LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (Jan. 25, 2010) – Stamp Out Smoking, the educational outreach media campaign for the Arkansas Department of Health Tobacco Prevention and Cessation Program, announced today it will host the seventh annual tobacco-free drama contest. Titled “The Big Pitch,” the contest will give students across Arkansas the chance to write and star in [...]
Tobacco Prevention Coordinator Hunter Caraway, in accordance with the city of Melbourne, saw an opportunity to extend the smoke-free message within Izard County. As of November 24, 2009, a ban was established on smoking within 20 feet of all city-owned playground equipment. Learn more about how Hunter’s initiative helped provide a healthier environment for children [...]
This fiscal year, TPCP has partnered with Arkansas Department of Human Services’ Division of Behavioral Health Services’ Office of Alcohol and Drug Abuse Prevention (OADAP), the Department of Community Corrections (DCC), and University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff (UAPB), to provide intensive tobacco treatment training to close to 80 substance abuse counselors.
In a report released in early December, Arkansas ranks 9th in the nation for funding programs to prevent kids from smoking and help smokers quit. Currently, Arkansas is only funded at half of what the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends when orchestrating tobacco prevention and cessation programs. Arkansas’s commitment to remain one [...]
Arkansas High School in Texarkana has been selected as the winner of “The Big Pitch” 2009, Stamp Out Smoking’s sixth annual tobacco-free drama contest. SOS received 48 entries for the “The Big Pitch” 2009, the most received in the history of the contest.
Arkansas High School will receive $2,000 in store credit to purchase media equipment [...]
Dr. Carolyn Dresler of the Arkansas Department of Health announced today a voting initiative that urges all Arkansans to rally around Stamp Out Smoking, the media and public relations campaign of the ADH Tobacco Prevention and Cessation Program.
“We are asking the public to participate in the selection of their favorite entry in the ‘The Big [...]
Effective March 1, Arkansas cigarette taxes increased by 56 cents per pack. An additional federally implemented tax begins in April and will increase the price per pack by 62 cents. In addition to the Arkansas excise tax increase and the Federal tax increase, the tobacco industry is also increasing its prices. With the cost of [...]
The Arkansas Tobacco Quitline (ATQ) received more than 2,000 calls in the first half of February 2009. Historically, the ATQ and other state-funded cessation programs helped more than 5,500 Arkansas tobacco users last year.
The ATQ is one of many excellent resources in helping tobacco users kick the habit. The promotion, “Free patches or lozenges, while [...]
The Coalition for a Tobacco-Free Arkansas honored Elroy Brown of Osceola in a press conference at the Capitol on January 16 to announce his receipt of an Honorable Mention awarded by the American Legacy Foundation. Brown received an Honorable Mention for the 2009 Community Activist Award for his work challenging tobacco in Mississippi County.
CTFA Executive [...]
The Madison County Health Coalition is located in Huntsville, Arkansas, a rural community with a growing influx of Hispanic commuters. The coalition was established in 2000 with a mission of addressing Madison County’s health issues through a collaboration of diverse community interests by maintaining and seeking local resources to achieve better health for county residents. [...]
