Not An Experiment
Don’t treat your health like an experiment. Vaping has long-term health effects.
True North Strong
True North Strong. It’s not a lifestyle. It’s our life. It’s how we were raised. To know that respect is earned, not given. And our true north is free from cigarettes and chew. Free from addiction. Free from the lies. Free to live.
Smoke-Free Campuses
Comprehensive smoke-free campus policies make it easier for people to resist and quit smoking and can have a tremendous impact on the health of an entire campus community! Speak up, take action, and join the smoke-free movement at smokefreecampus.ca.
In 2018, McMaster became Ontario’s first post-secondary institution to adopt a 100% smoke-free policy. Since then, nearly half of the province’s public colleges and universities have implemented comprehensive smoke-free policies.
Momentum behind smoke-free post-secondary schools continues to grow, with even more campuses setting policy implementation.
Currently in the North East region, Algoma University is the only campus with a 100% Smoke-Free policy.
Unfiltered Facts North
We are youth engaged with public health working to provide peers with the uncensored and unfiltered facts about tobacco, vaping, and cannabis.
Use Your Instincts
Know the facts and use your instincts.
Topics include vaping, alcohol and cannabis facts and materials.
For support to quit smoking or vaping – check out the Cessation tab on Youth Apps and Support
Keep the Promise
In 2017, Indigenous young people from across our northeast region came together to share, learn, inspire, and encourage each other to work collaboratively in their communities to share the cultural significance and importance of sacred tobacco and alternatively the misuse of commercial tobacco. The compelling evidence of First Nation teen smoking rates empowered these young people to seek a change in their personal lives and the lives of those in their communities.
They chose to carry this work forward with the development and implementation of Keep the Promise, an initiative to provide a forum for Indigenous young people in the northeast and beyond to share their message.
Keep the Promise empowers Indigenous young people to build capacity and create resources which enhance knowledge and educate about sacred tobacco use in our northeastern Ontario communities, the negative impacts of commercial tobacco, the importance of de-escalation or cessation of commercial tobacco as well as the importance and use of traditional medicines in their lives.
Keep the Promise encourages healthy decision making, the building of meaningful relationships and the chance to recognize and identify local and community needs by using the power and influence they possess when they choose to work collaboratively in their communities to impact positive change.
This is My Tobacco
A collaboration between the Shkagamik-Kwe Health Centre and Public Health Sudbury & Districts, This is My Tobacco aims to educate youth and community about the traditional uses of sacred tobacco.
Learning about the importance of sacred tobacco can help people make better choices. For example, respecting the use of sacred tobacco may help prevent people from starting to smoke cigarettes.
To order a copy, contact:
Ryan Taggart, Director of Operations
Shkagamik-Kwe Health Centre
rytaggart@skhc.ca
705.675.1596