Mecklenburg County's Tobacco Prevention and Control team promotes culturally appropriate and best practice strategies to reduce deaths and health problems due to tobacco use and exposure to secondhand smoke or e-cigarette aerosols. All residents in our community deserve a healthy home, workplace and community where tobacco use is no longer the social norm.
Our initiatives focus on four goals:
- Eliminate exposure to secondhand smoke and e-cigarette aerosols through tobacco-free environments.
- Ensure that tobacco users are connected with resources to help them quit and building capacity for evidence-based tobacco treatment.
- Prevent youth initiation of tobacco use.
- Address tobacco-related disparities in populations with higher tobacco use rates.
How to Talk to Youth About Vaping
One-night Infotainment Event | Tuesday, October 26, 6 - 7 p.m.
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Mecklenburg County Public Health and Livable Meck invite parents, educators, faith leaders, coaches, and anyone who works with or cares about young people to this Facebook Live! event. You know the negative health impacts of vaping – now learn how to talk to young people in an effective and compassionate way to prevent/stop vaping.
This virtual "Engagement Café" will be presented in a
high-energy game show format facilitated by Queen City Quiz Show. Participants include local influencers and residents as contestants, with audience members watching and engaging through Facebook Live via Livable Meck’s Facebook page.
Please help us promote
this important conversation. 
Download and print this flyer to share with your family, friends, and community.
Click here for more programs and resources on youth tobacco and vaping prevention.
Contact
For more information, contact Kim Bayha, Tobacco Control and Prevention Program Supervisor, at 704-614-7805 or
Kimberly.Bayha@MeckNC.gov.
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Mecklenburg County Public Health encourages all eligible residents ages 12 and older to get a free COVID-19 vaccination.