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Many people think hookah is safer than cigarettes, when in fact, a typical one-hour hookah session can be equivalent to smoking 100 cigarettes. With hookah use rising in the U.S.—use among high school and middle school students rose by more than 50 percent from 2011 to 2015—is the perception that hookah is less harmful than cigarettes driving the increase?

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The Philadelphia Housing Authority has been recognized as a national leader in the effort to provide a healthy and safe smoke-free living environment by Arizonans Concerned About Smoking (ACAS) and the Arizona Smoke-Free Living Coalition.

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Research shows that when people quit tobacco while they are in treatment for substance abuse, they have better outcomes overall. Yet many treatment centers for people with substance abuse disorders, a population that smokes at much higher rates, don’t offer quitting services. Truth Initiative® researchers examined six years of data on substance abuse treatment centers to determine how many centers offer tobacco cessation services and what makes a center more likely to offer them. They analyzed a sample of more than 94,000 responses to the National Survey of Substance Abuse Treatment Services—an annual survey sent to nearly all substance abuse facility administrators—between 2006 and 2012 Read more... ...

When Dr. Steven Schroeder founded the Smoking Cessation Leadership Center in 2003, he knew smoking rates were high among people with mental illness and substance use disorders. “I called around to some of the experts and said, ‘Why aren’t you working with this population?’ They told me it was a lost cause,” said Schroeder, a founding board member of Truth Initiative®. “It bothered me that we were basically giving up on this population.” He and his organization set out to enlist more organizations serving people with mental illness to help them quit. He emphasized three points: tobacco use is the “number one killer of your clients,” secondhand smoke puts clinicians and their families at risk and “the tide is going against smoking.” Read more......