Tobacco Endgame Matters

ASH CA

TEM is created and produced by Action on Smoking and Health (ASH), Advancing Momentum for a Tobacco-Free California. The podcast is dedicated to conversations focused on how we can achieve and plan for a tobacco-free California using policy and people power. In each episode, we'll engage subject matter experts to discuss niche topics within tobacco control and highlight California-specific progress and the opportunities they offer advocates.Host(s): Saoimanu Sope & Carol Maytum. Learn more about ASH CA at endtobaccoca.ash.org

  1. Achieving Endgame Within the AANHPI Community

    06/18/2025

    Achieving Endgame Within the AANHPI Community

    In this episode, Krishna Marme, SPARC Coordinator for Asian Pacific Partners for Empowerment, Advocacy and Leadership (APPEAL) and Luci Latu, Director for Taulama for Tongans, bring their wealth of knowledge and experience to discuss how to best partner with the Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander (AANHPI) communities in California. Together, they offer strategies that tobacco control advocates and community organizers will find useful and talk about opportunities to generate momentum in doing so. They also share their personal experiences as members of the AANHPI community and what they envision for a tobacco-free future.

    48 min

  2. 12/09/2024

    The Vital Role of Community Health Workers in Public Health Efforts

    In this episode, you’ll hear from Michelle McGarry, Tobacco Programs Supervisor at the Center for Well-Being, and Deborah Virgen, Community Health Worker (CHW) based in Santa Rosa, CA. Together, Michelle and Deborah talk about their personal experience with and as CHWs, and the labor of love that it requires from interested individuals. They also discuss how CHWs play an integral role in public health and how the momentum created by CHWs can be used to fight Big Tobacco.

    26 min
  3. Commercial Tobacco is a Violation of Human Rights

    11/15/2024

    Commercial Tobacco is a Violation of Human Rights

    In this episode, Kelsey Romeo-Stuppy, Managing Attorney at Action on Smoking and Health, and Charles Debnam, Deputy Chief Executive Officer at Community Wellness Alliance, discuss how commercial tobacco impedes on basic human rights and what advocates can do to effect change. You'll also learn about a major lawsuit against the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for its lack of regulation on menthol cigarettes.

    22 min
  4. Fighting a Different Fire: Tobacco and Nicotine-Use among Rural Fire Professionals

    06/11/2024

    Fighting a Different Fire: Tobacco and Nicotine-Use among Rural Fire Professionals

    In this episode, you'll learn about the FRANTIC Project from Patrick Gallagher, Health and Wellness Manager at Metro Fire, Scott Jennie, National State Director and California State Director of the Firefighter Cancer Support Network, and Elizabeth Meza, Health Communications Specialist for the FRANTIC Project. Guests in this episode share initial findings from their research efforts and how it informs their steps towards interrupting the initiation of smokeless tobacco use among rural firefighters.

    36 min
  5. What to Know About Working With Tribal Communities to Phase Out Commercial Tobacco

    01/19/2024

    What to Know About Working With Tribal Communities to Phase Out Commercial Tobacco

    In this episode you'll hear from Ravena Soto, Project Coordinator for the Tribal Community Coordinating Center at ETR, Rachel Reif, Youth Engagement Coordinator for the La Jolla Band of Luiseño Indians, and Kortni Bennett, Project Coordinator for California's Clean Air Project. Our guests explain the difference between traditional and commercial tobacco, internal challenges for implementing tobacco policies, and the priorities that drive tobacco control efforts within tribal communities.

    39 min

  6. 09/29/2023

    The Truth about the Tobacco Industry's Influence ft. Truth Initiative CEO and Youth Ambassador

    In this episode, Robin Koval, Truth Initiative CEO and President, and Jordan Watkins, Truth ambassador and doctoral student at the University of Alabama, join ASH's Policy Director, Chris Bostic, for a conversation about Truth Initiative’s new position paper, Gamechanger: Shifting from Tobacco Control to Ending the Industry’s Influence for Good. They also get into detail about realistic goals for Endgame and impacts on communities most affected by the tobacco industry.

    43 min
  7. Menthol Products Impacting the African American & Pan-African Communities

    06/27/2023

    Menthol Products Impacting the African American & Pan-African Communities

    In this episode, Lorraine Lathen, Jump at the Sun Consultant and Director of the City of Milwaukee Tobacco-Free Alliance, joins Carol McGruder, co-chair and co-founder of the African American Tobacco Control Leadership Council, for a conversation about No Menthol Sunday and its cultural significance to the African and Black community. Together, they discuss the opportunities that faith-based organizations lend to tobacco control efforts and the importance of knowing one's history when going up against Big Tobacco, an industry that has historically and intentionally targeted marginalized communities of color.

    35 min

  8. 05/30/2023

    Cessation: A Critical Component of the Tobacco Endgame

    In this episode, Dr. Elisa Tong, a Medical Director for the Stop Tobacco Program at UC Davis Comprehensive Cancer Center, and Dr. Karen Beard, a Clinical Psychologist from Los Angeles, CA, discuss their vast experience in tobacco control. They specifically talk about the opportunities that cessation or tobacco treatment offers the Endgame movement, and the success they've experienced as clinicians and medical experts.

    41 min
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TEM is created and produced by Action on Smoking and Health (ASH), Advancing Momentum for a Tobacco-Free California. The podcast is dedicated to conversations focused on how we can achieve and plan for a tobacco-free California using policy and people power. In each episode, we'll engage subject matter experts to discuss niche topics within tobacco control and highlight California-specific progress and the opportunities they offer advocates.Host(s): Saoimanu Sope & Carol Maytum. Learn more about ASH CA at endtobaccoca.ash.org

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  • Creator
    ASH CA
  • Years Active
    2022 - 2025
  • Episodes
    16
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © 2025 Tobacco Endgame Matters
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