Tobacco Endgame Matters

• Achieving Endgame Within the AANHPI Community

  In this episode, Krishna Marme, SPARC Coordinator for Asian Pacific Partners for Empowerment, Advocacy and Leadership (APPEAL) and Luci Latu, Director for Taulama for Tongans, bring their wealth of knowledge and experience to discuss how to best partner with the Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander (AANHPI) communities in California. Together, they offer strategies that tobacco control advocates and community organizers will find useful and talk about opportunities to generate momentum in doing so. They also share their personal experiences as members of the AANHPI community and what they envision for a tobacco-free future. 

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• The Vital Role of Community Health Workers in Public Health Efforts

  In this episode, you’ll hear from Michelle McGarry, Tobacco Programs Supervisor at the Center for Well-Being, and Deborah Virgen, Community Health Worker (CHW) based in Santa Rosa, CA. Together, Michelle and Deborah talk about their personal experience with and as CHWs, and the labor of love that it requires from interested individuals. They also discuss how CHWs play an integral role in public health and how the momentum created by CHWs can be used to fight Big Tobacco.

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• Commercial Tobacco is a Violation of Human Rights

  In this episode, Kelsey Romeo-Stuppy, Managing Attorney at Action on Smoking and Health, and Charles Debnam, Deputy Chief Executive Officer at Community Wellness Alliance, discuss how commercial tobacco impedes on basic human rights and what advocates can do to effect change. You'll also learn about a major lawsuit against the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for its lack of regulation on menthol cigarettes. 

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• Fighting a Different Fire: Tobacco and Nicotine-Use among Rural Fire Professionals

  In this episode, you'll learn about the FRANTIC Project from Patrick Gallagher, Health and Wellness Manager at Metro Fire, Scott Jennie, National State Director and California State Director of the Firefighter Cancer Support Network, and Elizabeth Meza, Health Communications Specialist for the FRANTIC Project. Guests in this episode share initial findings from their research efforts and how it informs their steps towards interrupting the initiation of smokeless tobacco use among rural firefighters.  

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• What to Know About Working With Tribal Communities to Phase Out Commercial Tobacco

  In this episode you'll hear from Ravena Soto, Project Coordinator for the Tribal Community Coordinating Center at ETR, Rachel Reif, Youth Engagement Coordinator for the La Jolla Band of Luiseño Indians, and Kortni Bennett, Project Coordinator for California's Clean Air Project. Our guests explain the difference between traditional and commercial tobacco, internal challenges for implementing tobacco policies, and the priorities that drive tobacco control efforts within tribal communities. 

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