Public Health

• Protect the public from secondhand smoke
• Reduce youth access to tobacco products
• Counter the tobacco industry's deceptive marketing strategies
• Provide training and technical assistance to local organizations working on tobacco control
• Increase the number of smokers and chewers who quit tobacco

• Encouraging Sacramento County and local cities to adopt resolutions to support the FDA ban of flavored tobacco products.
• Assisting local college campuses in adopting 100% tobacco-free campus policies.
• Working with local youth and young adults to make Sacramento County tobacco free.
• Encouraging and assisting property owners and managers to make their multi-unit housing complexes smoke-free.
• Education to reduce secondhand smoke exposure in homes and cars.
• Increasing the number of businesses and organizations with outdoor smoke-free policies.
• Reducing tobacco industry sponsorships in the community.
• Increasing the number of cities in Sacramento County with Tobacco Retail Licensing Ordinances.
• Increasing and maintaining compliance with smoke-free workplace laws.
• Assisting smokers and chewers in quitting tobacco use.

​This program serves the entire community of Sacramento with specific resources for smokers, non-smokers, parents, youth, business owners, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT), and various races/ethnicities. The Chronic Disease Prevention Program is staffed by a program coordinator and health educators.

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