BP Adams To Host Emergency Round Table on Flavored Tobacco Products

Health experts, clergy, NYCHA, parents and kids discuss dangers of flavored tobacco products, including menthol cigarettes and e-cigarettes

NEW YORK, NY (09/24/2019) (readMedia)-- On Tuesday, Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams will host an emergency round table with health experts, clergy members, NYCHA Tenant Association leaders, children and parents on the dangers of flavored tobacco products in New York City.

New FDA survey data show youth use of e-cigarettes skyrocketed 135% in the last two years, and that 5 million middle and high school students nationwide now use e-cigarettes. In New York, 27.4% of high school students use e-cigarettes, compared to 4.8% who smoke cigarettes.

Last week, Governor Cuomo announced a temporary ban on flavored e-cigarettes-but did not include menthol. According to newly-released data from the 2019 National Youth Tobacco Survey (2019 NYTS), the percentage of high school e-cigarette users who reported using mint and menthol flavors increased to 63.9% in 2019 from 42.3% in 2017 and 51.2% in 2018. Menthol cigarettes are easier to start smoking, and harder to quit. More than half of kids who smoke cigarettes also smoke menthols.

There are two bills in the NYC Council - Intro. 1362 (Cabrera) and Intro. 1345 (Levine) - which together would restrict the sale of all flavored tobacco products, including e-cigarettes and menthols cigarettes.

WHO:

Borough President Eric Adams

Matthew Chin, Charles B. Wang Community Health Center

Michael Davoli, American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network (ACS CAN)

Kelly Sabatino, Public Policy Manager, Community Healthcare Network

Mark Hurley, American Heart Association

André M. Richardson, Campaign Manager for Flavors Hook Kids NYC Campaign

Chris Banks, ENYUCC

Darold Burgess, Present of Ingersol Tenants Association

Isabelle Lee, President of Walt Whitman Tenants Association

Lorraine Braithwaite-Harte, Health Chairman NAACP NYS Conference, 1st VP Brooklyn NAACP Branch

Jessie O’Brien Director of Quality at Phoenix House

Mimi Boublik, Parents Against Vaping e-cigarettes (PAVe)

Arthur Samuels, Executive Director of (MESA) Charter High School

Kids and parents
WHAT:

Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams to host an emergency round table with health experts, clergy members, NYCHA Tenant Association leaders, children and parents on the dangers of flavored tobacco products in New York City.
WHEN: Tuesday September 24, 2019 at 04:00PM Eastern Time (US & Canada)
WHERE: Brooklyn Borough Hall
209 Joralemon Street
Brooklyn, New York
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