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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Study finds cigarette alternatives may not be safer than cigarettes
UC Davis Researchers Examine E-Cigarettes, Cigars, Hookah Written By CATHERINE MAYO If you’ve ever been convinced to smoke hookah — or anything else for that matter — because someone told you it was completely safe, you aren’t alone (but you’ve been lied to). Are smoking alternatives as safe as people think? UC Davis pulmonary physicians recently […]
Flavors lure 42% of young smokers
By Wendy Koch , USA TODAY Two of every five youth smokers use cigarettes or look-alike cigars that are flavored, says a U.S. government report Tuesday that’s intensifying the call for federal control of all tobacco products including electronic cigarettes. Of middle-school and high-school students who currently smoke, 42.4% reported using menthol cigarettes or flavored little […]
Aldermen mixed on Emanuel cigarette tax hike
By John Byrne and Hal Dardick Clout Street Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s proposed 75-cent-per-pack cigarette tax increase is getting mixed reviews from aldermen today. The increase in the city’s cigarette tax is projected to bring in about $10 million. Some aldermen questioned that figure, however, saying the higher tax would result in more black-market and across-the-border […]
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 […]