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To: BOARD OF SUPERVISORS �.-062
Mark Finucane, Health Services Director !, Contra
FROM: By: Elizabeth A. Spooner, Contracts Administra
Costa
DATE: July 12, 1990 .t@ County
Approve submission of Funding Application #29-398 to the State 7
SUBJECT: Department of Health Services for the East County Smokeless Tobacco
Education Program
SPECIFIC REQUEST(S) OR RECOMMENDATION(S) & BACKGROUND AND JUSTIFICATION
I. RECOMMENDED ACTION:
Approve submission of Funding Application #29-398 to the State
Department of Health Services in the amount of $225, 866 for the
period June 30, 1990. through December 31, 1991 for the East County
Smokeless Tobacco Education Program.
II. FINANCIAL IMPACT:
Approval of this one-time-only grant will result in $225,766 from
the State Department of Health Services Tobacco Control Section.
No County funds are required.
III. REASONS FOR RECOMMENDATIONS/BACKGROUND:
Use of smokeless tobacco among adolescent males continues to
increase. Eighty percent of teenagers who use smokeless tobacco
believe that it is much safer than smoking. A 1986 U.S. Department
of Health and Human Services report found that 32% of suburban and
rural California male 6th graders and 56% of suburban and rural
male 7th graders report ever using smokeless tobacco. Almost eight
percent of female 6th graders and 19 .6% of female 7th graders of
the same category reported using smokeless tobacco products.
The East County Smokeless Tobacco Education Program, in cooperation
with other community agencies in the East County region, will
provide education to 9 - 14 year old youth in East County schools
to build awareness of the problems related to smokeless tobacco use
in order to prevent initiation of use of such products by this
target population'
In order to meet the deadline for submission, the application has
been forwarded to the State, but subject to Board approval. Eight
certified copies of the Board Order authorizing submission of the
application should be returned to the Contracts and Grants Unit for
submission to the State Department of Health Services.
CONTINUED ON ATTACHMENT: YES SIGNATURE. /
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ACTION OF BOARD ON11-1! APPROVED AS RECOMMENDED OTHER
VOTE OF SUPERVISORS
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ABSENT: ABSTAIN: AND ENTERED ON THE MINUTES OF THE BOARD
OF SUPERVISORS ON THE DATE SHOWN.
JUL 2 4 1990
CC: ATTESTED
Phil Batchelor, Clerk of the Board of
- SupervisotseltdCounhtAQministrator
M382/7•63 BY DEPUTY