The latest data from CDC shows that LGBT people smoke at rates
68% higher than the general population. With such high tobacco use rates within
our community, you would think that there are efforts taking place across the
country to help members of our community break the nicotine habit. Commonly
cessation efforts do not reach out, or even speak to our communities which
considering the tobacco use rates in our community is quite troubling. Every
day we go to work we are striving to make a difference, helping our friends,
family, and even strangers through our programming focused on reducing tobacco
use within our community, and helping to counter the tobacco industrys
practices as they are searching to recruit thousands of daily smokers to make
up for the ones they (and we) have lost. I have never smoked but I have plenty
of friends and family who have broke the nicotine habit and many more who are
in the process or thinking about quitting.
I say all of this to
celebrate CDC for taking steps to be more inclusive of their outreach methods
to help all people break the nicotine habit. There is a new blog up today from
Dr. Scout on HuffPost Gay Voices which we are thrilled to share: CDC Reaches Out to LGBT People
in Smoking Cessation Ads. Click the link and make sure you share
it on twitter, facebook, email etc. It's about getting the word out there, and
hopefully we all can help our friends, family, and loved ones take that next
step in their quit journey.Posted by Fenway Health reposted at http://www.tobaccodeathray.blogspot.com
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