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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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 […]
The poor more likely to smoke, research finds
By Alfred Lubrano PHILADELPHIA | Many people smoke after they’ve eaten. Lindell Harvey smokes because he hasn’t. “You smoke out of anxiety because you don’t have the food you need,” said Harvey, 54, who lives alone in Crum Lynne, Pa. He receives disability checks from the Navy that keep him $2,000 below the poverty line. Harvey […]
Emanuel wants 75 cents a pack cigarette tax increase
Mayor Rahm Emanuel plans to propose increasing the city cigarette tax by 75 cents to help plug a budget gap and provide more free vision care for low-income ChicagoPublic Schools students, a City Hall source said Saturday. The increase would leave Chicago with the nation’s highest total cigarette taxes. The administration expects to collect an additional […]