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From writing to your city council member to something as easy as putting a sticker on your restaurant bill, there’s lots you can do to be part of the growing effort to make Louisiana tobacco-free.
Here’s what people in communities across Louisiana are doing in the battle against Big Tobacco.
Lafayette, Lafayette Parish
** Hats off to the Southwest Louisiana Area Health Education Center (SWLAHEC) and the Lafayette Community Healthcare Clinic for working together to make the clinic campus 100% smoke-free. Thanks to your work, patients and visitors to the clinic can now breathe easier. **
Lafayette residents who feel strongly about their right to breathe smoke-free air are rallying to make positive changes in their community. Lead by the American Cancer Society and Southwest Louisiana Area Health Education Center, the Coalition for a Healthy Acadiana Regional Grassroots Effort (CHARGE) is organizing to create more smoke-free environments in Acadiana.
Thanks to CHARGE’s efforts, all high school stadiums and grandstands in Lafayette Parish are now 100% smoke-free. Now we’re working hard to make all our public schools 100% smoke-free. If you live in Acadiana and would like to assist CHARGE with this effort, or would like more information about smoke-free environments, call (337) 991-9460 or email breatheasierlafayette@yahoo.com.
Napoleonville, Assumption Parish
Peers Against Tobacco is taking the lead in Napoleonville and asking the Village Council to adopt a local smoke-free ordinance. Youth and adult advocates are going door-to-door asking for residents to support their effort. They hope their elected representatives will recognize the strong community backing for this effort. For more information on how you can support Peers Against Tobacco in their fight for smoke-free air, call # (985) 369-9754.
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