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The goal of the National Latino Tobacco Control Network (NLTCN) is to reduce tobacco-use disparities, associated premature deaths and disabilities among Hispanic/Latino (H/L) populations by creating a Network of community-based organizations, advocates, and public health experts in H/L communities to support evidence-based policies/practices in the areas of comprehensive policies, advocacy, prevention, cessation and exposure to secondhand smoke.
The Network has been funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) through a five year cooperative agreement as part of the National Network Initiatives. The National Latino Tobacco Control Network (NLTCN) started operating in July 2008. |
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- Between Two Worlds: How Young Latinos Come of Age in America. Pew Hispanic Center (December 11, 2009). This report takes an in-depth look at Hispanics ages 16-25, a phase of life when young people make choices that -- for better and worse -- set their path to adulthood attitudes, values, social behaviors, family characteristics, economic well-being, educational attainment and labor force outcomes.
- Latinos Online: Narrowing the Gap. Pew Hispanic Center Pew Internet & American Life Project (December 22, 2009). From 2006-2008, internet use among Latino adults rose from 54% to 64%.
- Does Proximity to Retailers Influence Alcohol and Tobacco Use Among Latino Adolescents? Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health (November 20, 2009, Epub ahead of print). Alcohol and Tobacco (A&T) use was associated with distance from respondents' home to the nearest A&T retailer.
- Acculturation Differentially Predicts Smoking Cessation among Latino Men and Women. Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers and Prevention (December 2009). Greater acculturation predicted higher abstinence rates, but this relationship was restricted to men.
- Cognitive Susceptibility to Smoking: Two Paths to Experimenting among Mexican Origin Youth. Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers and Prevention (December 2009). The results suggest that tailoring primary prevention programs by a youth's susceptibility status may increase the efficacy of prevention efforts among Mexican origin youth.
- Exposure to Smoking Imagery in the Movies and Experimenting With Cigarettes among Mexican Heritage Youth. Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers and Prevention (December 2009). For Mexican-born youth, exposure to smoking imagery in the movies was the strongest independent predictor of new experimentation and may be an important part of the acculturation process associated with smoking initiation.
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- Comprehensive tobacco control policies and programs
- Promising and best practices for Hispanic/Latino (H/L) communities
- Mobilization of faith based organizations
- Outreach materials in Spanish and English on tobacco control
- Effective cessation programs for H/L communities
- Unitization of Promotoras (Health Promoters) for tobacco control
- Capacity building in local communities, training and technical assistance
- Evaluation, participatory research, assessments and analysis
- Youth mobilization and media advocacy
- Coalition building
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