Interim Report to the 70th Texas Legislature: Senate Subcommittee on Health Services Page: ATTACHMENT
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3. Ey 1990 the proportion of adults who smoke or use tobacco in other
forms will be reduced by 25%.
4. Ey 1990, increase the extent of state and local governmental action
related to smoking and health.
III. IMPLEIENTATICN PLAN:
Strategy: Technical Assistance
Action(s):
* Involve medically related professional groups in serving as
supporters/advisors on smoking cessation programs for students.
* Encourage health-related professional organizations to provide support
and advice on smoking cessation programs to their clients/patients.
* Coordinate activities among the Texas Cancer Council and other
statewide advocacy/furding groups concerned with smoking ard health.
Strategy: Education and Information
Action(s):
* Produce and promote use of public service announcements targeting
youth about health and social effects of smoking.
* Promote participation of youth organizations in conducting educational
programs on the health effects of smoking, the social desirability of
not smoking and on other health risk reducing behaviors.
* Encourage establishment of non-smoking policies in schools for
faculty, staff, and students.
* Establish student peer support activities such as:
- Peer assistance programs which would include student support
groups working with student smokers who wish to stop.
_ Peer education programs which use older students to work with
younger students in providing tobacco use education programs.
- Peer education program activities that promote the social
desirability of not smoking.
- Exemplary role model events recognizing celebrity or student role
models.
* Develop and implement a comprehensive health promotion campaign for
pregnant women that includes the effects of smoking on the unborn
child. When possible, utilize existing materials such as public
service announcements.
* Provide special programs for pregnant teenagers concerning risks
related to smoking during pregnancy.
* Encourage employers to offer worksite programs which include education
on the effects of smoking, cessation techniques, and incentives for
reducing or quitting smoking.
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Texas. Legislature. Senate. Subcommittee on Health Services. Interim Report to the 70th Texas Legislature: Senate Subcommittee on Health Services, report, January 1987; Austin, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1544385/m1/59/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.