--- title: Celebrating youth-led statewide policy change in new Mexico description: Our youth engagement team is celebrating a statewide policy change win in New Mexico. 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Rescue Agency’s Youth Engagement and Policy Change programs encourage young people to advocate for policy reform to: - Reduce tobacco use - Increase access to nutrition and healthy drinking water - Prevent substance use We unify stakeholders and changemakers around a clear, focused goal that will create broad support for a policy change to promote healthy behaviors. We're excited to celebrate our 2023 statewide policy change in New Mexico! Rule 6.12.4 NMAC passed, prohibiting commercial tobacco and nicotine use in schools. ![Policy Change Numbers by State](https://blog.rescueagency.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Screenshot%202024-05-31%20at%2012.12.35%20PM.png?width=646&height=316&name=Screenshot%202024-05-31%20at%2012.12.35%20PM.png) We're so proud of all the work of our youth engagement team in passing this statewide policy. 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