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Tobacco Reduction

  • Community Detailing Initiative

    The Community Detailing Initiative will engage businesses and community organizations where young adults “hang out” to promote cessation resources. These community partners know youth – their customers – and youth culture, and can reach them where they socialize and have fun; at bars, restaurants, shopping malls, events and recreation centres. Jack Boomer Project Manager Telephone:…

  • Quitters Unite!

    Young adults were born double-clicking; they text until their thumbs are sore and use ‘message’ as a verb. Newspapers and billboards do not reach this media-savvy group – they get their information from twitter, networking sites, blogs and each other. The Heart and Stroke Foundation worked with professors to challenge students in senior level marketing classes to design a multi-media tobacco…

  • Tobacco-Free Post Secondary Initiative

    BCAHL supports tobacco-free campuses. This includes ensuring protection from tobacco marketing, enacting tobacco-free policies, developing cessation resources for students and faculty, and educating trade students on tobacco as a health and safety issue in the workplace. Assisted by the BC Lung Association, schools are leading the fight against tobacco by creating healthier learning environments for…

  • Tobacco-Free Workplace Initiative

    Most adults in BC spend one-third of every day at work. And 19 to 29 year-olds are the fastest growing segment of the BC labour force. So it makes sense to aim tobacco-free programs at young workers in the workplace. The Canadian Cancer Society is working with employers, unions, and industry health and safety associations…

  • BCAHL Tobacco Reduction Strategy

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