point Among Hispanic Youth. A comprehensive analysis of the increase in nicotine addiction among Hispanic youth driven by menthol cigarettes and other flavored tobacco and nicotine products, including e-cigarettes.
Case study: Decídetexto Puerto Rico
A pilot study assessing the feasibility and acceptability of a mobile-phone smoking cessation intervention in Puerto Rico.
Case study: Tailoring a workplace cessation intervention
A smoking cessation intervention developed specifically for Hispanic and Latino construction workers, to be implemented at their worksite.
Enforcement & Research
What regulators are doing.
FDA warning letters to online retailers
On February 1, 2024, FDA issued warning letters to 14 online retailers selling unauthorized disposable e-cigarette products, citing brands including Elf Bar/EB Design — the most commonly used e-cigarette brand among U.S. youth — along with Lava Plus, Funky Republic/Funky Lands, Lost Mary, Cali Bars, Cali Plus, and Kangvape.
E-cigarette use among Hispanics
October 12, 2021. "Reducing risk or recruiting new tobacco users?" published in Addictive Behaviors.
Webinars
From the archive.
Online Vaping Prevention and Education Resource Center
September 28, 2023. The Nuestras Voces Network and the FDA's Center for Tobacco Products presented results of a study on smoking behavior and susceptibility among U.S. Hispanic youth and young adults. The qualitative research explored how levels of acculturation relate to e-cigarette use — stress, discrimination, lack of social support, and family conflict all shape risk and protective factors — and introduced building blocks for effective prevention outreach.
Equity in the Smoke-free Policy Process
April 19, 2023. With ChangeLab Solutions, on how local smoke-free policymaking can be built by rather than for the communities served, driven by community priorities, informed by community partnerships at every stage, and enforced in ways that support individuals instead of causing unintentional harm. Panelists shared examples of Hispanic community partnerships behind successful smokefree campaigns.
Highlighting Hispanic/Latino Community Voices Through Multi-Level Collaboration
Examples of collaboration across local, state, and national networks on cessation support — with the North American Quitline Consortium on Hispanic quitline use, the Nuestras Voces Network on technical assistance, National Jewish Health on serving priority populations, the California Tobacco Control Program on funding community agencies, and the Latino Coordinating Center on local and state engagement.
Equity at the Tobacco Point of Sale
October 11, 2022. With ChangeLab Solutions, on how health equity can inspire local policy work and how point-of-sale strategies can build community power. Public health professionals from Savannah, Denver, and San Antonio shared firsthand experience implementing new policy strategies.