Floyd County Tobacco Prevention and Cessation
PO Box 8
101 St. Anthony Dr.
Mt. St. Francis, IN 47146
P: 812-923-3400
F: 812-923-9870

 
Partnerships working together to create healthy, smoke-free environments for all citizens through the promotion of anti-tobacco use norms.

The strategy of the Floyd County Tobacco Prevention and Cessation Partnership is to collaborate in true partnership form with the Floyd County Alcohol Tobacco and Other Drug Task Force. It is the belief that in this manner we can only strengthen our efforts, encourage communication and ultimately have more significant outcomes.

Ultimately the main strategies we will employ reduce the use of tobacco products is to:
  1. Build a stronger, diverse coalition effort that incorporates educating and recruiting key opinion leaders.
  2. Assist in the provision of cessation services through the use of a network of hospital based services, community based culturally sensitive services, and worksite-based cessation services.
  3. Advocate for smoke free environments in all public places including worksites and school campuses.
  4. Continue tobacco compliance checks to uphold tobacco control laws specific to youth access, identification, signage, and other regulations as appropriate.
  5. Engage youth through school-based prevention programming, community-based youth prevention programming, and other youth led initiatives.
  6. Provide community education that will also reach broad representation within the community (including minority and socioeconomically challenged populations).
Missuable objectives include:

Increase proportion of Hoosiers not exposed to secondhand smoke by increasing number of smoke free policies for employers, schools, restaurants and bars.

Decrease Indiana adult smoking rates by increasing the availability of appropriate tobacco cessation services in the community for adults and youth.

Protect and maintain a state and local infrastructure necessary to lower tobacco use rates by increasing the extent of participation by partners within the broadbased coalition, and the extent of participation by groups representing disparately affected populations in the community.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
Random Fact #4: In Indiana tobacco kills more than one Hoosier every hour. That’s 28 Hoosiers every day or 10,300 every year.