People are also referred to cessation help in their own communities. The report concludes smoking during pregnancy remains a problem. The state Department of Health is involved in a pilot project to help pregnant women stop smoking. The department is working with several local health departments and community organizations around Washington to provide cessation services to low-income women during and after their pregnancies. More teenage girls are smoking and tobacco-marketing efforts continue to influence them, according to the Surgeon General.
Tobacco companies spend billions of dollars to encourage people to use their deadly product.
In Washington, the health department is fighting back with the largest anti-tobacco media campaign ever in our state. Anti-tobacco ads on TV, radio, buses and billboards feature real people telling the horrible truth about how tobacco use has affected their lives. Too many women and men are dying because of tobacco use and we cannot let that continue. Send mail to the Webmaster.