Policy Areas
Retail Environment
marketing of tobacco products drives youth initiation and health disparities–and there are policies to reduce exposure to this harmful marketing.
Tobacco-Free Housing reduces inequitable secondhand exposure to tobacco use at home.
Educational Messaging
drives community readiness for policy change.
Tobacco-Free Outdoors
protect the public from secondhand exposure and promote a tobacco-free norm.
Other Tobacco Products
such as smokeless tobacco, hookah, and e-cigarettes threaten public health gains.
Laws of New York, at the state and local levels, regulate the sales and use of tobacco products.
Youth Initiation
of tobacco use is driven by retail marketing in community stores.
Tobacco Litigation
is a powerful tool available to public health advocates to protect necessary federal, state, and local tobacco controls.
Health Equity means that everyone has a fair and just opportunity to lead a healthier life.
Healthy Food Retail
provides individuals and families with nutritious, accessible food choices close to home.
Cancer Screening
can increase survivorship, reduce health care costs, and help maintain a healthy and productive workforce.
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Coming up at @UAlbanySPH Dissertation Defense: Evaluating the impact of density of #tobacco retail outlets for patients w/ #mentalhealth & #diabetes conditions in New York State. Amani Alharthy, DrPH Candidate
Friday, June 11th, 2021 via ZOOM at 2:30 pm.
Food and nutrition are not “Social Determinants of Health.”
They are Determinants of Health: the top overall determinants, in fact.
Time to stop considering Nutrition Security as peripheral, tangential, or “nice to have“ in healthcare. It is primal, foundational, must have.
New research shows "nicotine pouches have similar pH and nicotine content to conventional tobacco products. Although they lack many tobacco-related chemicals, most are highly flavored which could increase experimentation from new users." https://academic.oup.com/ntr/advance-article/doi/10.1093/ntr/ntab030/6285126#.YLYbGaUJhYo.twitter