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		<title>TPCP Welcomes New Employees</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Shalon Bogard began working with TPCP on November 2, 2011. Prior to employment with TPCP, she worked with the Department of Human Services from November 2010 until October 2011. She holds a bachelor’s degree in Finance from UALR and lived in California after completing her degree. She enjoys art, spending time with family and friends, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>TPCP Grantee Calendar of Events</title>
		<description><![CDATA[TPCP Grantee Calendar of  Events January &#8211; March 2012   Title of Event: MISRGO Y.E.S. Performance Troupe Tryouts Date of Event: January 21, 2012 &#124; 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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Great American Smokeout 2011</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Every November, the American Cancer Society hosts the Great American Smokeout. The event, held on the third Thursday of November, encourages people who smoke to put their health first by making a commitment to quit smoking for good.  Download and customize the press release below and distribute to media in your area: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE [...]]]></description>
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		<title>TPCP Grantee Calendar of Events</title>
		<description><![CDATA[TPCP Grantee Calendar of Events October &#8211; December 2011 &#160; Title of Event: TPCP Workshop: Promoting and Sustaining Tobacco Prevention and Cessation Programs Date of Event: October 24, 2011 &#124; 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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>TPCP Welcomes New Employees</title>
		<description><![CDATA[TPCP is pleased to introduce its new Cessation Section Chief, Brenda Howard, MS, CADC, CCS. Brenda joins us from the UAMS- Department of Psychiatry Severe Barriers Project where she worked as a Project Specialist. For the past seven years she has worked with TEA recipients identified with barriers to employment in the areas of mental [...]]]></description>
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		<title>TPCP Launches Systems Training and Outreach Program (STOP)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Arkansas Department of Health’s Tobacco Prevention and Cessation Program has developed an outreach program to work with health care providers serving populations with disproportionally high smoking/tobacco use prevalence to help them quit tobacco successfully. The Systems Training Outreach Program (STOP) will use regionally based specialists to provide education and support to providers in increasing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>TPCP Receives Mental Health Grant</title>
		<description><![CDATA[TPCP has received a $91,000 grant award that will be used to expand the focus of tobacco cessation among the mental health population. TPCP will partner with the Arkansas Department of Human Services, Division of Behavioral Health, and the Mental Health Council of Arkansas in this project.  It is estimated that persons with mental illness [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Northwest Arkansas Tobacco-Free Coalition Hosts Press Conference</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fewer Americans Are Smoking, and Those Who Do Puff Less</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tobacco companies sue FDA over graphic labels</title>
		<description><![CDATA[(AP) COLUMBIA, S.C. &#8211; 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 [...]]]></description>
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