From SmokeFree Times newsletter, American Lung Association of Rhode Island, Fall 1996 issue, p. 1
The Tobacco Control Network Needs You!
Change happens when people feel strongly enough about an issue and demand that their voices be heard.
The Tobacco Control Network, funded by Project ASSIST, has come together to address the growing health problems that tobacco is causing. The American Lung Association of Rhode Island is leading this Network and calling on people from business, organizations and the community who want to make a difference in Rhode Island.
Issues the Tobacco Control Network will need your support on include tobacco use, smoking cessation, environmental tobacco smoke, and tobacco control. Special emphasis will be placed on these issues when it relates to protecting children from using tobacco and breathing in secondhand smoke. For example, the Network will support efforts to educate local convenience stores and pharmacies to not sell tobacco products to children, remove smoking at recreation and youth sports ceremonies, banquets, and events where children and youth are present, and check vending machines to make sure locking devices are being used.
The ALARI will provide the information and the education to the network and will link with other advocacy groups at the state and local levels. All interested persons are invited to join the tobacco control network. Active recruitment will target service organizations, voluntary associations, health care networks, work places, religious organizations, and youth organizations at the state level. Local community groups, schools, and concerned citizens will also be targeted.
Call Molly Clark, Coordinator of the Tobacco Control Network, at the ALA/RI, 401-421-6487 for more information.
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Read other articles in Fall 1996 issue:
"Lung Association Receives ASSIST Grant for Tobacco Control Network"
"The MOB Rules at Chariho High School"
"Reducing Youth Access to Tobacco Makes Headlines in 1996"
"Rhode Island Well-Represented at National Tobacco Control Conference"
"Smoking and Kids Don't Mix in North Kingstown"
"Speaking Out, Not Lighting Up" at LaSalle Academy
"Tobacco Free Pharmacy Campaign Grows"
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