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Volume 9 Number 8 Health 'Tips From Former
Smokers' Ads Focus on Living with Vision Loss and Colorectal Cancer
April 2015
Hampton Bay Days Announces Poster Contest for 33rd Annual Festival
Bay Days, the city’s largest annual festival,
Hampton, Virginia- Hampton is now accepting
entries
for the 33rd annual Hampton Bay Days Poster Contest! Open to all amateur and professional artists, the competition will help decide the artwork chosen for the official 2015 poster.
The cost to enter the 33rd annual
Hampton Bay Days Festival Poster Contest is $35 per entry. Artwork submitted must be original and both traditional,
and non-traditional, in-
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is launching
and its
2015 “Tips From Former Smokers” campaign with a series of powerful new ads featuring former smokers who suffer from smoking-related illnesses, including vision loss and colorectal cancer.
Ads also highlight the benefits of
quitting for smokers’ loved ones, and the importance of quitting cigarettes completely, not just
cutting down.
Beginning March 30, these ads will run for 20 weeks on television, radio, billboards,
online, and in magazines, and newspapers.
CDC’s successful Tips national tobacco education campaign has helped prompt millions of smokers to try to quit since it began in 2012. It has also proven to be a “best buy” in public health by costing just $393 to save a year of life.
“These former smokers are helping save tens of thousands of lives by sharing their powerful stories of how smoking has affected them,” said CDC Director Tom Frieden, M.D., M.P.H.
In 2014, theaters, months of chemotherapy. She
needed an ostomy bag taped to a hole in her abdomen to collect waste.
Tiffany, 35, whose mother died from lung cancer when Tiffany was 16. She quit smoking when her own daughter turned 16 so she could be around for important milestones in her daughter’s life. Tiffany’s ad will run as a public service announcement.
Kristy, 35, who tried using
e-cigarettes to quit smoking cigarettes but ended up using both products instead of quitting. Kristy then suffered a collapsed lung, and was diagnosed with early COPD (lung disease) before she quit smoking completely.
Nationally, about 3 in 4 adult
e-cigarette users also smoke cigarettes. If you only cut down the number of cigarettes you smoke by adding another tobacco product, like e-cigarettes, you still face serious health risks. Smokers must quit
smoking completely to
fully protect their health -- even a few cigarettes a day are dangerous. Kristy’s ads will be featured on the radio and in print.
“These new real-life ads will help smokers quit, adding years to their lives and life to their years.”
Tips ads had an
immediate and strong impact. When the ads were on the air, about 80 percent national
more people called
for free help. Since 2012, Tips ads have generated more than
quitline, 1-800-QUIT-NOW, 500,000
additional calls to the toll-free quitline number.
One of this year’s new ad
participants is Marlene, 68, who started smoking in high school and began losing her vision to macular degeneration
at age 56. Besides
quitting smoking, the best chance for slowing her vision loss is a drug that must be injected through a needle into her eyes. To date, she has had more than 100 shots in each eye. “This will probably go on for the rest of my life,” said Marlene. “If I’d had a crystal ball many years ago, I would never have put that first cigarette in my mouth.”
The ads also feature:
Mark, 47, an Air Force veteran who used cigarettes and smokeless tobacco through two tours of duty in the Persian Gulf. He quit in 2009 when he developed rectal cancer at age 42.
Julia, 58, who smoked for more than 20 years before developing colon cancer at age 49, followed by surgery
the heroes,”
“All the Tips ad participants are said Tim McAfee,
M.D.,
M.P.H., senior medical officer in CDC’s Office on Smoking and Health. “By courageously sharing their painful personal stories, they’re
millions of Americans to make the life-saving decision to quit smoking.”
than 480,000 Americans each year and
Cigarette remains
the cause of
disease, about 30 more suffer at least one serious illness from smoking.
The Tips ads encourage smokers to call 1-800-QUIT-NOW or to visit
www.cdc.gov/tips to view the personal stories from the campaign.
The
website includes detailed assistance developed by the National Cancer Institute to support smokers trying to quit.
takes a devastating toll on our nation’s economy.
Besides the human cost, smoking It
costs more than $300
billion a year—nearly $170 billion in direct medical care for adults and more than $156 billion in lost productivity. The Tips campaign serves as an important counter to the more than $8.3 billion spent
annually by the
tobacco industry to make cigarettes more attractive and more affordable, particularly to young people.
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smoking kills more leading
preventable death and disease in the United States. For every American who dies from a
smoking-related inspiring
HRM Healthy Recipe Smothered Greens
This makeover recipe substitutes high-sodium, high-fat meats with smoked, skinless turkey breast. This way you keep the flavor but reduce the fat and sodium!
Ingredients
• 2 pounds greens (collard, mustard, turnip, kale, or mixture)
• 3 cups water • ¼ pound smoked turkey breast, skinless • 1 tablespoon hot pepper, freshly chopped • ¼ teaspoon cayenne pepper • 1 teaspoon cloves, ground • 2 cloves garlic, crushed • ½ teaspoon thyme • 1 stalk scallion, chopped • 1 teaspoon ginger, chopped • ¼ cup onion, chopped
Directions
1. Prepare greens by washing thoroughly and removing stems.
2. Tear or slice leaves of greens into bite-sized pieces.
3. Place all ingredients except greens into large saucepan and bring to a boil.
4. Add greens to turkey stock. Cook 20 to 30 minutes until tender.
terpretations are welcome. Any work submitted should be representative of the downtown Hampton waterfront and surrounding communities. Multiple will
be
will receive $500 cash. The winner will
Benefit Concert FROM PAGE 1
The purpose of EUF is to impact the
community
counseling, education, scholarship, and food service programs.
inception EUF has given well over $15,000.00 throughout the Hampton Roads Community
via its
programs. Theressa Brown of 95.7 will host the event.
many
through therapeutic Since its
Sponsorship and Advertising
opportunities range from $10.00 to $500.00.
In addition, tickets for this
event are priced at $25 for per adult and may be purchased by contacting the GYG office at (757) 595-8008 between the hours of 9:00 a.m. and 3:00 p.m. Monday –Friday .
have their piece recognized as this year’s 33rd annual Hampton Bay Days Official Poster. The work will become property of Hampton Bay Days, Inc. and be used to promote the festival. The winner will be announced on or before July 2, 2015.
For more information on the 33rd annual Hampton Bay Days Festival Poster Contest, or for an official entry form, contact the Hampton Bay Days Office at 757/727-8314 or by email at
cmasterstaff@hampton.gov.
In 1982, Hampton Bay Days
entries by a single artist accepted,
however, each
will require a separate entry fee. No computer generated works are eligible.
The winner of this year’s contest also receive a complimentary
booth at the festival, September 11-13, 2015, to sell original artworks and
was created as a unique outlet to educate the public on the importance of the Chesapeake Bay in the Coastal Virginia region, as well as the rest of Virginia and Maryland. The goal of the festival is to provide an entertaining atmosphere while ultimately serving the greater purpose of highlighting aspects of the bay and promoting its upkeep and conservation. This year the festival takes place September 11-13, 2015.
Nutrition Information Makes 5 servings
Serving size: 1 cup
Each serving provides: Calories: 80 Total Fat: 2 g
Saturated Fat: less than 1 g Cholesterol: 16 mg Sodium: 378 mg Carbohydrates: 9 g Dietary Fiber: 4 g Protein: 9 g Potassium: 472 mg
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