http://www.flquitline.com/
The following services are available through the QuitLine:
- Counseling sessions;
- Self help materials;
- Counseling and materials in English and Spanish;
- Translation service for other languages; Pharmacotherapy assistance; and
- TDD service for hearing impaired
QUITLINE FAX Referral Form
Past Meeting Information:
September Meeting Agenda and Minutes:
TFP Meeting Minutes 9-14-09 1
TFP Meeting Minutes 8-10-09
Past Issues: TFPH NEWS Qtr 1.pd
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Tobacco Free Partnership/ SWAT
Tobacco Free Partnership Meetings
Next Meeting: March 8th, 2010 at 4:00 pm
Location: Family Justice Center
9309 N. FLORIDA AVENUE
TAMPA, FL 33612
Meeting Agenda:
Meeting Minutes:
For more information, please contact:
Board Chair: Laurie Ellston 813.842.0734 or laurie@hcada.com
Vice Chair: Dotti Groover-Skipper 813.417.1648 or takecharge@mindspring.com
To Join the Tobacco Free Partnership please fill out our membership below
TOBACCO FREE PARTNERSHIP Membership Form
Check out press coverage for the Great American Smokeout
held on November 19, 2009
Smokers can swap cigarettes for lunch during Smokeout
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Important Links/Information:
School Swat Teams Kick Tobacco's Butt
Tampa Bay Area Students To Rally Against Smoking-2
Action on Smoking & Health – oldest antismoking organization
Centers for Disease Control, surgeon general
reports
More ad parodies
The Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids
Science, Tobacco, & You, science education
Stop Teenage Addiction to Tobacco
National tobacco lawsuit
A Smoking Cessation Resource
Smoking Cessation
A fun look at past advertising
Florida Bureau of Tobacco Prevention Program
County Data Profile: Hillsborough
January 2010
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Upcoming Events
Youth Anti-Tobacco Classes- New Dates
Offender’s of Statue 569.11 and/or 386.212
On March 27, 2009 SWAT teens presented Lowry Park Zoo a certificate for going smoke-free.
Congratulations!! to the Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office – Smoke Free October 1, 2009 and USF Health – Smoke Free November 19, 2009
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SWAT Key Concepts
SWAT’s message is not about health.
SWAT’s message is about Big Tobacco marketing practices and exposing the manipulation of the tobacco industry.
SWAT does not tell anyone how to live their lives – you have enough people doing that already. The message is not about telling youth - “don’t smoke”. Instead, SWAT works to generate awareness about what Big Tobacco does to get a share of the youth market..
There is one enemy, Big Tobacco.
SWAT does not talk down to or “preach” to anyone, including smokers. Smokers are allowed to join SWAT because they are victims of the tobacco industry’s manipulative advertising.
We are a generation UNITED against Big Tobacco.
TRUTH is the message and SWAT is the messenger.
SWAT is the organization that complements the TRUTH Campaign (the commercials on television with which many people are familiar). Students between the ages of 12 and 18 can SWAT join to support the TRUTH Campaign.
SWAT is a youth advocacy group that promotes leadership and community
involvement. SWAT uses these avenues among teens to create awareness
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Quotes from the Internal Memos of Various Tobacco Companies and their Employees
"It’s important to know as much about teenage smoking patterns and attitudes. Today's teenager is tomorrow's potential regular customer."
Phillip Morris, Inc.
Makers of Marlboro Cigarettes
Internal Memo
"Realistically, if our company is to survive and prosper over the long term, we must get our share of the youth market. In my opinion, this will require new brands tailored to the youth market."
Claude Teague
RJ Reynolds Tobacco
Makers of Camel
"Of course it’s addictive. That’s why you smoke the stuff."
Ross Johnson
RJ Reynolds Tobacco 1994
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“Mark Studstill Award of Excellence”
On Wednesday February 25, 2009 Laurie Ellston, Chair of the Tobacco Free Partnership, was given the “Mark Studstill Award of Excellence”, an award given to a community member dedicated to the awareness and treatment of substance abuse.
Click here to read more from Laurie
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