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Big Tobacco's Grip on Colleges and Students Loosens, But Still Holding Strong: New Report Examines Trends on Campuses

Date:9/7/2008

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-- Provide smoking cessation programs to all students, faculty and staff.

-- Implement and enforce strong policies to aid in the prevention,

cessation and elimination of tobacco use across campus.

-- Educate students and faculty about the harmful effects of using tobacco

products, the resources available for cessation and campus policies.

-- Promote and fund research to design and implement smoking and tobacco

use interventions that specifically target college students.

-- Lobby state legislatures to create laws to prohibit tobacco use on

campus.

For a copy of American Lung Association's report on smoking trends on college campuses titled: Big Tobacco on Campus: Ending the Addiction, visit: http://www.lungusa.org. Additional resources for students can be found on our Facebook community at: http://apps.facebook.com/healthylungs/. This report is supported by a grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation in Princeton, New Jersey.

For more information on the American Lung Association's Smokefree Air 2010 Challenge, go to http://www.lungusa.org/smokefree2010.

About the American Lung Association: Beginning our second century, the American Lung Association is the leading organization working to prevent lung disease and promote lung health. Lung disease death rates are currently increasing while other major causes of death are declining. The American Lung Association funds vital research on the causes of and treatments for lung disease. With the generous support of the public, the American Lung Association is "Improving life, one breath at a time." For more information about the American Lung Association, a Charity Navigator Four Star Charity, or to support the work it does, call
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