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Make Parenting a Pleasure
Succeeds with Weekend Retreat
Make Parenting a Pleasure is a positive
approach to family relationships. It helps
parents learn skills that improve their
relationships with the whole family. Topics
include taking care of oneself (the parent),
listening and communication, stress
management, and child development. This
information then becomes the “tools" in a
parent’s toolbox for discipline.
Discipline really means to teach. What
all parents want is to teach their children to
become whole, healthy, independent adults.
Sometimes discipline focuses on
punishment and the true goal gets lost. This
program helps parents focus on discipline
in a positive light, and gives them a chance
to practice and problem solve for their
own families.
Thirty-one parents and parents-to-be
attended the retreat held at the Salem-area
Head Start school. They brought their 30
children with them. All meals were provided,
plus lodging for those from outside the
Salem area. This retreat also gives families
time to relax and participate in family
centered activities.
Community health advocates from the
area offices also did presentations on health
and safety issues, such as car seats,
poisoning, second-hand smoke and baby
bottle tooth decay. Many thanks to everyone
involved - both the presenters and
the participants. Let’s keep Siletz
children healthy!
Participants enjoy the parenting retreat:
(left) Jade Brown-Godfrey and Alika visit
with Ashley McClintock and Jesse; (top)
Seth, Hunter, and Allison Nobel, and
Darcy Jones; (above) Lisa Werth and
Jeanna Harrington play with Kaitlyn
Harrington in the pool.
Tobacco in Any Form is Dangerous
by Danelle Zosel-Sanderson
World No-Tobacco Day
Celebrated throughout the United
States and the world, World No-Tobacco
Day (May 31) encourages governments,
communities, groups, and individuals to
sponsor community activities in concert with
more than 191 countries across the globe.
The national and international media
attention surrounding World No-Tobacco
Day helps promote and reinforce
local efforts.
safer than cigarettes. It contains dangerous
chemicals, including cancer-producing
ones. Long-term smokeless tobacco users
begin to develop oral tissue abnormalities
within a year. Smokeless tobacco can result
in non-cancerous and precancerous oral
lesions, gum recession, gingivitis, tooth
caries, abrasions, and stains.
Passive Smoke
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Tobacco Facts
Tobacco smoke contains more than
4,000 identified chemical compounds, 43 of
which are known to cause cancer in humans
or animals. The terms “light" and “mild" are
grossly misleading because they imply a
healthier cigarette or tobacco product.
Smokers regulate their nicotine intake by the
intensity, volume, or frequency of puffing to
get their desired nicotine dose. Smokers
who do not quit in their early 30s have a 50
percent chance of dying of a tobacco-
related disease.
Smokeless Tobacco
There are two forms of smokeless
tobacco - oral snuff (“dip”) and chewing
tobacco (“chew”). Smokeless tobacco is not
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Environmental tobacco smoke (passive
smoke) is a Group A carcinogen that
causes 30 times as many lung cancer
deaths as all air pollutants combined.
Exposure to passive smoke increases
the risk of lower respiratory tract
infections, asthma, ear infections, and
Sudden Infant Death Syndrome
in children.
Health Risks
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Nicotine produces cancer.
Nicotine causes increased heart rate,
blood pressure, and blood flow from the
heart; narrowing of blood vessels;
decreased oxygen in the blood;
increased fatty acids, glucose, cortisol,
and other hormones in the blood; and
increased risk of hardened arteries and
blood clotting.
Pregnancy and Smoking
Pregnant women who smoke are at
much greater risk of miscarriage, stillbirth,
pre-term delivery, low-birth-weight, and
infant mortality. If a pregnant woman stops
smoking before pregnancy or during the first
three or four months of pregnancy, the risks
of low-birth-weight are reduced. Although
using the nicotine replacement patch during
pregnancy is controversial, many experts
agree that the benefits of quitting outweigh
the potential toxicity of nicotine found in
NRT treatments.
For additional information, contact:
American Association for World Health
1825 K Street, NW, Suite 1208
Washington, D.C. 20006
Phone: 202-466-5883
Fax:202-466-5896
Email: staff@aawhworidhealth.org
www.aawhworldhealth.org
If you or anyone you know is interested
in Smoking Cessation classes, please
contact the community health advocate in
your service area or Danelle Zosel-
Sanderson at 1-800-648-0449 or
541-444-1030.
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