What Can I Do to Make a Difference Module 14

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What can I do to make a difference? There is a lot you can do to help.

You can help by:

• Pledging to be tobacco free.

• Talking with your friends and family about never starting tobacco use.

• Joining a TRU group in your community.

• Working to pass tobacco-free policies in your community.

• Talking with your friends and family about stopping tobacco use.

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How do I take the pledge to be tobacco free?

It is easy for you to take the pledge and for you to urge your friends to do the same.

Just go to: http://

www.realityunfiltered.com/Register.aspx

to take the pledge today.

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Other than what I learned today, what are other things that I can share with my friends?

www.realityunfiltered.com

Go to the TRU website for facts and other cool games that you can share with your friends.

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To find a coordinator in your area, go to http://www.realityunfiltered.com/

How can I join a TRU group in my community?

Joining TRU is easy.

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Why should I work to help pass tobacco-free laws or policies? Policies make a difference.

• Tobacco-free polices help reduce tobacco use.

• Heart attacks are more likely to happen in the hours after being around smoke because chemicals in tobacco smoke narrow the blood vessels, and raise blood pressure and heart rate, according to the U.S. Surgeon General's Reports from 2006 and 2010.

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What is one example of a law that works?

We know that increasing the costs of a pack of cigarettes keeps people from smoking.

• Making the cost of a pack of cigarettes more expensive keeps people from smoking.

• One way of increasing the costs of a pack of cigarette is to raise the tax.

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• Community parks

• Community recreation facilities

• Workplaces

• Churches or other places of worship

• Private schools

• Colleges and universities

• Private daycare centers

What are places that could benefit from tobacco-free laws or policies?

Tobacco-free policies can make the places where people work and play healthier.

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How can I help work to pass tobacco- free laws or policies?

Work with your local TRU Group to learn the necessary skills you need in a fun way.

By being a member of TRU, you will learn the skills you need to make change in your community in a fun and exciting way!

TRU Youth learn things such as

1. How to make change.

2. Asking “why and how” questions.

3. Taking action to create change.

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What can I do to protect myself and my family from secondhand smoke?

Our health is precious. Keep you and your family free from secondhand smoke.

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Slide 7:

– U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. “A Report of the Surgeon General: How Tobacco Smoke Causes Disease. The Biology and Behavioral Basis for Smoking-Attributable Disease Fact Sheet,” accessed January 12, 2012, http://www.surgeongeneral.gov/library/tobaccosmoke/factsheet.html

– North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services. 2011. “The North Carolina Smoke Free Restaurants and Bars Law and Emergency Department Admissions for Acute Myocardial Infarction.” http://www.tobaccopreventionandcontrol.ncdhhs.gov/smokefreenc/docs/TPCB-2011SFNCReport-SHD.pdf

Slide 8: Chaloupka, F. J., K. M. Cummings, C. P. Morley, and J. K. Horan. 2002. “Tax, Price and Cigarette Smoking: Evidence from the Tobacco Documents and Implications for Tobacco Company Marketing Strategies.” Tobacco Control 11:i62–i72. doi:10.1136/tc.11.suppl_1.i62.

Slide 10: Adapted from North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services. 2002. Question Why Guide to Youth Empowerment for Tobacco Control. Raleigh, NC: State of North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services.

References

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Slides 1 and 2: Photographs courtesy of iStockphoto.

Slide 3: Photograph courtesy of North Carolina Health and Wellness Trust Fund.

Slides 4-6: Screen captures from Tobacco Reality Unfiltered website (www.realityunfiltered.com), courtesy of North Carolina Health and Wellness Trust Fund.

Slide 7: Photograph courtesy of Thinkstock/Photos.com.

Slide 8: Photograph courtesy of Ljupco/Photos.com.

Slide 9: Photographs courtesy of Comstock/Photos.com (center and bottom right); Warren Goldswain/Photos.com (bottom left); Gary Blakeley/Photos.com (bottom center).

Slide 10: Photograph courtesy of North Carolina Health and Wellness Trust Fund.

Slide 11: Photograph courtesy of Images by Sterling (Sterling M. Fulton-Smith).

Photographs are used for illustrative purposes only, and any persons depicted are models.

 

Photograph Credits

Prepared by Sterling Fulton-Smith, North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services; Sandhya Joshi, RTI International; Caley Burrus, Duke

University; Ronny Bell, Maya Angelou Center for Health Equity; and Barri Burrus, RTI International.

March 2012