Group therapy offers 'Freedom from Smoking'
Group therapy offers 'Freedom from Smoking' By Paige Willett, Citizen Potawatomi Nation Public Information Department While rates have decreased by approximately two-thirds in the last 50 years, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported in 2019 that 34.2 million Americans smoke cigarettes. Its prevalence among American Indians/Alaska Natives remains high at 1.5 times the national average, or 26 percent of all Native Americans. “Back in 2001-02, Oklahoma tried to get the tribes more involved, and so they created a coalition, the Native American Tobacco Coalition, and I was one ...
Source: news-star.com