Stamp Out Smoking encourages Arkansas tobacco users to participate in the Great American Smokeout on November 19. The Great American Smokeout is a national cessation day held every year by the American Cancer Society. It is a day selected to raise awareness of the dangers of tobacco and to help tobacco users quit, for at [...]
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 prevention [...]
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 provide [...]