We are a group of citizens that are dedicated to creating a tobacco free community.
Our Mission
We encourage a tobacco free Del Norte by educating the community and empowering youth to create healthy change.
Cigarette smoking is responsible for more then 480,000 deaths per year in the United States, including 41,000 deaths resulting from second hand smoke. This is about one in five deaths annually or 1,300 deaths every day.
Del Norte County Smoking Statistics
California state average of residents that smoke is 12.2%.
In 2014 Del Norte County’s smoking population was 16.7%. In 2016 it went up to 20.5%.
Now Del Norte County's smoking population is at 24.7%. It has gone up 8% in 4 years. Del Norte is double the average of California. (1)