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Tobacco
Awareness Program (TAP)
WHO WE
ARE
TAP is a
local and state-wide known agency that travels to schools, businesses and
other organizations giving lectures on the hazards of tobacco.
MISSION
STATEMENT
To give
students as well as adults the educational opportunity to know what the
consequences can be by using tobacco products of any kind. To educate
children and adults in the hazards of cigarette tobacco, secondhand smoke,
smokeless tobacco and chewing tobacco. TAP teaches adult and adolescent
facilitator classes in smoking cessation and provides free smoking
cessation classes to those wanting to quit tobacco.
Interested in a class on how to quit
tobacco?
| ADULT, ADOLESCENTS AND
YOUTH
Contact: R. Armando Arevalo or Kelli Glynn
Community
Prevention Services, Inc.
(910)
353-0972
onslowcommunityprevention@yahoo.com
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MEETINGS: Meetings are held the fourth Tuesday each month at 4 pm
at 399 Johnson Boulevard, Jacksonville. For more information contact
(910) 353-0972.
ONSLOW COUNTY MILESTONES TOWARD
SMOKE-FREE AIR!
Onslow
County Schools 100% tobacco-free as of July 2004!
Onslow
Memorial Hospital will be 100% tobacco-free as of September 2008!
Governor Perdue signed House Bill 2, the smoking
ban, into law. The law will be effective January 2, 2010!
OCTOBER IS HEALTHY LUNG MONTH
The time is always right to stop
smoking. At
www.cancer.org,
the American Cancer Society posts a detailed timeline on the health
benefits of quitting smoking to include: 20 minutes after quitting:
Your heart rate and blood pressure drops. 12 hours after
quitting: The carbon monoxide level in your blood drops to normal
just to start the path toward a healthier lifestyle!
In conjunction with the Great American
Smoke Out 2008, an air quality monitoring study was conducted at local
eateries in Onslow County. Please see related article “Group
wants law to protect non-smokers”
in the Daily News at:
http://www.jdnews.com/news/smoking-60687-restaurants-smoke.html.
Have a positive effect on your health by quitting smoking and the
health of others by eliminating secondhand smoke! 2008 Air Quality
Monitoring Report.
SECOND HAND SMOKE & AIR QUALITY
HOUSE BILL SMOKING BILL

RELATED OBSERVANCES
A SMOKE-FREE
DINING GUIDE for Onslow County restaurants is available by calling
(910)
355.2447.
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