Chris Haire/OC Register
If all goes to plan, in three years, the number of smokers in Little Saigon A Westminster nonprofit is launching a three-year effort to reduce the number of smokers among the Vietnamese community in Orange County.
A new campaign funded by the CDC is aimed to help reduce smoking in Orange County. (Photo: Kenzo Tribouillard/AFP/Getty Images)
The project is multifaceted and has several focuses including getting commercial plazas in Little Saigon to enforce anti-smoking laws and policies and to cut down the number of smokers.
The program is being funded by a $2.9 million grant from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and will work with non-profit groups such as Boat People SOS
Vietnamese-Americans are more likely to be smokers than the rest of the U.S. population, according to the CDC.
In 2009, more than 31 percent of Vietnamese-American men in California smoked cigarettes, second only to Koreans. That compared to the national average of 20.5 percent of men.
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