• 2010 TFKC Policy Platform
• TFKC Strategic Plan & Correspondence
Kansas now has 36 cities with clean indoor air ordinances.
Many are complete
ordinances that restrict smoking in bars, restaurants and workplaces. In
addition, Johnson County and Harvey County have resolutions that prohibit
smoking in many enclosed public places and workplaces in unincorporated areas.
•
Kansas Clean Indoor Air Ordinances by Level
UPDATED AS OF OCTOBER 2009.
21 TASK Groups Receive Grant Awards
Tobacco Free Kansas Coalition would
like to announce their latest round of TASK grantees.
Grant projects will focus on implementing youth activities targeted towards
tobacco prevention. TASK is a statewide youth movement against tobacco.
Grantees were awarded up to $1,250 and will run January 12 through April 30,
2010.
See the list for awarded grants.
Kansas Youth Empowerment Summit was a huge success!
Secondhand smoke and smokefree workplace advertisements
developed by TASK youth and Jones Huyett Productions and funded by Blue
Cross/Blue Shield of Kansas. Click the links below to view each ad on
YouTube.
A youth tobacco prevention
summit was held in Salina on the 14th of November at the Kansas
Wesleyan University. The session began with youth leaders welcoming almost120
Kansas youth ages 11 to 18 to a celebration of youth efforts to reduce tobacco
use by young people in Kansas. The keynote presentation was provided by Chad
Bullock, the 20-year old winner of the 2008 Teen Choice’s “Do Something” award.
He focused on engaging youth in tobacco prevention efforts across the state of
Kansas by showing what he had done and what other youth can do in their own
communities to keep young people grow up tobacco free.
Click here
for full press release.
