Spring 2019 Newsletter
Welcome to our first Breathing Matters e-news! Twice a year isn’t enough to keep you up to date on everything Breathe New Hampshire is doing, so we’re publishing Breathing Matters e-news in spring and fall, between the print editions. Enjoy!
May 7
Management of COPD
Puritan Event Center

June 1 & 2
Asthma Awareness Days
Story Land

September 23
Fairways for Airways Golf Classic ™

Vaping Unveiled™

Many teens believe vaping is harmless. Here are commonly asked questions and the facts behind the myths.
MYTH: It’s just flavoring.
TRUTH: Vape flavors are from chemicals that are approved to eat, but not safe to inhale.

MYTH: It’s just water vapor.
TRUTH: Vaping exposes user’s lungs to harmful chemicals like formaldehyde, diacetyl and acrolein, and tiny metal particles like nickel, tin and lead.

MYTH: Just because I vape doesn’t mean I’m going to smoke cigarettes.
TRUTH: Research shows teens who vape are three to four times more likely to try smoking cigarettes.

MYTH: Nicotine isn’t that bad for me.
TRUTH: A teen’s brain is still developing, making it more vulnerable to nicotine addiction, sooner. Nicotine exposure during teen years disrupts normal brain development and has long-lasting effects. Vaping delivers nicotine to the brain in as little as 10 seconds.

To address the high rate of youth vaping in the state, Breathe New Hampshire created Vaping Unveiled™: What Everyone Needs to Know.

This free program is offered to parents, communities and schools to raise awareness of vaping and the dangers of youth nicotine addiction. See more on vaping here.
School administrators: Discarding confiscated vape devices? Consider donating them to Breathe NH for our presentations. Or send us photos to help us illustrate the problem.
Get Involved: Help Bag the Butts ™
C igarette butts are the world’s greatest environmental litter problem, taking up to 10 years to decompose and leaching toxic chemicals into soil and water. Breathe New Hampshire offers a Bag the Butts ™ clean-up initiative statewide.

Be part of the solution! Organize a clean-up in your neighborhood, at your workplace, school or park. Breathe NH provides free tool kits with everything you need. Learn More
New Hampshire Legislative Update

SB 248 increasing the age for sales and possession of tobacco products. Breathe NH supports this bill.
Re-referred to Senate Commerce Committee 3.7.19.

HB 230 prohibiting smoking in motor vehicles when a passenger is under 16. Breathe NH supports this bill.
Laid on the Table, House Transportation Committee, 3.14.19.

HB 511-FN relative to vaping. Breathe NH supports as originally written, prior to amendment. Passed, adopted with Amendment: House Health, Human Services & Elderly Affairs 3.7.19. Introduced & Referred to Senate Commerce 3.14.19.

HB 680-FN relative to the definition of tobacco products for the tobacco tax and retail tobacco licensing. Breathe NH supports.
Commerce Committee, Ought to Pass with Amendment. Referred to House Ways and Means. Retained in Committee 3.27.19.

HB 695 relative to transparency of nonprofit patient advocacy organizations. Breathe NH opposes this bill. Ought to Pass with Amendment. Introduced and Referred to Senate Commerce 3.28.19.
Breathe NH in the Community: Dr. Albee Budnitz

Although Albee Budnitz MD recently retired from practice, he maintains his lifelong commitment to tobacco prevention. A longtime Breathe NH board member, he continues to volunteer, traveling the state to educate teens, parents, healthcare professionals and school officials on the harmful effects of vaping products, 99% of which contain nicotine, on growing brains.
Fun Fact: Albee has run the Boston Marathon and the Mount Washington Road Race twice. He's hung up his marathon shoes, but runs with his wife 6 mornings a week.
 
Did you know New Hampshire has one of the highest rates of asthma in the U.S.? Learn more about asthma and enjoy a day at the Granite State's iconic amusement park, Story Land. In partnership with Breathe NH and the NH Asthma Collaborative, Story Land will feature education and resources, games and giveaways to increase awareness of this chronic disease and help families learn better asthma control.

Join us at Story Land Saturday, June 1 or Sunday, June 2 for the first-ever asthma awareness event at the park. Modifications will be made to accommodate guests with asthma. Bring your Breathe NH
Fun Pass coupon book for BOGO admission!
Join us!
Sat. June 1 or Sun. June 2

Vaping Unveiled ™ is available to schools and communities at no cost thanks to many generous supporters. Please consider making a tax-deductible gift to ensure the future lung health of our youth. 
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