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Amy J. Thompson, Ph D¹, Laura Vernon, BS², Jackie Iwanski, BS³, and Renee Axiotis, PhD³. (1) Adult, Health, Counseling and Vocational Education, Kent State University, 316 White Hall, Kent, OH 44242, 330-672-0676, athomp4@kent.edu, (2) Kent State, White Hall, Kent, OH 44266, (3) Adult, Health, Counseling and Vocational Education, Kent State, 316 White Hall, Kent, OH 44242

Tobacco continues to be a leading cause of preventable death. An increasing number of municipalities are mobilizing efforts to pass smoke-free ordinances in public places. Although a plurality of studies have implicated secondhand smoke as a potential health risk factor there are still substantial barriers to passing legislation that would prohibit or limit smoking in such places as restaurants, bars, and bowling alleys. This presentation will outline a new approach to passing local tobacco control policy through formation of community and university partnerships. Creation of such a community partnership also may foster undergraduate and graduate service learning experience in the form of conducting focus groups, creation of social marketing messages and their evaluation. Members of the campus health honorary Eta Sigma Gamma were also exposed to advocacy while collecting petition signatures on campus and in the community

Learning Objectives:

• Participants will be able to identify effective strategies to create community and university partnerships to assist with implementing local tobacco control polices.
• Participants will be able to explain the process of mobilizing efforts through focus groups, designing social marketing messages and evaluation to support advocacy for community tobacco control.
• Participants will be able to identify opportunities within undergraduate and graduate health education courses and a health honorary for service learning in relationship to passing local tobacco control policies.

Keywords: Community-Based Partnership, Tobacco Policy

Presenting author's disclosure statement:

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