Stamp Out Smoking, the media and public relations campaign for the Arkansas Department of Health Tobacco Prevention and Cessation Program, announced today the 2009 “Tobacco Tackle” essay contest. This contest will give Arkansas students in grades 2-9 the opportunity to submit an essay about a “hero” in their lives who maintains a healthy and tobacco-free [...]
Fifteen-year-old Parkview High School Student Josilyn Mitchell is a member of the Arkansas Youth Leadership Initiative Program (YLI). Josilyn was recently recognized as a finalist in the National Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids 2009 Youth Advocates of the Year Awards. The award honors top youth across the country who have fought hard to promote tobacco [...]
In August 2010, Arkansas state colleges and universities will be required to make their campuses smoke-free, but two schools are taking matters into their own hands to start protecting students from secondhand smoke now. The University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff and the University of Arkansas at Little Rock have implemented smoke-free policies to [...]
Staff from the Tobacco Prevention and Cessation Program (TPCP) and Office of Oral Health (OOR) are in the process of developing a partnership with Arkansas Game and Fish Commission’s (AGFC) Hooked on Fishing – Not on Drugs Program (HOFNOD). This partnership will reach students in many of Arkansas’ rural communities to encourage them to never [...]
On October 1, the Arkansas Tobacco Quitline will celebrate its one year anniversary of helping callers quit tobacco under operation by a new vendor, Free & Clear, Inc. In only one year, more than 26,000 tobacco users have called to receive the Quitline’s free motivational counseling and medications such as patches and lozenges. Thirty percent [...]
