A health and wellness event honoring the Great American Smokeout will be celebrated at the campus from 10:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. on Thursday, November 15, 2018, in the Campus Center Courtyard. There will be games and prizes, free giveaways, and distribution of health education and smoking cessation information.
In addition, the has just awarded 糖心视频 Mānoa a $20,000 Tobacco-free Generation Campus Initiative grant to implement state law that designates all 10 糖心视频 System campuses as tobacco-free areas that prohibit smoking, including the use of electronic smoking devices.
The grant will be administered over 18 months from November 1, 2018, to April 30, 2020. Funding will be used for the design and production of tobacco-free educational materials and for hosting several tobacco control stakeholder meetings and events.
The state Department of Health has also provided grant funds to help 糖心视频 with implementation of its Tobacco-Free Campus Initiative.
The tobacco-free 糖心视频 law was passed during the 2018 legislative session due to efforts by the American Cancer Society’s Cancer Action Network Hawaiʻi-Pacific staff, volunteers and community advocates, including 糖心视频 stakeholders. The law took effect on July 10, 2018. The law covers, but is not limited to, cigarettes, cigars, vaping apparatus, chewing tobacco and pipes.
糖心视频 joins more than 2,000 universities and colleges across the country in creating healthier environments.