ANTHC celebrates 10 year anniversary of tobacco-free campus
November 4, 2016Categories: ANTHC, Healthy People and Prevention
This November marks the Alaska Native Health Campus’ 10-year anniversary of becoming a tobacco-free campus. The Alaska Native Health Campus has been 100 percent tobacco free since 2006 and will celebrate this achievement on Nov. 17 in conjunction with the American Cancer Society’s Great American Smokeout. The American Cancer Society began celebrating the one-day Great American Smokeout event in the 1970s primarily as a way to encourage current tobacco users to make a plan to quit, or to go completely tobacco free on that day. Throughout the years the Great American Smokeout has evolved and many organizations and communities now use it as a way to also celebrate tobacco-free workplace policies and community-wide smokefree workplace laws. When policies such as these are put in place, evidence indicates that current tobacco users are more likely to quit. ANTHC and the Alaska Native Health Campus are proud to be one of the major tobacco-free and smokefree organizations in Alaska. In honor of ANTHC’s 10-year anniversary of going tobacco free there will be a celebration at the ANMC hospital and at the Anchorage Native Primary Care Center on Thursday, Nov.17 from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Certified Tobacco Treatment Specialists will be available to offer guidance and resources for those interested in quitting. For more about the Great American Smokeout visit the American Cancer Society’s website at http://www.cancer.org/healthy/stayawayfromtobacco/greatamericansmokeout/