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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15 Years Later, Where Did All The Cigarette Money Go?
by NPR STAFF Fifteen years after tobacco companies agreed to pay billions of dollars in fines in what is still the largest civil litigation settlement in U.S. history, it’s unclear how state governments are using much of that money. So far tobacco companies have paid more than $100 billion to state governments as part of the […]
Study: Light Smokers Face High Risk Of Early Death
(CBS ATLANTA) – Light smokers are not safe from the large life expectancy cuts that come from mild cigarette use. A new tracking study of health and smoking levels from 200,000 people finds that not only does smoking cut 10 years from a smoker’s life expectancy, but that even mild smokers will double their risk of […]
Letter: E-cigarettes will burn users in the long run
DR. THECKEDATH MATHEW BRIGHTON, Senior interventional cardiologist, Rochester Heart Institute E-cigarettes are real nicotine products, camouflaged in heat and vapor, carrying all the ill effects that nicotine could do on the cardiovascular system. Nicotine is a vasoconstrictor agent that produces spasm on the blood vessels, including the coronary arteries and the vessels in the brain, leading to […]
POV: Seven reasons the FDA should regulate e-cigarettes
By Kevin Keenan In a recent online blog post by Campaign for Tobacco Free Kids, it was clearly explained why e-cigarettes should soon be regulated by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The CDC recently reported that rates of electronic cigarette use among U.S. youths more than doubled from 2011 to 2012, when 10 percent […]
Smokers Are Using E-Cigarettes to Get High
By Eliza Gray @elizalgray Marijuana smokers are using electronic-cigarettes to get high, say local reports from across the country. Electronic cigarettes are a growing industry in the United States, having ballooned from $300 million in retail sales in the U.S. last year to $1.8 billion by the end of 2013, according to Bonnie Herzog, a senior tobacco […]