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The National Latino Council on Alcohol and Tobacco Prevention (LCAT) is a non-profit 501 © 3 tax exempt, national organization created in 1989 by a group of Latino public health professionals and community advocates from throughout the United States.

LCAT's mission is to combat alcohol and tobacco problems and their underlying causes in Latino communities.

LCAT is unique since it is the only Latino national organization dedicated solely to reducing the harm caused by alcohol and tobacco in the Latino community through research, advocacy, policy analysis, community education, training and information dissemination.

LCAT concentrates its efforts on informing public opinion and promoting changes on local, state and federal policies that affect advertising, access, enforcement and consumption of these products by Latino youth.

The Board of Directors represents a cross-section of Latino subgroups that compose the diverse Latino population in various regions of the country.

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News Releases

The National Latino Council on Alcohol and Tobacco Prevention (LCAT) organized community forums on tobacco prevention in Latino communities in four states – New York, Virginia, Georgia and North Carolina – during the month of April. At these public forums community organizations, health department officials, elected officials and others came together to discuss the current tobacco related issues and challenges faced by Latinos. The events were held in local counties that have a significant Latino population. read more

Mission and Strategies

LCAT pursues its mission of combating alcohol and tobacco problems and their underlying causes in Latino communities by: 1) informing public opinion through information dissemination in order to gain support for change; 2) assisting and supporting Latino communities in their efforts to address alcohol and tobacco issues by providing a national communication and mobilization network, leadership development, conferences, education, training and technical assistance; and 3) promoting policy change that will result in healthier, safer and more productive Latino communities through research, policy analysis, policy recommendations and advocacy.

Products and Programs

Clearinghouse  containing prevention brochures, posters and other materials produced by government agencies and private and nonprofit organizations.

Information resource responding to inquiries form the media, policymakers, prevention practitioners, health professionals and others.

Library consisting  of books, research papers, conference proceeding, journal articles, video tapes and more.

Publications including newsletters, fact sheets, policy papers, directories.

Responses to current events including preparation and placement of opinion editorials, position statements, articles and interviews.

Speakers bureau assisting in the identification of presenters and actions to take.

Web site containing on-line versions of LCAT print materials, cutting edge information, breaking news, links to other web sites and more.

Our Staff

Marcy Lopez - Executive Director

Marcy López, MPH is currently the Executive Director of the National Latino Council on Alcohol and Tobacco Prevention (LCAT), with national headquarters in New York City. Prior to joining LCAT, she served as the Director of Policy and Advocacy of the Latino Commission on AIDS. In this role, she was responsible for policy development the implementation of advocacy strategies. Her leadership resulted in numerous highly visible national policy and advocacy forums.

Specifically, she spearheaded the establishment of the first National Latino Hispanic AIDS Action Agenda, a community driven national movement to address the challenges Latinos face due to the HIV/AIDS epidemic. She also directed the National Latino AIDS Awareness Day, a national social marketing campaign to improve education on HIV and increase the number of Latinos tested for HIV. Her public health career began as an Asthma Educator and Research Coordinator at New York University / Bellevue Hospital. The focus of her work was the World Trade Center Resident's Respiratory Health Study, which examined the respiratory, and health effects of residents living in lower Manhattan after the physical collapse of the World Trade Center. Marcy's interest in health is in addressing the common threads that exist across the various health issues faced by Latino communities in the United States. She believes by targeting and addressing these factors, large-scale progress will be made Marcy is a New York born and raised Puerto Rican. She received her Bachelor of Arts degree in Sociology and Latino Studies from Cornell University and went on to receive her Master in Public Health from Columbia University. She is also a 2006 National Hispanic Health Foundation Scholar.

 

Board of Directors

Marilyn Aguirre-Molina

Deputy Executive Officer
Health Sciences Doctoral Programs
The Graduate Center - CUNY

Angelo Falcón, MPA

President and Founder
National Institute for Latino Policy (NILP)
New York, NY

Adjunct Assistant Professor
Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA)

Carlos Molina, EdD

Dean, Academic Affairs
Eugenio Maria de Hostos Community College CUNY
New York, NY
 

Emilio J. Morante

Executive Vice President                  
National Hispanic Health Foundation

Contact Us

National Latino Council on Alcohol and Tobacco Prevention

New York:

250 Fifth Avenue

Suite 403

New York, NY 10001

Please feel free to write to us regarding any questions on our programs or publications.

 

E-mail us at: mlopez@nlcatp.org

 

 
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    For Latinas, there is a positive relationship between level of acculturation and smoking.
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    In 2005, 22 percent of Hispanic high school students smoked, a 19% increase over the 2003 smoking rate of 18.4 percent.
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    6 out of 10 Latina pregnant adolescents report drinking beer or wine before their third month of pregnancy.
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    Latinos come in second highest in use of alcohol, binge drinking and heavy alcohol use.
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    Motor vehicle crashes are the leading cause of death for Hispanics between the ages of 1 and 34!
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    In 2004, 9.4 percent of Hispanic middle school students smoked.
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    Puerto Rican women are nearly twice as likely to smoke as women of other Hispanic groups.
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    Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer deaths among Latinos living in the United States.
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    Hispanic children ages 5 to 12 are 72% likelier to die in a motor vehicle crash than non-Hispanic children.

     
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