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Tips, Classes and
Health Corner Programs to help

you live healthier!

Please join us in celebrating Red replacement products to help you
Ribbon Week! Our youth have the successfully quit. Please call us today at
right to grow up drug free and we have 410-479-8080 to learn more or sign up.
the responsibly and power to make
Celebrate Red Ribbon Week that happen. Take the pledge at www. Breast Cancer Screening During
This October! redribbon.org/pledge. Remember to the time of COVID-19
talk with your kids about saying no
to tobacco, Juuls and other electronic During this very
Submitted by: Leigh Marquess, RN
nicotine delivery devices. If you challenging time of the

Tobacco use remains the number one need resources to help make these coronavirus pandemic,
preventable cause of death in the United conversations happen, please reach out we all have second
States. Most long-term smokers started to us at 410-479-8080. thoughts about doing
smoking as teenagers. According common everyday
We also encourage all adults to set things like going to
to Centers for Disease Control and
good examples for youth by not using the grocery store or a
Prevention, tobacco use in any form by
tobacco, nicotine or other drugs. If you restaurant, but what about going to a
youth is unsafe.
are thinking about quitting smoking, doctor’s office for a routine exam? Many

When parents talk to their teens about maybe to be a good role model for of us have stopped doing tasks that can
drugs, including tobacco, teens are 42% your kids, call the Caroline County affect our health and well-being. It has

less likely to use drugs. Unfortunately, Health Department. We will assist in been 18 months since the coronavirus
only about 25% of parents have these getting you connected to Th e Maryland knowingly appeared in the USA. It is
important conversions with their Quitline (1-800-QUITNOW) to start going to be with us for a while.

teens. Red Ribbon Week is a great time your quit plan. The program is off ered

to engage youth in the prevention of at no cost to you. With the program, The percentage of mammograms, Pap
drugs and it can all start with a simple you will learn how to build a quit plan, tests, and Colonoscopies performed
conversation. have support, and receive nicotine last year dropped by > 90% across the

country. This has improved in 2021 as
Red Ribbon Week is October 23rd – more people are being vaccinated. Th e
31st and it is all about drug awareness National Cancer Institute has warned
and prevention. This year’s theme is that delaying screening due to the

“Drug Free looks Like Me”. Being drug pandemic could lead to a sharp increase
free mean making the smart choice in deaths from breast and colorectal
not to use drugs, including tobacco, cancers in the next 10 years.
as well as other nicotine products like
electronic cigarettes, vapes, Juuls and Delayed screening may = delayed
other nicotine delivery devices. diagnosis = poorer prognosis =
treatment options that are more
invasive due to advanced stage of
cancer.
EXAMS & CERTIFICATES What to do? Coronavirus isn’t
• Truck/Bus Drivers stopping for anyone! Neither are we!
• Basic Med for Pilots
• If you are due for a Clinical
• Coast Guard for Boaters Breast Exam, Pap test,
• Pre-Op for Upcoming Surgery Mammogram or Colonoscopy,
call your Primary Care Provider.
Board Certified Ask them if they are seeing
Occupational Medicine patients and what the process

is. They are prepared to see
C.E. Jensen, MD
you with Personal Protective
Denton, MD 410-924-8560 Equipment (PPE) and will
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