Tobacco Control Program

The tobacco industry spends $137 million per year to reach into every community in Oregon to promote and sell its products. In Oregon, children and adults are bombarded with messages pushing them to smoke cigarettes or chew tobacco.

The Deschutes County Tobacco Prevention and Education Program (TPEP) brings awareness, education and support to local people, businesses, organizations, and schools to counter tobacco marketing where it matters the most — in the places where people work, play, learn and live.

The program assists in creating successful tobacco policies and programs that promote smoke-free environments and communities. It also provides information to encourage people to quit and recover from their tobacco use. Program staff continually informs community members about the Oregon Clean Indoor Air Act so that people are aware of and adhere to the law while sharing in the responsibility of upholding it. This law and other local tobacco laws help protect people from secondhand smoke and make it harder for youth to buy tobacco products.

Please scroll down below for more information on our services and resources that are offered.

Deschutes County TPEP program is making a difference
Resources to help your or your loved ones recover from tobacco use
Assistance in implementing a tobacco free worksite
How to comply/filing a complaint with the Indoor Clean Air Act
Assistance in implementing a no-smoking policy in rental housing
Oregon Community College campus tobacco policies
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Deschutes County TPEP program is making a difference

Deschutes County TPEP has combined with community partners to assist advice and be a resource to the successful implementation of tobacco policies in the county. Some of the major successes are: 100% tobacco free St. Charles Medical Center, 100% tobacco free City of Bend downtown properties, 100% tobacco-free Bend Metro Parks and Recreation and 100% tobacco free Deschutes County Health Service Buildings.

The adult cigarette smoking in Deschutes County has remained steady at 14 percent from 2009-2011, dropping from the 18 percent of adults users indicated in the 2007 Deschutes county tobacco fact sheet.

According to the 2011 Deschutes County Tobacco Fact Sheet compiled by the State:

93 percent of Deschutes County adults report no-smoking rules in the home
92 percent of Deschutes County eight-grade students report that they live in a smoke-free home
61 percent of smokers made an attempt to quit last year.

But work still needs to be done as:

18,883 Deschutes County adults regularly smoke cigarettes.
4,471 people suffer from a serious illness caused by tobacco use
229 people die from tobacco use (22% of all deaths in Deschutes County)
$42 million is spent on medical care for tobacco-related illnesses each year

Resources to help your or your loved ones recover from tobacco use

OREGON TOBACCO QUIT LINE

The Oregon Quit Line now has a web site. For information about the program and to register go to:

www.quitnow.net/oregon/

You can also get started on Web Coach by calling the Oregon Quit Line

1-800-QUIT-NOW 1-(800)-784-8669
Spanish 1-(877)-2NO-FUME 1-(877)-266-3683
TTY: 1-(877)-777-6534

Additional tobacco recovery resources:

Smoke Free Oregon
Oregon Health Authority
Teaches people how to become experts in living without tobacco using "The 4 Essential Practices to Quit For Life," principles based on 25 years of research and experience helping people quit tobacco.

Guide to Quitting Smoking
American Cancer Society
To have the best chance of quitting and staying quit, you need to know what you’re up against, what your options are, and where to go for help.

Freedom from Smoking® Online
American Lung Association
A program specifically designed for adults, like you, who want to quit smoking.

Quit Smoking
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Support in quitting, including free quit coaching, a free quit plan, free educational materials, and referrals to local resources.

Tobacco Cessation
Office of the Surgeon General
New, effective clinical treatments for tobacco dependence and the latest information to help people quit smoking.

Smokeless Tobacco: Tips on How to Stop
American Academy of Family Physicians
Answers to frequently asked questions about quitting using smokeless tobacco.

Become an EX
National Alliance for Tobacco Cessation
The EX Plan is a free quit smoking program that helps you re-learn your life without cigarettes.

Smokefree.gov
National Cancer Institute
Smokefree.gov provides free, accurate, evidence-based information and professional assistance to help support the immediate and long-term needs of people trying to quit smoking.

QuitNet
HealthWays
QuitNet creates tailored smoking cessation and corporate wellness programs for public and private organizations.

Smoking
National Cancer Institute
Free help to quit smoking including smoking cessation counseling in English and Spanish.

MyLastDip
Oregon Research Institute
MyLastDip offers a family of unique research-tested, self-help programs designed specifically to help chewing tobacco users quit for good. MyLastDip programs are free to use.

Assistance in implementing a tobacco free worksite

Tobacco-free worksites provide workers and visitors with a healthy, smoke free environment. Tobacco users have found that tobacco-free worksites make it easier to quit.

http://www.smokefreeoregon.com/smokefree-places/worksites

How to comply/filing a complaint with the Indoor Clean Air Act

About the OREGON'S SMOKEFREE WORKPLACE LAW

The Oregon Indoor Clean Air Act [ORS 433.835 - 433.990] already requires most workplaces and public places to be smoke free indoors and within 10 feet of entries/exits, windows that open, and air intake vents, but the law does not cover smokeless tobacco products or workplace campuses beyond 10 feet.

Oregon's Smoke free Workplace Law protects nearly every Oregon employee from the health risks of secondhand smoke.

Municipalities, businesses and property owners can expand the law beyond the Smoke free workplace law.

http://public.health.oregon.gov/PreventionWellness/TobaccoPrevention/SmokefreeWorkplaceLaw/Pages/index.aspx

HOW TO COMPLY

Each business is required to post signs at each entrance providing notice that smoking is prohibited with 10 feet.

Signs are available through the Oregon Tobacco Education Clearinghouse at www.healthoregon.org/smokefree or by calling 1-(888)-412-1701