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    • Our Kids
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    • Secondhand Smoke
    • STORM Youth Coalition
    • How to Help
    • Show Support
    • Resources

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  • Our Kids
  • E-Cigarettes
  • Secondhand Smoke
  • STORM Youth Coalition
  • How to Help
  • Show Support
  • Resources

The human brain is developing until around age 24.  Nicotine can rewire the youth brain and those changes can be permanent. The changes from nicotine affects attention, anxiety and memory all of which can affect learning. (8)

Del Norte's Youth

Each day more than 3,200 people younger then 18 years of age smoke their first cigarette. As of 2021, between 11-58% of Del Norte County youth, report current use of e-cigarettes. (2) 

Talk with Your Teen About E-cigarettes

 Download the tip sheet below with facts so you can have a conversation with the children in your life about the harmful effects of e-cigarettes.

Tip sheet (pdf)

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Tobacco and Marketing

Marketing to Kids


Not only are the tobacco companies targeting our kids through the flavors, but they also use lucrative contracts to ensure that many retailers are marketing their deadly products. They are especially marketed at point of sales next to the candy, forcing customers including children to see them and get  them curious about tobacco.  

43% of schools are close to a store that sells tobacco