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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Fewer Fargo High School students smoking, binge drinking
By Helmut Schmidt | Fargo Forum FARGO – The percentage of Fargo High School students taking up cigarette smoking is dropping fast, and fewer students are binge drinking. But other risks are coming to the fore, including what appears to be higher rates of depression and thoughts of suicide. Students also report a high rate of texting, […]
LLOYD OMDAHL: Legislature questions intelligence of voters
By: Lloyd Omdahl, Grand Forks Herald Measure 4 on the November ballot is the latest attempt by the Legislature to restrict citizen use of the initiative process by which voters can propose measures for a vote of the people. If passed, it would prohibit the secretary of state from putting on the ballot any citizen […]
Raise tobacco tax to discourage kids
By KATHLEEN DONAHUE Bismarck Almost all tobacco users became addicted before age 26. Thousands of kids try their first cigarette every day. In recent years, declines in youth smoking rates have stalled and the use of other tobacco products by youth has actually increased. The tobacco companies are aware of these trends and spend millions […]
Concordia campus goes fully tobacco-free
By Grace Lyden | Forum News Service MOORHEAD – Following the lead of college campuses around the country, Concordia College at Moorhead is now fully tobacco-free. As of Aug. 18, the college prohibits the use, sale or distribution of cigarettes, cigars, pipes, hookahs, electronic cigarettes and any other smoking products, as well as smokeless tobacco […]
CVS stops selling tobacco, offers quit-smoking programs
Jayne O’Donnell and Laura Ungar, USA TODAY CVS Caremark plans to stop selling tobacco products in all of its stores starting Wednesday — a move health experts hope will be followed by other major drugstore chains. CVS announced in February that it planned to drop tobacco by Oct. 1 as the sales conflicted with its […]