The tobacco and nicotine industry continues to invest billions of dollars in developing and marketing highly addictive new products that are appealing to children and teens. These new products include oral nicotine pouches like ZYN, oral nicotine films and tablets like BRST, and high-tech heated tobacco products like IQOS. Dr. Jeremiah Mock will update parents, health professionals, and community members about the addictive properties of the industry’s newest products and explain the known and potentially harmful effects of these products on human health and ecosystems. A local high school student will share her experiences about tobacco and nicotine use among youth in Marin. The visually illuminating presentation will show how these new products are being advertised in social media and retail settings. Our speakers  will discuss what we  can do in Marin to prevent the use of these products and end the epidemic.

Featuring Live Spanish Interpretation

Featured Guest Speaker

Jeremiah Mock, MSc, PhD

Our guest speaker is Jeremiah Mock, MSc, PhD - a UCSF professor who conducts collaborative action research examining how people’s cultural context shapes their patterns of tobacco, nicotine and cannabis use. As a health anthropologist, Dr. Mock has focused for over three decades on examining how and why people’s lived experience of tobacco and nicotine use and secondhand smoke exposure is deeply rooted in culture in Thailand, Japan, and California. Dr. Mock led the first-of-its-kind garbology study on how Bay Area teen “juuling” and use of cigarettes, cigarillos, and cannabis were polluting high school environments. 

Allegra Andreoli

Our youth speaker is Allegra Andreoli - an 11th grader  at Tamalpais High School and MHYP Youth Ambassador.