Lung / Tobacco Group Accomplishments

2008

Outreach education conducted countywide on secondhand smoke issues

  1. Current event news, data, legislative updates and Action Alerts provided to Coalition members
  2. Populations targeted: businesses, medical patients, general public
  3. Information packets composed/distributed at community events and advocacy meetings/hearings

Calhoun County Fair booth

  1. disseminated print materials and conducted survey with the public on support for Calhoun County going smokefree

Great American SmokeOut activities conducted:

  1. Local companies participation in Great American SmokeOut activity within their workplaces
  2. Radio and print ads
  3. Participation in health fairs
  4. Bus magnet signage
  5. Messages included in water billings
  6. Local organization websites and personal email slogan inclusions
  7. Trainings conducted:
    • Glaxo SmithKline for medical personnel and public members 4/08

2007

Accomplishments for this group in 2007 are:

  1. Identifying a tobacco cessation counseling resource for the county
  2. Developing a plan toward enactment of a countywide smoke-free regulation
  3. Mobilizing sectors of the community toward passage of a smoke-free regulation
  4. Led a five month campaign, including advocacy work for the passage of the Calhoun County Clean Indoor Air Public Health Regulation in September, 2007 and enactment on January 1, 2008
    • Media information disseminated: press releases, letters to the editor, editorial, press articles, radio interview and a commercial
    • Three Town Halls hosted in Marshall, Battle Creek, and Albion
    • Testimony to Board of Public Health, Calhoun County Commission, City and Village Councils, business administrators
    • Youth Rally held prior to march to County Commission meeting
    • Instigators in process toward Battle Creek Health Systems going smokefree
  5. Great American SmokeOut activities conducted:
    • MI Quit Kits and event posters distributed
  6. Trainings conducted:
    • American Cancer Society Fresh Start Program for area company leaders 12/07

2006

Accomplishments for this group in 2006 are:

  1. Great American SmokeOut activities conducted:
    • Pledges by area restaurants to be smokefree for a day on the G.A.S.