Tobacco Coalition Town Hall Meeting for Smoke Free Air

Pictured above are Town Hall Meeting attendees listening to panelist share from a variety of different aspects about the necessity for and benefits of smoke-free air ordinances.

Raising their Voices @ the State Fair

This group of Voice studenst from Grant County brought a lot of energy to the State Fair! They worked at the Voice booth for hours and also marched in the parade. This is just one of the many cheers they came up with!

Grant County's VOICE now on Facebook!

Greetings!

Thank-you for taking the time to check out this blog and become more involved with tobacco prevention & cessation in Grant County. I appreciate all of your support! You can now follow even more of Grant County's Voice (teens speaking out against the tobacco industries) activity by joining the "Grant County's VOICE" group on Facebook!

Have a wonderful day!

Jenalee Veenkant
ITPC Coordinator

Upward Bound Voice Students Speak Out!

Voice Collage Boards

This is a collage board created by two of this summer's Upward Bound 10th grade Voice students. They did an excellent job of creating something that looks great & speaks truth. The collage board titled, "Avoiding Tobacco" is divided into 4 sections. The upper right focuses on protecting image, the bottom right highlights the benefits of saving money, and the bottom left emphasizes staying healthy. All of these three areas of the collage are the benefits of abstaining from tobacco. The upper left section exposes the horrible toxins that are in tobacco.

Tobacco Free Grant County

Creating a Healthier Community Together * Please join us for our Tobacco Coalition Meeting at Marion Public Library Mtg. Rm. B at 6:00pm on Monday, July 26.

Top Two!

Upward Bound Students Stand Out against Big Tobacco! Their excellent work has placed Grant County as one of the top 2 Counties in the Northern half of Indiana for Voice Movement!!!

First Friday

First Friday July 2, 2010.

4-H

A group of Boys & Girls Club members hosted a booth at the Grant County 4-H Fair. They did a terrific job and had lots of fun!

Speakin' Out with Style!

Marion’s Community Youth Outreach Center hosted a youth conference with an emphasis on health. Twenty-five students & their adult leaders learned about the health risks and advertising tricks of Big Tobacco.

Don't Glam Tobacco

Voice Students participated in the “Don’t Glam Tobacco” Campaign at Marion’s 1st Friday in May. Over 100 petitions were signed in support of censoring tobacco content in kids films & prohibiting movie makers from accepting incentives for promoting Big Tobacco ‘s products in their films.

Healthy Kids Day at YMCA

Youth helped the kids trace their hand and sign their name as a promise to stay tobacco free!!

McCulloch M.S. students taught the children about the poisons that are in cigarettes and about how smoking will make them sick!

T-Shirts with a Purpose

15 youth from the Boys & Girls Club met together to talk about the deceptive, youth-targeted marketing tricks of Big Tobacco. The students each made a t-shirt with a message against Big Tobacco.

Kick Butts

The students traced each other’s outlines on the sidewalk in order to represent tobacco’s death toll. They also held up signs that revealed Big Tobacco’s marketing tactics and the stand that they were taking against this.


McCulloch M.S. VOICE students met outside of Marion’s Five Points Mall to speak out against the youth targeted marketing tactics of the Tobacco Industry. They did a great job sharing their cause with the patrons.

Welcome

Welcome to Tobacco Free Grant County!

Our Primary Goals are:

-Increase the percentage of non-smoking adults through promotion of Indiana’s Tobacco Quitline.
-Decrease the percentage of women who smoke during pregnancy.
-Decrease the initiation of tobacco use among youth through VOICE programming and activism.
-Increase the number of school corporations with 100% tobacco-free campus policies.
Build Grant County’s Tobacco Coalition.

We support VOICE. Voice has three key messages:
--Empower teens with the information they need to fight back against the Tobacco Industry and reduce tobacco use in Indiana.
--We are not against smokers. We are against the Tobacco Industry.
--We want to expose the unfair marketing practices, lies and manipulation of the Tobacco Industry, targeting teens to replace dead smokers.

We support the Indiana Tobacco Cessation and Prevention QuitLine. The Indiana Tobacco Quitline provides free, confidential telephone counseling for smokers and tobacco users who want to quit. Highly trained Quit Coaches help the caller create an individualized quit plan and then arrange four telephone-counseling sessions with the individual. Callers also receive a Quit Kit in the mail and 2 weeks of free Nicotine Replacement Therapy. (Pregnant women receive 10 counseling cessions and no NR.T)

For more information, please contact: Jenalee Veenkant at 480.284.3728.