Statewide
Advocacy Organizations
|
Tobacco
Prevention & Control Branch - ASSIST
|
| www.communityhealth.dhhs.state.nc.us/tobacco.htm |
919-733-1881 |
| Local
and statewide infrastructure to support smoke-free policies; mini-grants
to local communities, Grassroots Guide to Tobacco-Free Schools and
more! |
| Tobacco Prevention Evaluation Team (TPEP) |
| http://www.tpep.unc.edu |
919-843-1521 |
| TPEP at the UNC's Department of Family Medicine works to evaluate the effectivness of tobacco prevention programs. |
| North
Carolina Alliance for Health |
| www.rtpnet.org/alliance |
919-463-8328 |
| The NC Alliance for Health promotes the approval of policies at the state and local levels to reduce tobacco use and its impact on the health and economic well being of North Carolinians. |
| Working Smoke Free |
| www.workingsmokefree.com |
|
| Provides businesses with the information needed in making and implementing the decision to adopt a smoke-free workplace policy. |
| Smoke Free NC |
| www.SmokeFreeNC.org |
|
| This site is the North Carolina clearinghouse for secondhand smoke information. |
| SAVE-
Survivors and Victims (of tobacco) Empowerment Program |
| www.tobaccosurvivors.org |
888-8-voices |
| Presentations, stories about surviving tobacco-related illness and how ETS affects them; empowerment trainings for survivors. |
| NC Prevention Partners
|
| www.ncpreventionpartners.org |
919-966-9137 |
| Excellent database of cessation resources in the state and in the nation, action alerts, report card on the state of health in North Carolina. |
| Healthy Hospital Initiative |
| www.ncpreventionpartners.org |
919-966-9137 |
| NC Prevention Partners provides training to hospitals interested in becoming tobacco-free campus wide and tracks the counties and hospitals that have passed such policies. Over 30 hospitals have passed policies to become tobacco-free campus wide. If you would like more information, please contact Melva Fager Okun, DrPH, at melva@ncpreventionpartners.org.
|
| American
Cancer Society |
| www.cancer.org |
1-800-ACS-2345 |
| Local, statewide and national infrastructure to support smoke-free policies; fact sheets, model policies. |
| American
Heart Association |
| www.americanheart.org |
919-968-4453 |
| Local, statewide and national infrastructure to support smoke-free policies; fact sheets on ETS and clean indoor air ordinances. |
| American
Lung Association |
| www.lungusa.org |
800-892-5650 |
| Local, statewide and national infrastructure to support smoke-free policies; fact sheets, brochures and videos for specific populations. |
| Quit Now NC! |
| www.quitnownc.org |
800-QUIT-NOW
800-784-8669 |
| Quit Now NC! is a statewide tobacco use cessation partnership that promotes awareness, develops resources, and conducts trainings to help North Carolinians successfully quit tobacco. Quit Now NC! promotes a free telephone-based tobacco cessation quitline which is open from 8:00 a.m. to midnight. For more information about tobacco quitting specialists and programs in your county, log onto www.quitnownc.org and follow the link to the NC Good Health Directory. |
| ?Y Youth Empowerment Centers |
| www.questionwhy.org |
|
| Through multiple strategies and by engaging youth and adults of all ages and backgrounds, Question Why Youth Empowerment Centers enhance existing local and regional tobacco prevention programs through schools, community groups and faith-based organizations. |
|
National
Advocacy Organizations
|
| Americans
for Nonsmokers' Rights |
| www.no-smoke.org |
510-841-3032 |
| Excellent resource! Action alerts, fact sheets, sample letters, proposals as well as links, articles and quotes. |
| Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids |
| www.tobaccofreekids.org |
|
| One
of the nation's largest non-governmental initiatives
to protect children from tobacco addiction and exposure to secondhand
smoke. |
| Smoke-free
Apartment House Registry |
| www.smokefreeapartments.org |
818-363-4220 |
| Legal issues, model policies and tips for implementing the policy. |
| Smoke-Free
Environments Law Project |
| www.tcsg.org/sfelp/home.htm |
734-665-1126 |
| Recent articles, links, public opinion polls, fact sheets, etc. |
| The
Tobacco Control Resource Center, Inc. |
| www.tobacco.neu.edu |
617-373-2026 |
| Lots of info on how the ADA provides protection from ETS |
