Taking Texas Tobacco Free is a workplace program that works with healthcare organizations to provide continued support and assistance to employees and to the vulnerable populations they serve.
JANUARY EVENTS AND RESOURCES
Health Resolutions: It's hard to believe 2022 is here. Here are some tips to stay accountable for your new year's resolutions. Write down a list of the top priorities you want to accomplish in the new year. Place the list in a high visibility place to keep top-of-mind throughout the year.
Breathe with Pride Coalition Meeting: We will reconvene starting February 2022. If you're interested in attending please contact us.
AAMA's Drive-thru community mobile food distribution: January 18, 2022; 204 Clifton St. Houston, 77011 11 a.m. - 2 p.m.
University of Texas Health Sciences Center of Public Health is currently running a pilot study called SmokefreeSGM to develop a text-message program to help current LGB smokers. Click here for more information.
Out Proud Free
Youth and young adults are particularly vulnerable to early nicotine use due to trauma. We also see how vulnerable populations have been given misinformation, sold products based on this misinformation, and ultimately are more susceptible to using tobacco products.Read More
The Tobacco Atlas
Tobacco kills millions each year and costs society trillions of dollars. Yet we have the proven tools to fight this scourge at every single stage of a tobacco product's existence. The Tobacco Atlas is a resource to help us understand both the problems and their solutions. Click here for more info.
Smoking is a Drag
High rates of tobacco use within the LGBT community are due in part to the aggressive marketing by tobacco companies that sponsor events, bar promotions, giveaways, and advertisements. Tobacco advertisements in gay and lesbian publications often depict tobacco use as a “normal” part of LGBT life. Read more
My Vaping Mistake: Alexander
Real teens. Real consequences. Watch how vaping affected Alexander’s life.
OUR MISSION
Breathe with Pride Houston Tobacco Prevention and Control Initiative works to reduce tobacco use among populations with the highest burden of tobacco-related health disparities by engaging in scholarly research, providing leadership at the city level to support smoke-free policies, and working in partnership to bring community-based interventions. Check us out
Breathe with Pride is a Houston Health Department (HHD) program. The department works in partnership with the community to promote and protect the health and social well-being of Houstonians and the environment in which they live. HHD is a full-service health department that not only performs all core functions of a Public Health Department but also many enhanced functions including initiatives to address health inequities. HHD services benefit all Houston residents but the department also takes additional steps to support those most in need, such as low-income mothers and children, the elderly, and minority populations. Most HHD functions serve the 2.3 million residents of the City of Houston but the scope and impact extend into Harris County’s population of 4.7 million people through the department’s Area Aging on Aging, Bureau of Youth and Adolescent Health, Project Saving Smiles, See to Succeed, immunization strategies, syndromic surveillance and HIV-STD surveillance. HHD’s laboratory also services a 17-county region. Learn more at HoustonHealth.org.
