Program Details
The Comprehensive Tobacco Use Prevention and Control Program is a set of related initiatives to prevent tobacco use in Orange County. It is modeled after successful strategies in other areas in the United States. This program includes six elements:
- Community Programs
- Counter Marketing
- Enforcement
- School-Based Programs
- Smoking Cessation
- Surveillance and Evaluation
Please call the Community Health Outreach Office at (845) 568-5237, or Email the Community Health Outreach Office for more information on:
- "Take the Smoke-Free Home Pledge," sponsored by the Environmental Protection Agency
- 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
- 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
- Quitting or to sign up for free smoking cessation classes
- TAP and TEG - teen education programs to stop using tobacco
- Training to become facilitators of cessation groups