Clean Air Metro KC

11/27/2015

To***co 21 Approved

11/22/2015

http://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2015/11/20/Kansas-City-surrounding-county-raises-legal-smoking-age-to-21/1461448030238/

The legal age for smokers in Kansas City and Wyandotte County has been raised to 21 from 18.

11/20/2015

Congratulations To***co 21 Team!

11/20/2015

Kansas City , KS raised the age of to***co sales from 18 to 21. Two of the largest cities in the metro approved To***co 21 today! KCK and KCMO.

11/19/2015

Kansas City Council approved To***co 21 today! Congratulations KC.

11/19/2015

Join us Thursday at KCMO City Hall to support To***co 21

11/18/2015

KCMO council to vote Thursday on To***co 21. If approved it would be first city in the metro to approve.

11/12/2015

Public Housing Nationwide May Go Smokefree - Smoking would be prohibited in public housing homes nationwide under a proposed federal rule announced on Thursday, a move that would affect nearly one million households and open the latest front in the long-running campaign to curb unwanted exposure to secondhand to***co smoke.

11/09/2015

Pediatricians nationwide call for raising the age of sale of to***co products from 18 to 21.

The American Academy of Pediatrics Issues Sweeping Recommendations on To***co and E-Cigarettes - American Academy of Pediatrics

11/09/2015

Letter of the Week: Breaking a bad habit

What a fortunate surprise learning about the readiness of area communities to increase the age of to***co sale from 18 to 21 years old (10-23, A1, “KC effort aims to stop teens from smoking”).

After the increase of the to***co sale age, the Kansas City area would experience a significant decrease in to***co use among our adolescents and youth. To***co would be removed from 18- to 21-year-olds’ reach, hands and lungs.

To make sure we support the current 18- to 21-year-old smokers, we are ready to increase access to smoking-cessation interventions.

We would create opportunities to facilitate access to smoking cessation among younger smokers.

Our communities should aim at increasing knowledge about cessation treatment, including ni****ne patches, gum and lozenges and state-funded quit-line counseling support.

To reach a to***co specialist, go to www.kanquit.org or call 1-800-784-8669. We should also promote existing (text2quit) text-messaging programs designed to help smokers to quit.

These are exciting times.

Ana Paula Cupertino of Lee’s Summit was born and raised in Brazil. She is an associate professor at the University of Kansas Medical Center Department of Preventive Medicine and Public Health and director of the Juntos Center for Advancing Latino Health. She has an adult daughter and twin sons in high school.

10/22/2015

Even kids are endorsing To***co 21!