Emerging health concern:
Learn about how smoking and vaping may increase risks from COVID-19

It is the Tobacco Prevention Program's mission to promote healthy people and healthy communities through effective cessation efforts, and preventing tobacco use, nicotine addiction and exposure to secondhand smoke.

JUUL and e-cigarettes

• For teachers: lesson plans, handouts and more
• E-cigarettes and vapor products
• How JUUL cornered the youth tobacco market
• Why e-cigarettes are so dangerous

Quit smoking today

• Beating nicotine addiction and quitting smoking
• Need help quitting? Call the quitline today

Learn the facts

• Tobacco and vapor product data, facts and other resources
  
• Download infographics

Report violations

• Report secondhand smoke exposure (apartments/condos)
  
• Report smoking law violations (public place/place of employment)
• Report sales of tobacco or vapor products to minors
  

Smoke-free environments

• Download no smoking signs
  
• Smoke-free housing
  
• Tobacco-free colleges
  
• Tobacco-free parks
• Tobacco policy surveillance

Laws, regulations and retailer information

• Tobacco laws and resources for tobacco retailers

Tools for partners

• For King County providers
  
• Local and national partner organizations
  
• Infographics and fact sheets

Flavored tobacco:
Candy-coated addiction

• Flavored tobacco appeals to youth
  
• Flavored tobacco infographic
  
• Menthol cigarettes infographic
• For teachers: lesson plans on flavored tobacco

Hookah smoking

• Not a safe alternative to cigarettes
• Hookah smoking infographic
• Carbon monoxide in hookah smoke
• For teachers: lesson plans on hookah prevention

Tobacco Cessation Training
Free online course for healthcare and social service providers

This module will teach you how you can improve the health of your community by giving you tools and information to address tobacco use.

You will learn how to use brief intervention and Motivational Interviewing techniques to encourage, empower, and assist people as they move toward a successful quit attempt.

See course objectives and how to register.

Link/share our site at www.kingcounty.gov/tobacco