Smokeout. A campus event planned for November 18th with the goal to help students at CSULB to quit smoking. In exchange for the students pack of cigarettes, they will recieve a turkey sandwich, since they are goin' cold turkey.
The Cal State Long Beach Health Science Student Association (HSSA) helped to plan the event. It is a national event sponsored by the American Cancer Society in which many different schools participate.
The Cal State Long Beach Health Science Student Association (HSSA) helped to plan the event. It is a national event sponsored by the American Cancer Society in which many different schools participate.
Smokeout is an annual event featuring games and educational information about cigarette smoking and free give-aways, such as quit kits.
"The event will also feature a graveyard with fake tombstones along the Friendship Walk, featuring the names of celebrities who have died from smoking." People are allowed to bring photos of people they know that died from smoking and create their own tombstones.
In an article by Rachel Furlong a writer for CSULB 49er i found that "In addition to HSSA, the CSULB Center for Health Care Innovation Tobacco Control Program, the Health Centers Alcohol, Tobacco and Other Drugs Prevention Program, Campuses Organized and United for Good Health, the American Cancer Society and the Long Beach Department of Health Tobacco Control and Prevention Program are collaborating to put together the event."
Though it seems exciting and encouraging, students and other smokers wonder how much this program will "help with their addiction."
"The event will also feature a graveyard with fake tombstones along the Friendship Walk, featuring the names of celebrities who have died from smoking." People are allowed to bring photos of people they know that died from smoking and create their own tombstones.
In an article by Rachel Furlong a writer for CSULB 49er i found that "In addition to HSSA, the CSULB Center for Health Care Innovation Tobacco Control Program, the Health Centers Alcohol, Tobacco and Other Drugs Prevention Program, Campuses Organized and United for Good Health, the American Cancer Society and the Long Beach Department of Health Tobacco Control and Prevention Program are collaborating to put together the event."
Though it seems exciting and encouraging, students and other smokers wonder how much this program will "help with their addiction."
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