qualitylonglifeequality: High Sodium intake and Chain Smoking among Black Persons and African Americans; Doing something about it

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Watch your Sodium intake Black Sister/Black Brother. Source: By Osagie K. Obasogie

Black Brother/Black Sister what is cool about smoking really? Source: Google Images

Smoking, African-Americans, Sodium consumption, Black Persons........... Are you ready to hear this?

In the US, tobacco use is the number one killer of African-Americans (or black persons). Each year, there are 47,300 tobacco related deaths among African-Americans.

There are things we can do to help stem the tide:

1. Turn all the researched literature on smoking among Black People/African Americas into action against smoking. There are examples of resources such as:

https://www.tobaccofreekids.org/research/factsheets/pdf/0006.pdf.

http://www.tobaccofreekids.org/facts_issues/fact_sheets/toll/populations/african_americans/.

2. Make known the dangers of smoking among African Americans and Black Persons. Use such tools like:

http://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/campaign/tips/groups/african-american.html.

3. Initiate and establish no smoke campaigns in communities where African Americans/Black Persons reside. Tobacco use, is related to heart disease, cancer, and stroke. These are the three leading causes of premature death among African Americans and Black persons in USA.

http://www.no-smoke.org/learnmore.php?id=465.

4. Do make statistics your friend and use them to promote information which in turn helps influence the decisions to cease or quit smoking.

http://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/data_statistics/sgr/1998/highlights/african_americans/.

5. Talk or write about dangers of smoking.

6. As if that is not enough, sodium consumption and high blood pressure are risk factors for heart disease and stroke. Again, we need to turn all the researched literature on sodium-intake among Black People/African Americas into action reducing sodium consumption. There are examples of resources such as:

http://www.hhs.gov/blog/2016/06/01/reducing-sodium-food-supply.html.

http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/medical_examiner/2011/04/black_salt.html.

http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/407741_3.

http://www.jhsph.edu/research/centers-and-institutes/johns-hopkins-center-to-eliminate-cardiovascular-health-disparities/research/pdfs/vollmer.effectsofdietsodium.2001.pdf.

http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/1355785042000285375.