CME:1 AAFP-P:1 CNE:1/.30 CHES:1 NASW:1 CPEU:1 ACPE:1 (UAN-0025-9999-19-066-L01-P)
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After this session, attendees should be able to:
- Identify obstacles to tackling tobacco problems on campus, from challenges to preventing cigarette and e-cigarette use to the targeting of students by the tobacco industry.
- Discuss common myths students believe about cigarettes, e-cigarettes, and smokeless tobacco.
- Discuss e-cigarettes as a problem of both nicotine addiction and digital media addiction.
Program Abstract:
Although over 1750 colleges and universities in the US have become smokefree campuses, progress in reducing cigarette and and e-cigarette use has slowed. The prevalence of nicotine product use may be as high as 25%. Moreover, tobacco companies continue to recruit students at career fairs. This presentation provides refreshing strategies for college health professionals to reduce cigarette and e-cigarette use among students and staff and to diminish the influence of the tobacco industry on campus.
This session is partially sponsored by the American College Health Foundation Josh Kaplan Fund for Clinical Medicine.