The Wisconsin African American Tobacco Prevention Network and the City of Milwaukee Tobacco-Free Alliance joined forces to conduct compliance checks Cigarettes and other tobacco products (OTPs) … [Read more...]
Everyone WINS when we work together to Prevent Youth Access to Tobacco Products
The Wisconsin African American Tobacco Prevention Network and the City of Milwaukee Tobacco- Free Alliance joined forces to conduct compliance checks Cigarettes and other tobacco products (OTPs) … [Read more...]
The Wisconsin African American Tobacco Prevention Network provided quit smoking information to Juneteenth festival participants
The Wisconsin African American Tobacco Prevention Network (WAATPN) provided tobacco and quit smoking information to Juneteenth festival participants. The Network participated in the festival to help … [Read more...]
Concerned teens fight to make a difference among peers and the community
Are tobacco products delicious? Or “Manipulicious”? To Milwaukee’s young Fighting Against Corporate Tobacco (FACT) members, the tobacco industry’s youthfully packaged, candy-flavored tobacco products … [Read more...]
Tobacco Prevention and Control Program volunteers among hundreds who testified at Milwaukee Hearing
Wisconsin African American Tobacco Prevention Network represented The state’s Tobacco Prevention and Control Program (TPCP) was well represented in the hundreds of people who attended and testified … [Read more...]
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Continue sacrificing for the greater good
By Lorraine Lathen, M.A. Throughout Black History individuals sacrificed their livelihood, wellbeing and even their lives for the greater good, and although African Americans have made … [Read more...]
WAATPN hosted community events to address tobacco disparities
Tobacco related statistics are available and staggering: An estimated 45,000 African Americans will die from smoking each year, according to the Campaign for Tobacco Free Kids, and young adults (ages … [Read more...]
Wisconsin Wins program implemented state compliance checks in City of Milwaukee
The Wisconsin African American Tobacco Prevention Network spearheaded the project in the City of Milwaukee On the streets they call them cigs, looseys and blunts, to name a few, but no matter what … [Read more...]
November is Lung Cancer Awareness Month
Tobacco-free coalitions work to make a difference Nearly 2,250 Wisconsinites die from smoking-induced lung cancer; that accounts for 79 percent of all lung cancer deaths, according to the 2010 Burden … [Read more...]
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Despite smoke-free law, much work is needed
By Lorraine Lathen, M.A. The legislation passed, and now Wisconsin has been smoke-free for 103 days. But the fight against smoking-induced adversity is not over. Both locally and nationally, … [Read more...]