Louisiana Public Health Institute
FACT:
An estimated 610-1,090 adults, children and babies will die each year from secondhand smoke and pregnancy smoking.

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TFL partners with five organizations in a statewide partnership program to change cultural attitudes about smoking and establish smoke-free businesses and campuses across the state:

The Council on Alcohol and Drug Abuse of Greater New Orleans implements Toward No Tobacco (TNT), a nationally recognized, best practice curriculum, designed to motivate youth to avoid using tobacco products and to make their homes and cars smoke-free. The program is used in area schools with the help of bilingual educators from CADA, the Tangipahoa Alcohol and Drug Abuse Council (TADAC) and PRIDE of St. Tammany, for Spanish and Vietnamese students. CADA also assists school campuses in complying with Act 815, which prohibits smoking on school property and grounds, effective January 1.

The Louisiana Rural Health Association promotes and establishes rural hospitals, health clinics and Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs) as 100% smoke-free worksites and campuses. LRHA also increases awareness of and access to smoking cessation programs at recruited facilities to increase the number of smoke-free rural hospital campuses and to reduce exposure to secondhand smoke.

Louisiana State University and Southern University promote SmokingWords, an information and advertising campaign for college students, to inform students about the health risks of smoking and secondhand smoke. SmokingWords provides updated research to youth, who are often the target audience most vulnerable to tobacco company promotions, to discourage them from smoking on campus and motivate them to support and advocate for anti-smoking policies on their campuses.

The Mary Bird Perkins Cancer Center conducts cessation programs and service trainings for health professionals in the Baton Rouge and Mandeville areas on patient screening and counseling methods to promote cessation of tobacco use. They also distribute cessation resources at various health-related events.

The Southwest Louisiana Area Health Education Center facilitates training in communities within rural health networks to assist in compliance with the Louisiana Smoke-Free Air Act. Additionally, SWLAHEC establishes and maintains high school youth tobacco prevention programs in Lake Charles and Lafayette Parish and college youth tobacco advocacy and prevention programs at the University of Louisiana in Lafayette, Louisiana State University in Eunice and McNeese State University.