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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Lab tests suggest some e-cigarette use may release high levels of cancer-causing formaldehyde
By MARILYNN MARCHIONE, AP Chief Medical Writer Using certain electronic cigarettes at high temperature settings could potentially release more formaldehyde, a cancer-causing chemical, than smoking traditional cigarettes does, new lab tests suggest. The research does not prove a health risk — it involved limited testing on just one brand of e-cigarettes and was done in […]
SAVE OUR SCOUTS – A CALL TO END PARTNERSHIP WITH BIG TOBACCO
The following post was written collaboratively by the 2014-2015 Legacy Youth Activism Fellows, in an effort to call for the end of the partnership between the Boy Scouts of America and R.J. Reynolds Tobacco. Each day, we interact with a world full of seemingly static realities. Because facets of the world we live in appear […]
E-cigarettes may promote lung infections
By Dennis Thompson, HealthDay News Vapor from electronic cigarettes may increase young people’s risk of respiratory infections, whether or not it contains nicotine, a new laboratory study has found. Lung tissue samples from deceased children appeared to suffer damage when exposed to e-cigarette vapor in the laboratory, researchers reported in a recent issue of the journal […]
Major cancer groups call for e-cigarette research, regulation
By John Nielsen, ScienceInsider One telling sign of the popularity of electronic cigarettes, or e-cigarettes, which allow users to inhale nicotine vapors without other harmful chemicals, arrived late last year: The editors of the Oxford Dictionaries declared “vape” their Word of the Year for 2014. Today, e-cigarettes earned another kind of notice: Two of the […]
Salt Lake County health study reveals big problem with inaccurate e-liquid labeling
By Wendy Leonard, Deseret News SALT LAKE CITY — An increase in emergency room visits and calls to the local poison control hotline has Salt Lake County Health Department officials concerned about e-liquid used in battery-operated electronic cigarettes. “You really have to treat it as a drug because it is fatal to a small child,” said Kathy […]