Run to the Rogue Quit Smoking
Challenge
Sign Up to Quit Before Taking to the Road in September
The Run to the Rogue Quit Smoking
Challenge is a five-month program to en
courage smokers to quit and to participate
in the Run to the Rogue on Sept. 8-10. Be
able to run farther and longer while hon
oring your ancestors.
Monthly drawings will be held and a
grand prize given away Sept. 7.
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Clinic
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CHA-MAY WEEYA - MEDICINE TALK
Siletz
Community
American Indians have the highest
rate of smokers
In American Indians, asthma is grow
ing fast.
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Secondhand smoke is the No. 1 trig
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ger for asthma.
The No. 1 prevention of asthma is
smoke-free homes.
Honor yourself, your family, and your
ancestors by quitting for health. To sign
up, contact De Anna Pearl, Tobacco Pre
vention and Education, at 541-444-9659
or 1-800-648-0449, ext. 1659.
For information and support, call the
Oregon Quit Line at 1-877-270-7867.
Council Approves Out-of-Area
Health Benefits
The Tribal Council has approved
Prior authorization by CHS is re
the following plan for using the 2005
quired and benefits must be used within
Out-of-Area Health Benefits.
90 days. Any funds not used within 90
To qualify, tribal members must be
days will be returned to the pool for
registered for health care with the Siletz
re-distribution. An individual can only
Tribal Health Department and reside
access benefits one time per year.
outside the tribe’s 11-county service
area. These funds are intended for tribal
members who are not eligible for Con
tract Health Services.
One of the following benefits is
available:
When calling for pre-authorization,
CHS will authorize for household
members only. Authorization will not be
granted for anyone not residing in your
household. Voice mail messages do not
hold funds; this must be a live contact.
Help Educate Students About
Personal Finance
SALEM, Ore. - The rising cost of
college is enough of a financial burden
for today’s students without additional
debt. Large, unpaid credit card bills only
push financial independence further into
the future.
Oregon State Treasurer Randall
Edwards recently partnered with The ABCs
of Credit Card Finance to send out an es
sential guide that helps Oregon teachers
educate students about credit cards.
“So much of life hinges on credit
scores today - mortgages, car loans,
insurance, even job applications,”
Edwards said. “It is imperative students
learn how to budget and use credit cards
to their advantage.”
The treasurer’s office recently sent
more than 1,000 packets of the one-hour
program to Oregon teachers. Edwards
hopes that teachers across the state will
take just 60 minutes to prepare students
for decades of financial independence.
“Sadly, even as the importance of
personal finance grows, the funding for
personal finance in high schools has dis
appeared,” Edwards said. “This 10-page
primer on credit cards is an easy and use
ful way for students to learn how to use
credit cards more responsibly.”
The Center for Student Credit Card
Education, Inc., produces the course
material.
April was designated as the national
financial literacy month. The Office of the
Treasurer also formalized a cooperative
relationship with the Oregon chapter of
Jump$tart Coalition, a national non-profit
aimed at giving people the lifelong skills
for making sound decisions about bud
geting, saving, and avoiding common
financial mistakes.
Highlights of Edwards’ Personal
Finance Tour included an announcement
in May about the kickoff of a statewide
Financial Fitness Tour that centers on
budgets, credit cards, saving for college,
and avoiding financial fraud.
Administrators at middle schools and
high schools who would like to be in
cluded in the tour can contact the Office
of the Treasurer at 503-378-4329.
Jump$tart Coalition can be found at
www.jumpstart.org. The Center for
Student Credit Card Education Inc. can
be found at www.cscce.com.
$400 Vision
$ 1,400 Hearing
$ 1,200 Dental
$ 1,000 Medical
Call CHS at 1-800-628-5720 or
541-444-1236, starting at 8 a.m. on
July 1, 2005. If you are not already
Plus $500 maximum pharmacy
registered for health services, please
call anytime to request an application.
through Pequot Rx
Smokers Puts Pets at Risk
As reported on the CBS Evening News, April 21, 2005
Sounds unreal right? An adult chim
Respiratory illnesses such as asthma,
panzee is getting sicker and sicker from
bronchitis, and a collapsing trachea are
smoking cigarettes that are thrown into
the most common possible causes of
his habitat in a South African zoo. Pets
chronic cough in dogs. The constant irri
are at the same risk in the homes of smokers,
tation eventually causes the trachea to lose
occasional smokers, and former smokers.
its round open shape. It begins to collapse,
Fluffy and Rover smoking cigarettes?
resulting in even more coughing and
No. The danger is the accumulation of
eventually death, according to author
secondhand smoke, ash, and dust that
Marilyn Pokorney (March 5, 2005).
holds up to 4.000 chemicals. This dust
and ash land on furniture and floors.
“Exposure levels in cats continuously
kept indoors may actually be higher than
those of human household members, who
Good and Bad News on
the Local Level
Good News! According to the Siletz
Community Health Clinic, there has been
a 40 percent reduction of secondhand
smoke exposure to children and youth.
A survey of all patients using the
clinic since 2(X)3 shows a dramatic reduc
tion of ETS exposure and climbing. This
includes less exposure to indoor pets as
often spend extended periods of time out
side their homes,” reported in Science
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well. We should celebrate the efforts of
conscientious smokers and non-smoking
Doily. “Cats become exposed by inhal
family members who encourage people
ing the smoke or by digesting it when they
to smoke outside the home and car.
groom themselves and lick particulate
Bad New! A large number of smok
ers between ages 18 and 64 still are smok
matter off their fur.”
Further, “Cats living in households in
ing, according to the SCHC survey. Adults
which a pack or more of cigarettes was
who smoke are role-modeling unhealthy
smoked per day had three times the in
practices for young people to follow.
creased risk compared with cats with no
Much like the chimpanzee in the South
household exposure,” says a study re
African zoo, mimicking is the No. 1 way
ported in the American Journal of Epide
of learning. So if you believe “monkey see
miology (Aug. 1).
monkey do,” you can make a difference
Dogs living in a smoking household
in a child's and pet’s life by quitting today.
have a 60 percent risk of getting lung cancer.
Contact DeAnna Pearl, Tobacco Pre
Nicotine is a highly toxic chemical. Some
vention and Education, at 1 -800-648-0449,
pets may suffer the effects of nicotine poison
ext. 1659, or 541-444-9659 if you have
ing when exposed to high concentrations.
any questions or need support in quitting.
June 2005
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