Tobacco users can:
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Quit.
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The sooner you quit, the sooner your body can begin to heal,and the less likely you are to get sick from tobacco use.
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Ask a health care provider for help quitting and visit the Colorado QuitLine at coquitline.org (Spanish: dejeloyacolorado.org) for free assistance.
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Find a step-by-step quit guide at www.smokefree.gov.
State and community leaders can:
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Fund comprehensive tobacco control programs at CDC-recommended levels.
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Enact 100 percent smoke-free indoor air policies that include workplaces, restaurants, and bars.
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Increase the price of all tobacco and nicotine products.
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Implement hard-hitting media campaigns that raise public awareness of the dangers of tobacco use and secondhand smoke and vape exposure.
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Use the World Health Organization's MPOWER strategies to prevent and reduce tobacco use and to make tobacco products less accessible, affordable, attractive and accepted:
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M = Monitor tobacco use and prevention policies.
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P = Protect people from tobacco smoke.
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O = Offer help to quit.
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W = Warn about the dangers of tobacco use.
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E = Enforce restrictions on tobacco advertising.
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R = Raise taxes on tobacco.
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Parents and people who don’t smoke can:
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Make your home and vehicles smoke- and vape-free.
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Not start, if you aren't already using tobacco.
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Quit if you smoke or vape.
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Children of parents who smoke are twice as likely to begin smoking.
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Teach children about the health risks of smoking and vaping and secondhand smoke and vape.
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Encourage friends, family, and co-workers to quit.
Health care providers can:
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Ask their patients if they use tobacco or nicotine.
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If they do, help them quit.
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Refer patients interested in quitting to the Colorado QuitLine, smokefree.gov, or other resources.
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Advise all patients to make their homes and vehicles 100 percent smoke- and vape-free.
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Advise individuals who don’t smoke to avoid secondhand smoke exposure.
Employers can:
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Establish a policy banning the use of any tobacco product indoors or outdoors on company property by anyone at any time.
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Provide all employees and their dependents with health insurance that covers support for quitting with little or no co-payment.
Retailers can:
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Learn the new Food and Drug Administration restrictions on youth access to tobacco products and tobacco marketing to youth, and closely follow them.
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Never sell any tobacco product to customers younger than 21. Check the photo ID of any customer trying to buy tobacco products who appears to be 26 or younger.