MEDIA ADVISORY: Community College of Philadelphia is Kicking Butts and Taking Names

Contact: Linda Wallace, 215-751-8082, liswallace@ccp.edu

WHO: Community College of Philadelphia with over 30,000 students and more than 1,400 faculty, administrative and support staff.

WHAT: Community College of Philadelphia will commemorate its new smoke-free initiative during Kick Butts Day, a national platform to raise awareness about youth smoking.

WHEN: Wednesday, March 15, 2017, 12 to 2 p.m.

WHERE: Community College of Philadelphia, Bonnell Building Lobby, 1700 Spring Garden Street

DETAILS: In January, students at Community College of Philadelphia became the largest smoke-free student population in Philadelphia. The college will hold a resource fair, which joins more than 1,000 events occurring worldwide, in recognition of Kick Butts Day – an initiative organized by Tobacco-Free Kids.

The campus resource fair will highlight the harmful consequences of smoking and offer students and staff smoking cessation resources. There will be a particular focus on smoking’s effects on the brain in conjunction with National Brain Awareness Week.

Employees from human resources, the office of student affairs, the psychology department, allied health, the counseling department, and the Veterans Resources Center along with the City of Philadelphia Department of Public Health and other organizations will be on hand to support participants in kicking their smoking habits. Students and staff members will have an opportunity to win either a $100 Visa gift card or a FitBit when they submit their “I quit smoking” stories. All story submissions will be posted on the college’s no-smoking webpage, under the EX-Smokers Hall of Fame Gallery.

 

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