About the Tobacco Free Guam Program

Tobacco use on Guam is prevalent as smoking plays a major role in the morbidity and morality of our people. The 2001 Behavioral Risk Surviellance data ranks Guam as having the highest adult smoking rate among all the states and territories. Our island's smoking rate of 31.2% even surpasses Kentucky, a tobacco producing state, whose smoking rate is 30.9%.

Data collected from the Department of Education’s 2003 Youth Risk Behavior Survey reveals:

	23.3% of middle school students are current smokers
	31.6% of high school students are current smokers
	395 of the 691 deaths occurring in Guam in 2001 can be attributed to the addictive, harmful, lethal habit of smoking.

The Tobacco Free Guam Program, through community interventions and mobilization, counter-marketing, policy development and implementation, and surveillance and evaluation, seeks to achieve the following program goals:

	Prevent initiation of tobacco use among young people
	Eliminate exposure to second-hand smoke
	Promote cessation among adults and young people who use tobacco
	Identify and eliminate tobacco-related disparities among specific population groups

Services Offered

	Tobacco Use Prevention and Control Presentations/Outreach
	Resource Center (Brochures, Displays, Educational Kits and Videos)
	Carbon Monoxide Screening

For More Information

To find out more about how we can help with your business or organization, please contact Mr. Eugene Santos, Program Manager at esnsantos@dphss.govguam.net.

Or call us at (671) 735-7399.

The Tobacco Free Guam Program web site is supported by Grant/Cooperative Agreement Number U58/CCU922934 from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Its contents are solely the responsibility of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official views of CDC.