Rochester Area Partners New York State Tobacco Control Program
The Burden of Tobacco Use and Secondhand Smoke
Smoking kills 25,500 people every year in New York State. Secondhand smoke kills 2,500 New Yorkers every year. Every year 570,000 New Yorkers are afflicted with serious disease caused by smoking. It is projected that 389,000 New York State youth age 0-17 will die from smoking.
Who We Are
The Rochester Area Partners of the New York State Department of Health Tobacco Control Program (NYTCP) implements evidence-based and promising strategies to prevent and reduce tobacco use. The NYTCP envisions a tobacco-free society for all New Yorkers.
Our 2010 Goal
The Rochester Area Partners are working towards creating a healthier place for New Yorkers to live. By 2010, there will be one more million more smoke-free New Yorkers living healthier, happier, richer lives. We will do this by:
- encouraging 900,000 adult smokers to quit
- preventing 100,000 youth from smoking
What We Do
- Use the most current research findings to drive program activities.
- Work collaboratively with state and national partners to ensure program goals are met.
- Implement hard hitting, emotionally evocative media campaigns to push smokers into cessation, educate the public about the dangers of second hand smoke and expose the deceptive practices of the tobacco industry.
- Implement policy changes to push smokers to cessation, keep the price of tobacco products high and implement tobacco dependence screening and treatment in all health-care settings.
Priority Issues
- [1] Eliminate exposure to secondhand smoke for all New Yorkers.
- [2] Decrease the social acceptability of tobacco use.
- [3] Promote cessation from tobacco use.
- [4] Prevent the initiation of tobacco use among youth and young adults.
- [5] Build and maintain an effective tobacco control infrastructure.
- [5] Contribute to the science of tobacco control.
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