New Spanish Language Kit On Secondhand Smoke Available From CDC
The Office on Smoking and Health (OSH) at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has released a new Hispanic/Latino community outreach kit called “Sabemos: Por respeto - Aqui no se fuma,” which means, “Out of Respect We Know Not to Smoke Here.”
Secondhand smoke kills an estimated 3,000 nonsmokers from lung cancer each year in the US.
Among the US Hispanic/Latino population, the smoking rate was approximately 16.2 percent in 2004 -2005. Because the Hispanic/Latino community is the largest minority population in the country, and is rapidly growing, tobacco use and exposure to secondhand smoke are increasingly important issues to address sooner rather than later.
The Sabemos kit:
- Provides community leaders with the tools to work effectively with Hispanic/Latino parents in discussing secondhand smoke and how it can affect them and their children;
- Includes Spanish- and English-language resources for conducting a multimedia campaign to reinforce healthy practices and extend protection to the community at large;
- Contains an Hispanic/Latino cultural overview, steps for creating smoke-free environments, and an interactive CD-ROM; and
- Was developed in conjunction with LCAT, the Latino Council on Alcohol and Tobacco Prevention, the only national organization dedicated solely to reducing the harm from alcohol and tobacco in the Latino community.
The kit is available from CDC. For more information, go to www.cdc.gov/tobacco/secondhand_smoke/sabemos/index.htm
Source: “Sabemos,” Community Outreach Tool Kit for Parenting Tobacco-free Hispanic/Latino Youth, Office on Smoking and Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, September, 2007.