TPCP Grantee Calendar of Events January – March 2012 Title of Event: MISRGO Y.E.S. Performance Troupe Tryouts Date of Event: January 21, 2012 | 10 a.m. Location of Event: Family Service Agency 628 W. Broadway, Suite 202 North Little Rock, AR 72114 Contact Information: Chantel Tucker at ctucker@fsainc.org Description of Event: CALL TO ACTION [...]
TPCP Grantee Calendar of Events October – December 2011 Title of Event: TPCP Workshop: Promoting and Sustaining Tobacco Prevention and Cessation Programs Date of Event: October 24, 2011 | 8:30 to 3:30 p.m. (Registration from 8:00 to 8:30 a.m.) Location of Event: Arkansas Department of Health Auditorium 4815 W. Markham Street Little Rock, AR [...]
On September 10, the Northwest Arkansas Tobacco-Free Coalition hosted a Press Conference on the front steps of the Fayetteville Town Square. They received a great deal of community support in response to the youth’s activities and their word-of-mouth/social media campaign leading up to the event. On the day of the conference, 16 high school students [...]
By Timothy W. Martin The number of adult Americans who smoke is on the decline again after several years of little change, and those who smoke are puffing fewer cigarettes a day, new government stats show. But smoking rates are still far higher than federal goals, U.S. health officials said. An estimated 19.3% of U.S. adults (or [...]
(AP) COLUMBIA, S.C. – Four of the five largest U.S. tobacco companies sued the federal government Tuesday over new graphic cigarette labels that include the sewn-up corpse of a smoker and a picture of diseased lungs, saying the warnings violate their free speech rights and will cost millions of dollars to print. The companies, led [...]
September 6, 2011 Dear Counselors: Do your students have what it takes to stay clear of tobacco? The 2011 My Future is Clear Essay & Poetry Contest, presented by Stamp Out Smoking, allows students across Arkansas in grades 2-9 to put their creativity to work by picturing themselves living in a smoke-free world by 2030. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
