Tobacco Resources
State and Local Policies to Reduce Flavored Tobacco Use: Reversing the Tobacco Tipping Point Among Hispanic Youth (3/18/24)
This comprehensive analysis reveals the alarming increase in nicotine addiction among Hispanic youth due to the consumption of menthol cigarettes and other flavored tobacco and nicotine products, including e-cigarettes.
Enforcement Action: FDA Issued Warning Letters to Online Retailers for Selling Unauthorized Disposable E-Cigarette Brands Popular Among Youth
(Brands included Elf Bar/EB Design, the most commonly used e-cigarette brand among U.S. youth)
On Feb. 1, 2024, FDA issued warning letters to 14 online retailers for selling unauthorized e-cigarette products. These warning letters cite the sale of disposable e-cigarette products marketed under the brand names including Elf Bar/EB Design, Lava Plus, Funky Republic/Funky Lands, Lost Mary, Cali Bars, Cali Plus, and Kangvape. Read More
Webinar: Online Vaping Prevention and Education Resource Center
September 28, 2023
The Nuestras Voces Network and the Food and Drug Administration’s Center for Tobacco Products partnered to deliver a webinar on the results of a study to better understand smoking behavior and susceptibility among U.S Hispanic/Latinx (hereafter Hispanic) youth and young adults. The study’s qualitative research explored how levels of acculturation is related to e-cigarette use among Hispanic youth and young adults. Due to factors experienced as part of the acculturation process such as stress, discrimination, lack of social support, and family conflicts, Hispanic youth may face diverse risk and protective factors connected to e-cigarette use. This webinar also introduced potential building blocks to put toward the development of effective outreach efforts for the prevention of e-cigarette use in this population group.
Webinar: Equity in the Smoke-free Policy Process
April 19, 2023
How can we embed equity in the process of selecting, developing, implementing, and enforcing smoke-free policies in our communities?
The National Alliance for Hispanic Health and ChangeLab Solutions delivered this webinar to explore how local smoke-free policymaking can:
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Be built by, rather than for, the communities that will be served;
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Be driven by community priorities;
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Benefit from community strengths;
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Incorporate community partnerships and guidance at all stages; and,
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Ensure that enforcement of policies — for example, in housing and in workplaces — supports individuals instead of causing unintentional harm.
Webinar panelists featured examples of how Hispanic community partnerships have contributed to successful and equitable smokefree policy campaigns.
Webinar: Highlighting Hispanic/Latino Community Voices Through Multi-Level Collaboration
This webinar highlighted examples of collaboration with local, state, and national networks to better serve and assist Hispanic/Latinx communities with cessation support. Participants included the North American Quitline Consortium on Hispanic utilization of quitlines; the Nuestras Voces Network on collaboration and technical assistance opportunities; the National Jewish Health on their approach to serving priority populations with cessation support; the CA Tobacco Control program on funding and partnering with community agencies serving priority populations to promote cessation; and, the Latino Coordinating Center on opportunities for engagement with local and state organizations to implement community-level initiatives and policy approaches to support cessation.
Webinar: Equity at the Tobacco Point of Sale
October 11, 2022
How can health equity inspire local policy work? What commercial tobacco prevention strategies at the point of sale can promote health equity? How can the policy process build community power? The webinar explored these questions to uncover how the policy process can build community power in local jurisdictions.
The National Alliance for Hispanic Health and ChangeLab Solutions partnered for this one-hour conversation on embedding equity in local policy efforts at the commercial tobacco point of sale. Public health professionals working in diverse communities including Savannah, GA; Denver, CO; and San Antonio, TX provided firsthand experiences on their work in this space to identify and implement new policy strategies and resources that promote equity.