The Utah Latino Network (ULN) at Comunidades Unidas has been working towards eliminating tobaccorelated health disparities across the state of Utah since 2004. The ULN brings together service providers, advocates and community members to work in five different goal areas: data, communication, cultural competency, capacity, and long term policy change. We are one of the four networks funded by the TPCP.

• The ULN is comprised by more than 60 businesses, health providers, and non profit organizations.
• Only last year we reached about 1500 people with information about the harms of tobacco use, the Spanish Quit Line and tobacco cessation groups.
• We provide the only Spanish speaking smoking cessation group in the state.
• The ULN develops and conducts surveys among Latinos and use the information collected in program planning.
• The ULN educates businesses about the benefits of being smoke free, which has led to more than 25 Latinos businesses distributing tobacco education and cessation materials to customers and staff this year.
• We regularly staff an educational booth at the Mexican Consulate, community fairs and cultural events. 
• With declining smoking rates among the general population, tobacco is increasingly becoming an issue that affects Utah’s poorest communities and some minority groups. Smoking rates in Utah communities with lower than average family income and some minority groups are equal to or higher than the national average. 

• Tobacco is a leading public health problem in Utah. The tobacco industry spends and estimated $57.9 million each year to market tobacco to Utah and it has stepped up efforts to market its deadly products among people with the least access to resources.

If you are interested in volunteering for this specific program please contact
Sac Nicte Yescas-Smoot at sacnicte@cuutah.org or call 801 487 4143

ULN in the News - click here

Latino youth testifying before the Health and Human Services Standing Committee (2010) about the new candy-like tobacco products.

Latino youth meet with Senator Luz Robles