Press Releases

2007

Secondhand smoke exposure effects on Youth

2006

• Retail tobacco inspections help reduce sales to underage buyers

   

• Random retailer inspection visits target underage tobacco sales

   

2005

• New statewide school policy protects kids from health risks of tobacco; helps reduce number of new youth smokers

   

• Funding for Oregon's tobacco prevention efforts is stalled

   

• Retail tobacco inspections to begin 11th year in early January

   

2004

State program, partners take aim at reducing dangers of tobacco smoke to babies and children -- A pilot project to raise public awareness of secondhand smoke's dangers to babies and children is being launched in the Portland, Bend and Medford areas.

 

2003

• Use principles of Kwanzaa to quit smoking

   

• Free Quit Line helps make New Year's resolutions real -- Trained specialists await phone calls from callers who want to call it quits on tobacco and smoke no more in 2004

   

• Oregon welcomes return of tobacco prevention program -- Successful toll-free Quit Line resumes after an eight-month hiatus.

   

• Oregon suspends successful tobacco prevention program this month -- Quit Line closes April 7, paid advertising suspended, staff laid off statewide.

   

• Report shows Oregonians' tobacco use declining faster than the rest of the nation -- New tobacco prevention report shows big drops in tobacco use; especially among Oregon's youth and pregnant women.