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The
Massachusetts Tobacco Control Program
announced on March 6, 2009, that smokers who call the state's
Quitline (1-800-TRY-TO-STOP) would be able to receive a free
two-week supply of nicotine patches and counseling to help them
quit. Judith Coykendall, director of
Partners for Clean Air, a
program of
Seven Hills Behavioral
Health, and the Department of
Health announced that patches, valued at $50, along
with quit-smoking tips and a list of local programs
that offer individual and group counseling would be
offered until the end of April, 2009. The announcement was made at a
press
conference held at the
southeast regional office of the Massachusetts Department of
Public Health on Purchase Street in New Bedford. Advertisements in English, Spanish and Portuguese
have been posted around the City. The free Nicotine Patch Giveaway Campaign includes
Fall River and 23 towns in southeastern Massachusetts. For more
information about the project, contact
Susan Dickens at
Partners for Clean Air, 508-995-3026, X228. For information
about the Fall River Tobacco Control program, contact
Marilyn Edge, Tobacco Control
Coordinator at 508-324-2423. |
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(Top, middle and
bottom rows) Free Nicotine Patches posters placed by the
Massachusetts Tobacco Control Program
are displayed outside of stores on Pleasant and Bedford Streets
in the Flint. (Middle and bottom row, center) A poster is displayed
outside of Joe's Market directly across from the Cardinal Medeiros
Towers on Robeson Street. (Bottom row, right) A billboard at the corner
of Eastern Avenue and Pleasant Street advertises the availability of
free nicotine patches to local residents who call the the state's
Quitline
(1-800-TRY-TO-STOP) |
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