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Everyone WINS when we work together to Prevent Youth Access to Tobacco Products

August 20, 2011

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...]

Popular Interests In This Article: Cigarettes, Tobacco Prevention, Tobacco Sales To Minors, Wisconsin African American Tobacco Prevention Network, Wisconsin Wins

Everyone WINS when we work together to Prevent Youth Access to Tobacco Products

July 16, 2011

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...]

Popular Interests In This Article: Compliance Checks, Milwaukee Police Department, Tobacco Sales To Minors, Tobacco-Free Alliance, Wisconsin African American Tobacco Prevention Network

The Wisconsin African American Tobacco Prevention Network provided quit smoking information to Juneteenth festival participants

July 2, 2011

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...]

Popular Interests In This Article: Billy Spencer, Juneteenth Day, Michael Campbell, Nikiya Harris, Wisconsin African American Tobacco Prevention Network

Concerned teens fight to make a difference among peers and the community

May 7, 2011

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...]

Popular Interests In This Article: Fighting Against Corporate Tobacco, Manipulicious, Wisconsin African American Tobacco Prevention Network, Wisconsin Wins

Tobacco Prevention and Control Program volunteers among hundreds who testified at Milwaukee Hearing

April 23, 2011

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...]

Popular Interests In This Article: Fighting Against Corporate Tobacco, Funding Cuts, Joint Committee on Finance, Wisconsin African American Tobacco Prevention Network, Wisconsin Tobacco Prevention and Control Program, Wisconsin Tobacco Prevention and Poverty Network

EXCEPT WHERE INDICATED, THE OPINIONS EXPRESSED ON THIS PAGE ARE NOT NECESSARILY THOSE OF THE MILWAUKEE COURIER

Continue sacrificing for the greater good

February 12, 2011

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...]

Popular Interests In This Article: Harriet Tubman, Lorraine Lathen, Quitting Smoking, Wisconsin African American Tobacco Prevention Network, Wisconsin Tobacco Prevention and Control Program

WAATPN hosted community events to address tobacco disparities

December 31, 2010

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...]

Popular Interests In This Article: Lung Cancer Awareness Month, Wisconsin African American Tobacco Prevention Network

Wisconsin Wins program implemented state compliance checks in City of Milwaukee

December 18, 2010

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...]

Popular Interests In This Article: Compliance Checks, Tobacco Sales To Minors, Wisconsin African American Tobacco Prevention Network, Wisconsin Tobacco Prevention and Poverty Network, Wisconsin Wins

November is Lung Cancer Awareness Month

November 13, 2010

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...]

Popular Interests In This Article: American Lung Association, Church Outreach Coalition, New Concept Self-Development Center, Salvation Army, Wisconsin African American Tobacco Prevention Network, Wisconsin Tobacco Prevention and Control Program

EXCEPT WHERE INDICATED, THE OPINIONS EXPRESSED ON THIS PAGE ARE NOT NECESSARILY THOSE OF THE MILWAUKEE COURIER

Despite smoke-free law, much work is needed

November 6, 2010

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...]

Popular Interests In This Article: Lorraine Lathen, Wisconsin African American Tobacco Prevention Network

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