Arkansas Tobacco-Free Kids Day
The Youth Extinguishing Smoking Team hosted its first Arkansas Tobacco-Free Kids Day on April 2.
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Saving the Lives of Arkansas’s Children Banquet
The Mississippi County Coalition for a Tobacco-Free Arkansas (MCCTFA) will host its fifth annual Saving the Lives of Arkansas’s Children Banquet on April 18. This year, the keynote speaker will be Dr. Cheryl Healton, president and CEO of the American Legacy Foundation. The American Legacy Foundation is best known for its widely successful national Truth campaign, and has recently launched an online cessation tool, becomeanex.org, to help smokers re-learn their lives without cigarettes.
In addition to providing its president as a keynote speaker, American Legacy Foundation is a sponsor of the banquet. The Tobacco Prevention and Cessation Program is a major sponsor as well as local sponsors including Nucor Steel Hickman, Farmer’s Bank and Trust and Dawson Employment Service.
The MCCTFA is a tobacco intervention program based in Blytheville, Arkansas. The coalition began in 2002, and creates health promotion campaigns to build awareness of disparities, treatment options and strategies to reduce tobacco use among youth and adults.
MCCTFA’s Saving the Lives of Arkansas’s Children Banquet will take place at 7 p.m. on April 18, in the fellowship hall of First Missionary Baptist Church in Blytheville. Tickets can be purchased for $25 each at Mississippi County Judge Steve McGuire’s office, or by calling Elroy Brown at 870-763-7167.
