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Quit Tobacco Program
Free Quit Classes - Sign Up Here
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In Calvert County, about 1 out of every 7 adults smoke, and roughly 1 in 6 high school students reported smoking or vaping.
It is more important than ever to be informed about the effects of nicotine for yourself and for that important teen or pre-teen in your life.
Different packaging … same product!
Instead of just cigarettes, our community is now seeing vapes, pouches, and smokeless tobacco showing up in backpacks, lockers, and glove compartments. They all contain nicotine and nicotine causes many health problems.
Awareness begins at home and with you.
Calvert County Health Department provides education, support and tools to help you quit … click on a link below to learn more.
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5 TIPS to QUIT SMOKING // Want to quit but don't know where to start?
See Through the Mist: The Non-Consenting Vape Experiment
Big Tobacco knows that the teenage brain isn’t fully developed which means that if they can get them started early, they will likely have a customer for life. They spend billions of dollars every year that targets marketing towards that innocent, unknowing teen. They make it seem cooler than it is and necessary to do in order to “fit in” and be accepted among their peers.
Their marketing of desensitization actually begins much, much earlier than teenagers because the more that a child sees something the more that it becomes normalized to them. And Big Tobacco’s goal? … to create “replacement smokers”. For each adult smoker who dies (mostly likely from a smoking related illness) a new nicotine user needs to be created so that Big Tobacco can keep rolling in the dough.
THIS is why they target the younger generation.
Simply put … the young, not yet fully developed brain gets hooked fast and hard because nicotine is highly addictive. Big Vape companies know this and start their campaign for “replacement smokers” early, dedicating billions of dollars to this effort so that they can maintain their profit margin.
See Through the Mist is doing what a lot of other campaigns are doing … trying to protect our teenagers. Protect them so that they can make an informed decision once their brain is fully developed and hold off until then. The idea is that we don’t want them paying the price for the rest of their lives for a decision they made when they were too young to truly understand the ramifications.
We do this because we care.
We care about every single teenager out there and want them to have their best life ahead of them.
That means protecting them NOW.
