Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2007 08:58:43 -0500

From: Penny Bailey <penny.bailey@TRHD.DST.NC.US>

Subject: Fw: Smoke-free college trend growing

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Subject: NEWS: Smoke-free college trend growing

Smoke-free college trend growing

11-12-07

by Judy Fortin

CNN

GAINESVILLE, Georgia (CNN) -- When 19-year-old Reid Overton wants to = smoke a cigarette on his college campus, he has to walk to a distant = parking lot and get into his car, but he doesn't seem to mind. "Even as = a smoker, I don't like to walk past a cloud of smoke," he says.

Overton is one of 5,300 students at Gainesville State College, an hour = north of Atlanta, Georgia. A 4-year-old ban prohibits anyone from using = tobacco products on campus, including students, faculty and visitors.

A smoke-free campus was the brainchild of longtime college president = Martha Nesbitt, herself a former smoker. "It's just a healthier place to = be," says Nesbitt, "because as you go in a building, you're not going to = have to go through smoke. When you walk out, you don't see cigarette = butts littered around. It's just a cleaner, healthier campus."

Nesbitt reports there haven't been any problems enforcing the ban. Signs = are posted around campus, and the policy is prominently displayed on = everything from the school Web site to admissions applications.

The American Nonsmokers' Rights Foundation reports nearly 60 college = campuses around the United States have smoke-free policies that affect = the entire campus.

Other schools have limited restrictions, banning smoking indoors in = residential housing and student facilities. Nesbitt believes her college = is one of the first to fully prohibit the use of tobacco products.Video = Watch more on efforts to curb smoking on campus =BB

The American Cancer Society says the movement is catching on. "The trend = toward a smoke-free country is going on everywhere," says Daniel Smith, = president of the American Cancer Society Action Network. "I think = college campuses are simply reflecting the same trend we're seeing in = society."

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With the 30th anniversary this week of the nationwide Great American = Smokeout, the cancer society is pushing a smoke-free college campus = initiative. It encourages campus coordinators to hold competitions and = distribute survival kits that include gum and support information.

The group is trying to convince students that if they can quit for a = day, they can quit for good. According to the cancer society, the = prevalence of smoking in the United States is highest among college-age = students, ages 18 to 24. While other age groups are decreasing their = tobacco use, the cancer society says college students are smoking at a = greater rate.

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Those statistics worry Smith. "We know that 30 percent of all cancers = are caused by smoking," he says. He blames the addiction rates among = young adults on heavy marketing efforts on college campuses by tobacco = companies.

"Many people might initially think it's cool. But when they're educated = about the health effects, by that time, they are addicted, and it's very = hard to quit."

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Overton isn't all that worried about cutting back on his pack-a-day = smoking habit, but he says that long walk to his car has provided some = added benefits. "It doesn't encourage me to quit, but it does encourage = me to cut back some."

That's welcome news for some of his nonsmoking classmates. "I'm not = forced to be around all of the smokers," says freshman Matthew Bradford, = 19. "I'm not breathing it in all of the time, and it's nice to get some = fresh air when you get out of class."=20

Judy Fortin is a correspondent with CNN Medical News.=20

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Ann Houston Staples, CHES

Director of Public Education and Communication NC Tobacco Prevention and Control Branch

(704) 543-2347

FAX (704) 543-2348

Cell (980) 297-0267

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#811

Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2007 16:17:34 -0600

From: Debra Lafler <DLafler@WEATRUST.COM>

Subject: fabric for bulletin board

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Does anyone have a suggestion for a type of fabric to put up on a bulletin board?

I'd like to decorate our bulletin boards so the background is not just corkboard.

I have been using paper, but then the paper gets holes in it from tacks or staples and has to be changed regularly.

I am thinking that using a fabric of some sort would be good.

Any thoughts/suggestions?

Debra A. Lafler, MA

Corporate Wellness Coordinator

WEA Trust

45 Nob Hill Rd. Madison WI 53713

608-661-6697 x 2581

DLafler@weatrust.com

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Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2007 17:37:53 -0500

From: Patricia McDiarmid <pmcdiarm@SPFLDCOL.EDU>

Subject: Re: fabric for bulletin board

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I have used burlap with lots of success...that fabric has holes naturally in it and holds up well.

Pat McDiarmid

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Does anyone have a suggestion for a type of fabric to put up on a bulletin

board?

I'd like to decorate our bulletin boards so the background is not just

corkboard.

I have been using paper, but then the paper gets holes in it from tacks or

staples and has to be changed regularly.

I am thinking that using a fabric of some sort would be good.

Any thoughts/suggestions?

Debra A. Lafler, MA

Corporate Wellness Coordinator

WEA Trust

45 Nob Hill Rd. Madison WI 53713

608-661-6697 x 2581

DLafler@weatrust.com

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