WHAT: U.S. Surgeon General’s Report “Preventing Tobacco Use among Youth and Young Adults,” released today, calls on the nation to make the next generation tobacco-free.
A young person from the Amherst Youth Board and a Roswell Park Cancer Institute (RPCI) faculty member will provide local information regarding tobacco retail advertising and discuss its impact on children
WHO: Maansi Bansal-Travers, PhD, Behavioral Research Scientist at RPCI, and Marc Cohen, Amherst Youth Board member and Senior at Williamsville East High School
WHEN: Thursday, March 8 and Friday, March 9
To schedule an appointment, call 716-845-4919 or email deborah.pettibone@roswellpark.org
BACKGROUND:
Surgeon General Report: Key Messages:
- Smoking kills more than 1,200 Americans every day. And every tobacco-related death is replaced by two new smokers under the age of 25.
- More than a million dollars an hour is spent to market tobacco products in this country.
- Rates of decline for cigarette smoking have slowed in the last decade and rates of decline for smokeless tobacco use have stalled completely
Roswell Park Research
- Tobacco retail outlets are more densely concentrated in low income census tracts than high income census tracts
- 64.4% of all City of Buffalo schools have a tobacco retail outlet within 1,000 feet.
The full report is available at: www.surgeongeneral.gov and www.cdc.gov/tobacco
