{"id":37869,"date":"2018-05-25T16:32:48","date_gmt":"2018-05-25T23:32:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eltecolote.org\/content\/?p=37869"},"modified":"2018-05-29T10:59:45","modified_gmt":"2018-05-29T17:59:45","slug":"vote-yes-on-prop-e-say-no-to-big-tobacco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eltecolote.org\/content\/en\/vote-yes-on-prop-e-say-no-to-big-tobacco\/","title":{"rendered":"Vote yes on Prop E, say no to big tobacco"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_37870\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-37870\" style=\"width: 5184px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/eltecolote.org\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/IMG_2664_WEB.jpg?quality=89&#038;ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-37870\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/eltecolote.org\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/IMG_2664_WEB.jpg?resize=5184%2C3456&#038;quality=89&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"5184\" height=\"3456\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/eltecolote.org\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/IMG_2664_WEB.jpg?w=5184&amp;quality=89&amp;ssl=1 5184w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/eltecolote.org\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/IMG_2664_WEB.jpg?resize=600%2C400&amp;quality=89&amp;ssl=1 600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/eltecolote.org\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/IMG_2664_WEB.jpg?resize=360%2C240&amp;quality=89&amp;ssl=1 360w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/eltecolote.org\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/IMG_2664_WEB.jpg?resize=768%2C512&amp;quality=89&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/eltecolote.org\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/IMG_2664_WEB.jpg?w=2000&amp;quality=89&amp;ssl=1 2000w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/eltecolote.org\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/IMG_2664_WEB.jpg?w=3000&amp;quality=89&amp;ssl=1 3000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-37870\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A child holds a box of Vanilla Wafers (left) and Vanilla Vape juice (right). Supporters of Proposition E argue that flavored tobacco products are designed to entice children. Courtesy of Sheila Hernandez<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A few years ago, I was checking my son\u2019s pants pockets; my usual routine, trying to keep candy and markers from ruining our washing machine. I was shocked and angry to find an e-cigarette, and even more upset to find that it was watermelon flavored, and decorated like a candy wrapper. \u00a0I couldn\u2019t help feeling like this was designed to attract my kid, much like Joe Camel, who public health activists fought to remove from the candy aisle in stores years back. <\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_37871\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-37871\" style=\"width: 399px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/eltecolote.org\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/IMG_9489_WEB.jpg?quality=89&#038;ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-37871\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/eltecolote.org\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/IMG_9489_WEB.jpg?resize=399%2C285&#038;quality=89&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"399\" height=\"285\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/eltecolote.org\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/IMG_9489_WEB.jpg?w=4838&amp;quality=89&amp;ssl=1 4838w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/eltecolote.org\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/IMG_9489_WEB.jpg?resize=600%2C429&amp;quality=89&amp;ssl=1 600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/eltecolote.org\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/IMG_9489_WEB.jpg?resize=350%2C250&amp;quality=89&amp;ssl=1 350w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/eltecolote.org\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/IMG_9489_WEB.jpg?resize=768%2C549&amp;quality=89&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/eltecolote.org\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/IMG_9489_WEB.jpg?w=2000&amp;quality=89&amp;ssl=1 2000w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/eltecolote.org\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/IMG_9489_WEB.jpg?w=3000&amp;quality=89&amp;ssl=1 3000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 399px) 100vw, 399px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-37871\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The author of the commentary, Roberto Ariel Vargas (third from left), with wife Maria Sanchez (far right), son Tonalli and daughter Aztaxelli. Photo: Gustavo Rodriguez<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Today, I have two teenagers in high school, and they tell me they know a number of their classmates who started \u201cjuul-ing\u201d to look cool, but are now hooked. A juul is one of the many vaporizers on the market now using flavored liquids to deliver addictive nicotine, in addition to formaldehyde and other toxic chemicals. My kids tell me cucumber and mint are the favored flavors at their school. <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mijo<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> admitted trying it, but said it was really strong, and he didn\u2019t like how it made him feel. I am thankful for that, at least.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In my work at University of California at San Francisco (UCSF), I help make sure the latest research makes a difference in the world by changing how we prevent and treat disease. For example: physicians discovered consumption of liquid sugar increases diabetes risk; we worked to inform policymakers how to get people to drink less sugar\u2014like with a soda tax. One current effort is to help people understand that e-cigarettes are not harmless; our researchers found that chemicals in e-cigarettes are harmful to our health. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Tobacco companies claim vaping helps people quit smoking; research shows vaping introduces a new generation of kids to candy flavored nicotine and makes them more likely to use tobacco for the rest of their lives. They aren\u2019t exactly the perfect tool for harm reduction for people who already smoke; they still increase cancer risk. Many teenagers and young adults are also using honey, grape and other flavored tobacco wraps for \u201cblunts\u201d; smoking marijuana in flavored tobacco, increasing their chances of addiction to tobacco and exposing them to the health harms of tobacco, including cancer. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Researchers also found the tobacco industry targets African Americans with marketing of menthols and that menthols actually increase the health harms of tobacco use. The <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.savingblacklives.org\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">African American Tobacco Control Leadership Council<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and the <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfcancer.org\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">SF Cancer Initiative<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (SFCAN) shared science with the San Francisco Board of Supervisors to inform a local ordinance\u2014with unanimous board support\u2014to ban sales of candy flavored tobacco products and menthols in San Francisco. The late Mayor Ed Lee signed this into law last summer.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">That sparked a backlash from the tobacco industry, which is trying to overturn the law with a June 5<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">th<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> ballot measure. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company is still the sole funder of the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.noprope.com\/?utm_source=googleadwords_PG&amp;utm_campaign=lbrsf&amp;utm_medium=DesktopSearch&amp;utm_content=adults&amp;gclid=EAIaIQobChMI8uDlrcaf2wIVFFmGCh0aqgkrEAAYAiAAEgJuEPD_BwE\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">No on E<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> campaign, and so far has spent over $11 million to fight this health policy passed by SF policymakers, claiming government overreach. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to UCSF professor Stanton Glantz, PhD: <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0\u201cthey never mention their true motivation: RJR wants to protect its sales of menthol and other flavored tobacco products.\u201d \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/sfkidsvsbigtobacco.com\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Yes on E<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0campaign so far has less than $2 million.\u00a0Donors include the Tobacco Free Kids Action Fund, Michael Bloomberg, the American Cancer Society, The American Heart Association and the American Lung Association.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In my opinion, this is a fight for social justice against large corporations who don\u2019t care about our health, but care about their profits. Targeting our children with candy-flavored products that we know are harmful to health is wrong! Targeting black folks with menthols, when we know menthol makes cigarettes an even worse threat to our health is an injustice! The tobacco companies say this is about consumer choice, that prohibitions don\u2019t work, but we only saw declines in smoking after we passed laws to ban smoking indoors, stopped allowing children to buy cigarettes with a note from their parent, banned sales of tobacco in vending machines. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ironically, tobacco is sacred to me. I use it in ceremony and for making offerings, in the traditions of my ancestors. But, my elders tell me: we don\u2019t need to smoke it to pray with it. And adding chemicals in a lab is no way to treat a sacred plant. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We need regulation to protect the health of the public, especially when corporations spend billions to sell their addictive products. On June 5, San Francisco voters get to decide who has your best interests at heart: RJ Reynolds, or the American Heart Association.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Roberto Ariel Vargas, MPH. <\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Mission Native<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>*Navigator, Community Engagement and Health Policy Program, UCSF<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">*Steering Committee Member, Chicano\/ Latino\/ Indigena Health Equity Coalition<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Clinical and Translational Science Institute<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">University of California, San Francisco<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">*Council Member, National Council of Research Advocates, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>\u00a0*title is \u00a0for identification purposes only and does not represent the position of the institutions or programs named<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few years ago, I was checking my son\u2019s pants pockets; my usual routine, trying to keep candy and markers from ruining our washing machine. 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