Hispanic Health Leaders Heed Call to End Smoking
A feature on Latino Fox News shared that top health leaders in the Hispanic community have expressed agreement with the details of the recent Surgeon General Report released by Dr. Regina Benjamin. The report, entitled How Tobacco Smoke Causes Disease, indicates that there is no such thing as a safe level of exposure to cigarette smoke, and that the impact of the chemicals in secondhand smoke is immediate.
Latinos as a group are considered as least likely to smoke, but according to Hispanic health leaders, cigarette smoke is a “big issue” in their community.
Dr. Jane L. Delgado, president and CEO of the National Alliance for Hispanic Health, and advocacy group, said: “New data released this year shows that Hispanic eighth graders are now more likely to smoke than their peers… It is a recruitment of new smokers by the tobacco industry that must be shut down.”
