Saving Lungs Saving Lives

05/27/2016

Rockin' our new shirts for one last team picture (sadly missing Meriem and Raymond!) You won't find a more intelligent, dedicated, and fun-as-hell bunch!There's no doubt in my mind that there are great things in store for each and every one of the SLSL crew!

05/19/2016

Celebrating a successful year of to***co prevention with some burgers (but no brew). Thanks for all hard work this year SLSL!

05/13/2016

We had lots of fun yesterday at the UC Davis Mental Health Fair discussing ways that students can stay stress-free without to***co! Thanks to UC Davis NAMI for throwing an empowering and much-needed event to celebrate May as Mental Health Awareness month!

05/05/2016

http://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article75696152.html

Exciting news from the Capitol as Jerry Brown signed a number of new to***co prevention policies into law! These included raising the legal smoking age to 21 and defining e-ci******es as to***co products (meaning they can't be used in the same places that ci******es can't be used). This is an amazing victory for the health of our communities and for protecting the youth and young adults that the To***co Industry has been targeting for years.

Most of the bills go into effect staring June 9th.

Gov. Jerry Brown on Wednesday enacted California’s most significant new to***co regulations in decades, signing laws that will place tight restrictions on use of the increasingly popular e-cigarette and make California the second state to raise its smoking age to 21. But he vetoed one measure that w...

03/03/2016

https://ucrtoday.ucr.edu/35360

Secondhand smoke gets most of the publicity, but more and more research is showing the negative health effects of thirdhand smoke (the toxins that remain on surfaces, furniture, and clothes when cigarette smoke settles). This recent study out of UC Riverside showed that THS exposure can induce Type 2 diabetes in mice. THS is incredibly hard to remove and persists even if a smoker moves out, so this is very relevant to all the apartment tenants we are trying to protect from the dangers of to***co.

March 2, 2016: UC Riverside-led study has health implications for nonsmokers living in homes that have (or had) smokers.

12/04/2015

11/18/2015

11/14/2015

Are you ready to Takedown To***co? Thanks to SLSL and office intern Karishma, our Takedown To***co photobooth is looking sweet! Check out our booth next Wednesday 11/18 from 11am to 1pm while we get the word out for the Great American Smokeout. We'll have plenty of props including boxing gloves, foam swords, and Nerf guns (and capes!) so you can takedown to***co any way you want!

11/12/2015

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/12/nyregion/public-housing-nationwide-may-be-subject-to-smoking-ban.html

It's awesome to see smoke-free apartments making national headlines! We've talked about US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) supporting moves toward smoke-free housing in the past. Now they've proposed a ruling to make all public housing smoke-free. No one deserves to suffer from unwanted secondhand smoke in their home!

A proposed federal rule, announced on Thursday, opens the latest front in the long-running campaign to curb unwanted exposure to secondhand to***co smoke.

07/29/2015

News article regarding our Board of Supervisors presentation yesterday!

Yolo County is getting tough on e-ci******es. On Tuesday, the Board of Supervisors voted 4 to 1 to draft new restrictions on where you can use e-ci******es.

06/10/2015

Hot off the press! If you ride YoloBus (which is free for UCD undergrads btw) be sure to look out for these ads showing the truth about e-ci******es. They'll be on all 50 YoloBus vehicles very soon!