You can make a difference, even if you don't smoke! The Great American Smokeout is an American Cancer Society initiative with the purpose of nationally drawing attention to prevention and cessation of tobacco use. The efforts started in 1970 in Randolph, Massachusetts, when Arthur P. Mullaney challenged people to quit smoking at least for one day and donate the money they'd have spent on cigarettes to a high school scholarship fund.
On Nov. 18, 1976, one million smokers pledged to be tobacco free due to the efforts of the California Division of the American Cancer Society. This successful event was marked as the first Smokeout, which went nationwide the following year. The events led to establishments becoming smoke free zones, raising taxes on cigarettes, limiting cigarette promotions, and discouraging teen cigarette use.
You can make a difference by participating in the Great American Smokeout event on Nov. 14, 2018 from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. You can help support the Great American Smokeout efforts, increase awareness, and work towards improving the health of our force by pledging to be tobacco free. Booths will be set up around the installation at General Leonard Wood Army Community Hospital's dining facility, the Post Exchange, Mini-mall and the Maneuver Support Center of Excellence's Thurman Hall.
The date for the national Great American Smokeout is Nov. 15th.
For more information please call GLWACH's Public Health Clinic at 573.593.0491.
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