The Comprehensive Tobacco Use Prevention and Control Program

The Comprehensive Tobacco Use Prevention and Control Program  was formulated to implement a comprehensive program related to tobacco use prevention in Orange County. It is modeled after "Program and Funding Guidelines for Comprehensive Local Tobacco Control Programs" by the National Association of County and City Health Officials and successful strategies from Florida’s Comprehensive Plan for Action. This program features six essential elements:

• Community Programs
• School-Based Programs
• Smoking Cessation
• Counter Marketing
• Enforcement
• Surveillance and Evaluation

For Information On:

• Quitting or to sign up for free smoking cessation classes Click here for more info.
• Training to become facilitators of cessation groups
• American Cancer Society: Living Well…Tobacco Free – tobacco education, occupation policy and cessation
• American Cancer Society: Make Yours A Fresh Family Start – for pregnant women and parents who smoke
• TAP and TEG – teen education programs to stop using tobacco
• "Take the Smoke-Free Home Pledge", sponsored by the Environmental Protection Agency
• Educational presentations to civic, business and community groups on the dangers of tobacco
• Free literature (pamphlets, brochures, posters)
• Loan library of videos and school curricula
  

Contacts:
     Kathy Barnett, Public Health Educator at (845) 568-5238

     email: tobaccocontrol@co.orange.ny.us

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