Tobacco Free Gallatin - ENDING THE TOBACCO EPIDEMIC “ If we do not act decisively today, a hundred years from now our grand-children and their children will look back and seriously question how people claiming to be committed to public health and social justice allowed the tobacco epidemic to unfold unchecked.” Former WHO Director-General Gro Harlem Brundtland, MD, MPH Healthy People 2020 tobacco control objectives:Reduce tobacco use by adults and adolescents.Reduce the initiation of tobacco use among children, adolescents, and young adults.Increase successful cessation attempts by smokers.Reduce the proportion of nonsmokers exposed to secondhand smoke. Despite this progress, tobacco use remains the leading cause of premature and preventable death in our society. Worldwide, the tobacco epidemic killed 100 million people in the 20th century and is projected to kill one billion people worldwide in the 21st century. Each year, smoking kills more than five million people around the globe. In the United States, smoking kills an estimated 443,000 people each year, with secondhand smoke responsible for 50,000 of those deaths. The list of diseases caused by smoking has been expanded to include abdominal aortic aneurysm, acute myeloid leukemia, cataract, cervical cancer, kidney cancer, pancreatic cancer, pneumonia, periodontitis, and stomach cancer.

Gallatin County Tobacco Use Prevention

Ending the tobacco epidemic requires a renewed effort by all of us to change the social norm around tobacco use and reinvigorate a national discussion on tobacco use prevention and control efforts.

ENDING THE TOBACCO EPIDEMIC

“ If we do not act decisively today, a hundred years from now our grand-children and their children will look back and seriously question how people claiming to be committed to public health and social justice allowed the tobacco epidemic to unfold unchecked.”

Former WHO Director-General Gro Harlem Brundtland, MD, MPH

Healthy People 2020 tobacco control objectives:

Reduce tobacco use by adults and adolescents.
Reduce the initiation of tobacco use among children, adolescents, and young adults.
Increase successful cessation attempts by smokers.
Reduce the proportion of nonsmokers exposed to secondhand smoke.

Despite this progress, tobacco use remains the leading cause of premature and preventable death in our society. Worldwide, the tobacco epidemic killed 100 million people in the 20th century and is projected to kill one billion people worldwide in the 21st century. Each year, smoking kills more than five million people around the globe.

In the United States, smoking kills an estimated 443,000 people each year, with secondhand smoke responsible for 50,000 of those deaths. The list of diseases caused by smoking has been expanded to include abdominal aortic aneurysm, acute myeloid leukemia, cataract, cervical cancer, kidney cancer, pancreatic cancer, pneumonia, periodontitis, and stomach cancer.

Gallatin County Tobacco Use Prevention Program

404 West Main

Bozeman, Montana 59715