Asian, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander People and Commercial Tobacco: Health Disparities and Ways to Advance Health Equity
Everyone deserves a fair and just opportunity to be as healthy as possible. This is called health equity. Achieving health equity means addressing system-wide problems, unfair practices, and unjust conditions that have a negative impact on the health of specific groups. In order to achieve health equity, we work to eliminate health disparities. Heath disparities are differences in health outcomes that are closely linked with social, economic, and/or environmental factors.
To improve health equity for Asian, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander (A/NH/PI†) people we must consider the role of commercial tobacco*.

How Asian, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander people experience a health burden from commercial tobacco
How they harm Asian, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander people and drive health disparities
How Asian, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander people encounter these barriers and strategies that can be used to help quit smoking