Encourage friends, family, and coworkers to quit using tobacco
These can be added to weekly DIY hair masks or be ingredients in deep moisturizing shampoo and conditioners
Pamela Valera, an assistant professor in the Department of Urban-Global Public Health at the Rutgers School of Public Health, is leading efforts to change both
With less saliva to wash away food particles, neutralize acids, and remineralize enamel, plaque accumulates faster in smokers, and that plaque readily absorbs additional tar pigments, creating a self-reinforcing cycle of increasingly severe staining
Grantees work toward commercial tobacco-free environments like smoke-free multi-unit housing, reducing youth access to commercial tobacco products, and promoting quitting and commercial tobacco use treatment