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• YRRS Connections: Important Tobacco Use Trends (health data) [+]
  The use of tobacco products during adolescence increases the risk for adverse health effects and lifelong nicotine addiction. We asked about current use of five tobacco products: cigarettes, cigars, spit tobacco, hookah, and e-cigarettes. While use of some forms of tobacco have decreased over the past decade, the addition of questions about newer forms of tobacco has presented a more complicated picture of tobacco use trends.
• Twenty-Four-Seven New Mexico (resource) [+]
  The 24/7 Campaign is a movement to make all schools in New Mexico 100% tobacco-free. Schools are places where youth learn, inside and outside the classrooms. Schools need to send the right message to students, which is why a 100% tobacco-free policy is important. A 24/7 tobacco-free school policy means prohibiting the use of any tobacco products anytime, anywhere, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
• Smoking and Tobacco Use: The Effects on Pregnancy and Child Health (publication) [+]
  This document explains the effects of smoking and tobacco use and the potential health outcomes for baby and mother.
• Youth Across New Mexico Advocate for Tobacco-Free Schools (news) [+]
  March 21, 2018 — Youth leaders at nine schools across New Mexico are hosting ‘Kick Butts Day’ events Wednesday to raise awareness about their schools’ tobacco- and e-cigarette-free policies. Increased awareness of tobacco-free school policies helps students, staff, and campus visitors comply with these standar...
• Dejelo Ya (resource) [+]
  One day, your world will be a more beautiful place. Quit now and thrive. Offers free help quitting tobacco including unlimited sessions with a trained quit coach and much more.
• Tobacco Use Prevention (resource) [+]
  Campaigns and resources to prevent youth and young adults from starting to use tobacco and vaping products.
• Quit Smoking Now (resource) [+]
  One day, your world will be a more beautiful place. Quit now and thrive. Offers free help quitting tobacco including unlimited sessions with a trained quit coach and much more.
• Free Services to Help New Mexicans Quit Tobacco (news) [+]
  December 30, 2013 — As New Mexicans gear up to tackle New Year’s resolutions, the Department of Heath offers a variety of new and free resources to quit tobacco in 2014.
• Family Planning VAST Guidebook (publication) [+]
  The New Mexico Department of Health is engaged in an initiative focusing on four major issues that impact the health and well-being of individuals, families and communities in New Mexico: Violence (family violence and sexual abuse), Alcohol, Substance Abuse and Tobacco use are issues that affect many people in our state.
• Second-Hand Smoke and Asthma Fact Sheet (publication) [+]
  This fact sheet explains how secondhand and third-hand smoke effects asthma, how tobacco smoke can trigger an asthma attack, how to protect yourself and your children, and provides tips on how to politely ask someone not to smoke around you.
• Asthma Triggers in the Car Fact Sheet (publication) [+]
  Second-hand smoke, even in small amounts, is proven harmful to children and adults. It can bring on an asthma episode. Children are most frequently exposed to second-hand smoke in the car and in the home. A top protection is to eliminate tobacco in the car and home. The best way to protect a child from second-hand smoke is eliminating smoking in the car and home.
• Free Resources to Help New Mexicans Quit Smoking (news) [+]
  November 18, 2015 — The American Cancer Society’s annual Great American Smokeout® is a day when smokers across the nation make a plan to quit, or plan in advance and then quit smoking that day. The Department of Health wants to encourage New Mexicans who smoke or use tobacco products to utilize free services avail...
• Free New Resources for Great American Smokeout (news) [+]
  November 19, 2014 — The New Mexico Department of Health encourages New Mexico tobacco users to use its free upgraded services available to help residents stop using tobacco this Thursday, November 20th during the American Cancer Society’s annual Great American Smokeout.
• NMDOH celebrates the implementation of the Tobacco Products Act (news) [+]
  December 17, 2020 — NMDOH celebrates the implementation of the Tobacco Products Act
• New Mexico Teens Work for Tobacco-Free Schools (news) [+]
  March 14, 2017 — Students across New Mexico will be hosting events at nine high schools on Wednesday, March 15th as part of the national Kick Butts Day. This is the 22nd year of the event that encourages all public schools in the state to work toward tobacco-free status – 24-hours a day, seven days a week.
• World No Tobacco Day is an opportunity for smokers to consider quitting (news) [+]
  May 30, 2023 — Tomorrow is World No Tobacco Day which provides an opportunity for smokers in New Mexico to make the decision to quit.
• Free Resources to Help More New Mexicans Quit Smoking (news) [+]
  November 17, 2016 — The New Mexico Department of Health offers valuable resources to help more New Mexicans quit and stay tobacco-free in conjunction with The American Cancer Society’s® annual Great American Smokeout® on Thursday November 17th. The Great American Smokeout is a day that encourages tobacco users acro...
• Local Teens Encouraged to ‘Kick Butts’ (news) [+]
  March 18, 2015 — Today is national Kick Butts Day, a national day of activism empowering youth to stand up and speak out about the dangers of not just cigarettes but all tobacco products. The day was created in 1996 by the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids and has been the focus of schools, youth groups and health advo...
• New Spanish-Language Anti-Tobacco Campaign (news) [+]
  October 29, 2014 — The New Mexico Department of Health is announcing the launch of its new Spanish-Language anti-tobacco campaign. Twenty-nine percent of New Mexican residents primarily or exclusively speak Spanish in their home. Research shows that a significant portion of this population is not aware that cessation...
• Nicotine Use Prevention and Control (resource) [+]
  Maybe you smoke with morning coffee, or on your breaks at work, or each time you drive. Take advantage of this chance to change your smoking habits and quit, even for one day.
• NM TUPAC (resource) [+]
  This is a link to the New Mexico Tobacco Use Prevention and Control Website
• Chronic Disease Prevention Council (resource) [+]
  Formed in 1997, The Chronic Disease Prevention Council is a multidisciplinary body of experts seeking to reduce chronic disease in New Mexico. Through quarterly meetings, the Council creates a forum for collaboration and communication to break down disease specific silos and focus on prevention and control issues for chronic diseases, including arthritis, cancer, diabetes, heart disease, stroke, and diseases related to obesity and tobacco use.
• Kick Butts Day (resource) [+]
  Join us and thousands of youth across the United States and on military bases around the world as we stand out, speak up and seize control against big tobacco.
• Alcohol, Tobacco, Drug Use Among Middle School and High School Students in the 2007 New Mexico YRRS (health data) [+]
  The YRRS was implemented in the fall semester of the 2007-08 school year. All public school districts in New Mexico were invited to participate in the 2007 YRRS. Of 89 districts statewide, 76 districts participated. From each participating school district, schools with students from 9th to 12th grades were selected to participate.
• YRRS Connections: Declining Trends in Risk Behaviors (health data) [+]
  Rates for several important risk behaviors have fallen dramatically among New Mexico high school students in recent years, according to the latest results from the 2013 New Mexico Youth Risk and Resiliency Survey (YRRS). _is encouraging news is most pronounced in areas related to alcohol use, tobacco use, and violence.
• PRAMS Tobacco Smoking 2019 (health data) [+]
  Smoking during pregnancy increases the risk of poor birth outcomes including miscarriage, preterm birth, low birth weight infant and birth defects of the mouth and lip.
• Air Quality Impacts Our Health (health data) [+]
  The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency uses particulate matter as the term for a mixture of solid particles and liquid droplets found in the air. Sources of particulate matter include dust, smoke, pollen, animal dander, tobacco smoke, particles generated from combustion products, chemical emissions from cleaning and maintenance products, furnishings, building materials, floor coverings. Particulate matter can also be generated by tiny organisms such as dusk mites, molds, bacteria, and viruses.
• YRRS Report 2011: Statewide High School Tobacco Use (health data) [+]
  Results of the 2011 New Mexico Youth Risk and Resiliency Survey, a collaborative project of the New Mexico Departments of Health and Public Education, reveal a decrease in the rates of several important health risk behaviors among the state’s public high school students. The prevalence of suicide attempts, cigarette smoking, binge drinking, and physical fighting have decreased significantly in recent years.
• YRRS Report 2007: Statewide High School Tobacco Use (health data) [+]
  The YRRS was implemented in the fall semester of the 2007-08 school year. All public school districts in New Mexico were invited to participate in the 2007 YRRS. Of 89 districts statewide, 76 districts participated. From each participating school district, schools with students from 9th to 12th grades were selected to participate.
• YRRS Report 2013: Statewide High School & Middle School Alcohol (health data) [+]
  Alcohol is the most commonly used and abused drug among youth in the United States, more so than tobacco or illicit drugs. Youth who start drinking before age 15 are five times more likely to develop alcohol dependence or abuse later in life than those who begin drinking at or after age 21 years. Binge drinking accounts for about 90% of the alcohol consumed by youth under the age of 21 in the United States.
• Quit Now @ 1-800-QUIT-NOW (hotline) [+]
  Tobacco users can access free cessation services in multiple languages through this toll free number.
• New Mexico Quit Line - Tobacco @ 1-800-784-8669 (hotline) [+]
  New Mexico Quit Line - Tobacco
• Dejelo Ya @ 1-855-DEJELO-YA (hotline) [+]
  Tobacco users can access free cessation services in Spanish through this toll free number.