Our Organization
The mission of Tobacco Free North Dakota is to improve and protect the public health of all North Dakotans by reducing the serious health and economic consequences of tobacco use, the state's number one cause of preventable disease and death.
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Partners
With reductions in funding and the closure of BreatheND (with the repeal of 2008’s Measure 3), the support of our Partners and Members is crucial for us to be able to continue our fight for North Dakota’s first tobacco free generation!
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Coalition
Tobacco Free North Dakota is focused on building partnerships with individuals who and organizations which support tobacco prevention efforts and policy changes that protect the public from the dangers of tobacco use.
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Tobacco Is No Longer Tolerated at Valley City Parks
On the heels of a state wide smoking ban in public places, a North Dakota city is taking it one step further. Tobacco use is now against the law in city parks and several other city-owned areas in Valley City. Valley News team’s Eric Crest clears the air on where smoking is, and is not, […]
E-cigarettes forging new pathway to addiction, death and disease
By Ross P. Lanzafame and Harold P. Wimmer – Redwood Times Electronic cigarette use among middle school children has doubled in just one year. Last month, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced that e-cigarette use also doubled among high school students in one year, and that one in 10 high school students have […]
Too many American teens are smoking 'little cigars,' report says
Melissa Dahl, NBC News They look like cigarettes, and they’re just as harmful as cigarettes — but “little cigars” are much cheaper, and they come in flavors like chocolate or candy apple, which makes them very attractive to kids, experts say. Now, for the first time, kids’ use of flavored little cigars has been tracked […]
To quit smoking, he sketched a cigarette every time he wanted to light up
By Cara Pesek / World-Herald staff writer On May 12, at 9:31 a.m., Brian Tait opened a small, homemade notebook and drew a small picture of a cigarette. Normally at that time, he would have smoked a cigarette. But Tait was trying to quit, as he had tried to do many times before. This time, he was […]
Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel calls for huge cigarette tax increase
By Cheryl K. Chumley – The Washington Times Smoke ‘em if you’ve got ‘em — and then hurry and quit, because Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel is planning a massive tax increase on cigarettes. His proposed 75-cent increase would bring a pack of cigarettes in the Windy City to $7.42 a pack, the highest price in the nation, Fox News reported. But the […]