Money for Tobacco
The University of Southern Mississippi has recently created a new policy on January 1, 2018 that supports the campaign of a tobacco free campus. The new policy consists of Smoking and the use of tobacco are prohibited in or on all University owned, operated or leased property including vehicles. The current status of this change is effective. The University of Southern Miss is not the only school going tobacco free. Other schools like Jackson State University, Mississippi Valley State University, Hinds Community College, Tougaloo College, Alcorn State University, Coahoma, Community College, and Rust College.
Other than the Universities and colleges care about the students health the schools have an opportunity to receive some wealth. A grant was created by the CVS health foundation for schools in Mississippi going tobacco free on September 20,2017. The support of a total of 12 Million in grants from CVS health
foundation in partnership with American cancer Society and truth initiative went to those schools listed.
The University made a statement of why they decided to go tobacco free by simply stating under it’s mission “By becoming tobacco-free, The University of Southern Mississippi and its constituents will further the mission of wellness and send a clear message of USM’s commitment to a healthy lifestyle.” The University of Southern Miss is a small group of people compared to everyone in the state. Mississippi has come up with
“Cigarette smoking among adults in Mississippi was 22.6%. Nationally, the prevalence of cigarette smoking among adults was 17.5%,”according to truthinitiative.org. On July 1, 2006, all government buildings in Mississippi became smoke free according to no-smoke.org. More than 20 communities in Mississippi followed this act as well as restaurants and bars. Mississippi has had many programs in efforts to stop smoking. The RAT commercials are one of the many popular familiar slogans, “Reject all Tobacco.” Mississippi created this commercial to get the attention of younger audiences. Houston Texas on August 22, 2016 decided to come up with similar laws as Mississippi and ban smoking within 25 feet of the door entrances of public buildings. Smoking has so many bad end results for not only the smoker but the people around them as well. According to Betobbacoofree.org , the effects of smoking is serious enough to harm almost every organ in your body. This source said smoking cigarettes nearly kills one of every five people in the US. The source also talks about tobacco smoke contains more than 7,000 chemicals and about 70 of those cause cancer.
Cancer.org separates the two types of smoking by mainstream smoke and sidestream smoke. Mainstream smoke is the smoke that is inhaled by a smoker. Sidestream smoke is smoke from the lightened end of a cigarette, pipe, or tobacco burning in a hookah. This type of smoke has a higher concentrations of cancer. These smaller particles can make their way into the lungs much easier than mainstream smoke can. The true definition of second hand smoke is smoked inhaled involuntarily from tobacco being smoked by others.
Second hand smoke is just as dangerous as actually smoking a cigarette. According to Icanquit Second-hand smoke contains more than 7000 chemicals, with 69 cancer-causing chemicals. The website also talks about how second hand smoke Smoke that burns off the end of a cigarette called sidestream smoke may be even more toxic than the smoke inhaled by a smoker. Smoking may seem popular because of the amount of people in the world that smoke. People may think businesses and restaurants would suffer because of the ban of tobacco but according to canacer.org restaurants are cracking down and there has not been any real evidence that this has effective the restaurants in a negative way. The next issue would be how effective are e-cigarettes. E-cigarettes release a vapor by heating a solution containing water, nicotine, propylene glycol, vegetable glycerin and usually some flavoring.
According to an article about Electronic Cigarette Use among Mississippi Adults,
Most (71.2%) of current e-cigarette users and over half (52.1%) of those who have ever tried e-cigarettes reported that a main reason for trying or using e-cigarettes was “to cut down or quit smoking.” This article showed that the use of e-cigarettes does indeed work. Another article about e-cigarettes stresses the issue that vaping from the electronic cigarette could be just as bad for you as the real thing. This article also talked about electric cigarettes being the most popular idea to stop smoking. According to chealthcenter.org the state defines e-cigarettes to not be apart of the states statutes included in the definition of tobacco products. The state simply defines it as the alternative nicotine product. According to the Nicotine without smoke article. Electronic cigarettes can help you stop smoking and are less harmful than tobacco. The article says the damage of electric smoking can be less than 5% of the damage caused by smoking cigarettes containing tobacco. The Royal College of Physicians (RCP) report says that e-cigarettes should be widely promoted as a substitute to smoking.
If you or a loved one is trying to quit smoking Blue Cross Blue shields has the information on what to expect after quitting and more. in July 2011, all Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Mississippi Network Hospitals became tobacco-free.
