Breathe Easy Wheat Ridge

05/14/2018

If you live in Jefferson, Clear Creek or Gilpin Counties, please consider taking this important survey to help shape the future of prevention, including to***co prevention efforts, in your community. Your feedback is invaluable! Visit www.bit.ly/2018phpsurvey to access the survey.

Please take this household survey online by 5/23/18 and your opinions can help shape the future of prevention in your community! Survey topics are related to health, wellness, and prevention. Sponsored by the health departments in Clear Creek, Gilpin, and Jefferson counties.

Have your voice heard, take the survey: www.bit.ly/2018phpsurvey

06/30/2013

Action Request - just a brief e-mail makes a difference!
Arvada and Edgewater already have smoke-free outdoor dining, help make Wheat Ridge next. Please write to the city council and urge them to support making patios smoke-free. Feel free to request other smoke-free areas like transit waiting areas and to***co shops to prevent youth targeted ho**ah lounges. Just copy and paste the city council emails below into one e-mail: [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]

04/04/2013

Check out our latest eNewsletter - Amazing April Monthly Public Health Updates

2012 Public Health Champions of the Year Jefferson County Public Health would like to thank the following individuals for their contribution to public health in 2012. The hard work and dedication of these 2012 Public Health Champions of the Year has helped to create healthier people and healthier pl...

03/05/2013

Check out our latest enewsletter! Majestic March Monthly Public Health Updates

Provide a Safe Sleep Environment for InfantsWatch this Jefferson County Insights video featuring a Jefferson County mother and her infant during a visit with one of our public health nurses as well as an interview with Dr. Ann Halbower with Children’s Hospital.Dr. Ann Halbower with Children’s Hospit...

11/05/2012

Are you ready for the Great American Smokeout on 11/15? Make this your year to quit!

Get Support for Quitting To***co during the 37th Great American Smokeout

10/23/2012

Excited to have Wheat Ridge's Mod Mood retro consignment store on board as a supporter of stronger smoke-free laws in Wheat Ridge. Check out all of the organizations that are supporting our efforts!

Breathe Easy Wheat Ridge - Working to protect Wheat Ridge residents from deadly secondhand smoke

10/22/2012

Make sure to read Coalition Chair, Sarah Davis', letter to the editor in this month's Wheat Ridge Neighborhood Gazette!

A monthly community based newspaper serving the Wheat Ridge and Edgewater Colorado communities.

10/17/2012

Check out this piece on Your Hub about stronger smoke-free laws in Wheat Ridge!

Opinion: Stronger smoke-free laws would increase customers and revenue for Wheat Ridge

10/16/2012

Breathe Easy Wheat Ridge would like to congratulate the businesses that were recognized at the City of Wheat Ridge’s Business Appreciation Awards, especially those that have endorsed our smoke-free efforts. Read more on our blog!

Breathe Easy Wheat Ridge - Working to protect Wheat Ridge residents from deadly secondhand smoke

10/15/2012

Check out the latest Wheat Ridge ad recognizing our business and organizational supporters!

Want to join the list of supporters? Sign an endorsement form today at: http://www.breatheeasywheatridge.com/sign-an-endorsement-form.html

10/10/2012

See the story in Arvada Your Hub about Breathe Easy Wheat Ridge!

Wheat Ridge coalition asks for smoke-free parks, trails

10/09/2012

This is worth reading - a very moving blog post about growing up with secondhand smoke....

09/27/2012

Yearly deaths from secondhand smoke accounted for about 600,000 years of potential life lost, or an average of 14.2 years per person.

Read more....

Researchers calculate that secondhand smoke kills 42,000 Americans each year, including nearly 900 infants, resulting in 600,000 years of potential life lost and $6.6 billion in lost productivity

09/12/2012

Many think that “smoking ho**ah†has no negative health effects. The truth might surprise some.

09/07/2012

Wow - cigarette companies have been adding things like licorice, cocoa, and sugar to ci******es. This is a MUST READ....

Ammonia, sugars, cocoa and more. Once-secret documents reveal some surprising ingredients, writes Robert N. Proctor.

09/06/2012

It's flu season! Secondhand smoke only makes things worse....

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Kids hospitalized with the flu are more likely to need intensive care and a longer stay if they've been exposed to second-hand smoke at home, a small new study finds.Analyzing

08/31/2012

Take advantage of the long holiday weekend to think about quitting smoking! Perhaps you could quit in time for World Heart Day on 9/30?!? For help, visit http://www.myquitpath.com/

My Quit Path

08/30/2012

Please see this important public service announcement!

Donna Viverette, To***co [email protected] Ho**ah smoking lounges are opening in some Jefferson County communities that have not yet strengthened their smoke free laws, with the latest one opening just across the street from Wheat Ridge Middle School. Although state law prohib...