{"id":801017,"date":"2019-11-04T16:45:31","date_gmt":"2019-11-04T23:45:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/?p=374008"},"modified":"2019-11-04T16:45:31","modified_gmt":"2019-11-04T23:45:31","slug":"letter-to-the-editor-vote-yes-on-1a-to-help-curb-teen-nicotine-use-in-summit-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/local-news\/letter-to-the-editor-vote-yes-on-1a-to-help-curb-teen-nicotine-use-in-summit-county\/","title":{"rendered":"Letter to the editor: Vote yes on 1A to help curb teen nicotine use in Summit County"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/06\/LettersWebCard-SDN1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>As of May 2019, the U.S. Surgeon General reports, \u201cTobacco<br \/>\nuse is the leading cause of preventable death in the United States and<br \/>\nworldwide. \u2026 Over the past five decades, (tobacco use) has killed ten times the<br \/>\nnumber of Americans who died in all of our nation\u2019s wars combined. \u2026<br \/>\nPrevention efforts must focus on young adults ages 18 through 25, too. Almost<br \/>\nno one starts smoking after age 25. Nearly 9 out of 10 smokers started smoking<br \/>\nby age 18, and 99% started by age 26.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The 2016 U.S. Surgeon General report states, \u201cAs cigarette<br \/>\nsmoking among those under 18 has fallen, the use of other nicotine products,<br \/>\nincluding e-cigarettes, has taken a drastic leap. All of this is creating a new<br \/>\ngeneration of Americans who are at risk of nicotine addiction\u201d due to easier<br \/>\naddictive properties during adolescent brain development (ages 9-25 years).<\/p>\n<p>We also know based on U.S. Surgeon General studies that<br \/>\nincreasing price is the most effective tobacco control intervention.<\/p>\n<p>We also know that Colorado is \u201cin the lead\u201d for young people<br \/>\nnicotine product use, to include vaping, compared to the U.S. average.<\/p>\n<p>I just listed a bunch of facts \u2014 so what? Well, if you\u2019ve<br \/>\nbeen paying attention to local media or attending Summit Board of County<br \/>\nCommissioners, town council or community meetings this past summer and fall,<br \/>\nyou know we have ballot Measure 1A heroes in our midst, \u201cbanging a drum\u201d for<br \/>\ntobacco\/nicotine prevention using proven methods. These young women and men are<br \/>\nSummit High School students who are a part of the Youth Empowerment Society of<br \/>\nSummit under the Communities that Care coalition. So let\u2019s listen to their<br \/>\n\u201cbeat\u201d and vote yes on 1A!<\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019re curious (and you should be), catch some convincing<br \/>\nwords from a few of our young heroes at youtu.be\/PbCi7ceHoRc.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/opinion\/letter-to-the-editor-vote-yes-on-1a-to-help-curb-teen-nicotine-use-in-summit-county\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Summit Daily<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As of May 2019, the U.S. Surgeon General reports, \u201cTobacco use is the leading cause of preventable death in the United States and worldwide. \u2026 Over the past five decades, (tobacco use) has killed ten times the number of Americans who died in all of our nation\u2019s wars combined. \u2026 Prevention efforts must focus on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[99],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-801017","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-28 01:13:38","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/801017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=801017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/801017\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=801017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=801017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=801017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}