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Same Game Different Smokers Exhibit Comes to Milwaukee and Highlights the Racism of the Tobacco Industry

April 20, 2024

By Karen Stokes In May, the Wisconsin Tobacco Prevention & Poverty Network (WTPPN) and the Wisconsin African American Tobacco Prevention Network will host “Same Game Different Smokers,” an … [Read more...]

Popular Interests In This Article: Karen Stokes, Same Game Different Smokers, Tobacco Prevention, Wisconsin African American Tobacco Prevention Network, Wisconsin Tobacco Prevention and Poverty Network

Tobacco Prevention Advocates Visit Madison for Black Advocacy Day

March 23, 2024

Members of the Wisconsin African American Tobacco Prevention Network (WAATPN) and Wisconsin Tobacco Prevention & Poverty Network (WTPPN) spent the day in Madison recently, joining others from … [Read more...]

Popular Interests In This Article: Black Advocacy Day, Tobacco Prevention, Wisconsin African American Tobacco Prevention Network, Wisconsin Tobacco Prevention and Poverty Network

Milwaukee Health Department Plans to Address Tobacco Disparities

February 16, 2019

By Ana Martinez-Ortiz When it comes to tobacco, most people know at least one person in his or her life who smokes. In Wisconsin, the state average reaches 16 percent, according to the … [Read more...]

Popular Interests In This Article: Ana Martinez-Ortiz, Dr. Jeanne Kowalik, Tobacco 21, Wisconsin African American Tobacco Prevention Network, Wisconsin Tobacco Prevention and Poverty Network

Local Teens Celebrate Fifth Anniversary of Wisconsin Law Barring Indoor Smoking

August 1, 2015

By Edgar Mendez With the sun shining down on their smiling faces and a gentle breeze keeping them cool, members of FACT, Wisconsin’s youth-led tobacco prevention movement, gathered recently in … [Read more...]

Popular Interests In This Article: E-Cigarettes, Edgar Mendez, Smoke-Free, Wisconsin African American Tobacco Prevention Network, Wisconsin Tobacco Prevention and Poverty Network

Milwaukee teens inspired by “Selma”

February 27, 2015

By Edgar Mendez When Richard Lewis and his wife Lori Lewis raised $41,000 to send 6,000 kids to see “Selma,” the film that relives events tied to the Martin Luther King Jr. led civil rights … [Read more...]

Popular Interests In This Article: Edgar Mendez, Film Screenings, Lori Lewis, Richard Lewis, Selma, Wisconsin Tobacco Prevention and Poverty Network

CYD Youth Working to Better Neighborhoods with the Wisconsin Tobacco Prevention Poverty Network, Senator Lena Taylor & Representative Mandela Barnes

April 19, 2014

Career Youth Development Inc. (CYD) Youth are being trained to work in the communities they live in to make a positive impact. Recently CYD Youth received their training in advocacy from Senator … [Read more...]

Popular Interests In This Article: Career Youth Development, Mandela Barnes, Wisconsin Tobacco Prevention and Poverty Network

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

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

Wisconsin is now Smoke-free, How About You?

November 27, 2010

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Popular Interests In This Article: Robert Bell Photography, Salvation Army, Wisconsin Tobacco Prevention and Poverty Network, Zip Code Project

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