Tammi Meissner represented the NNN and SEARHC at the Jim Beard Memorial Fishing Derby. She generated awareness of cigarette butt litter and the Alaska Quit Line.

Over 300 Attend Jim Beard Memorial Fishing Derby

The Jim Beard Memorial Fishing Derby was held on June 16, 2018 in Thorne Bay, Alaska.  Representing the Southeast Alaska Regional Health Consortium and National Native Network, Tammi Meissner attended and provided information on the Alaska Quit Line 1-800-784-8669 and on cigarette butts as toxic waste.  Over 300 people were in attendance from all communities on Prince of Wales Island.

               

 

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75 Years Later:  The Impact of the 1950 Papers on Smoking and Lung Cancer | This symposium will celebrate the achievements that have occurred over the past 75 years in the fields of tobacco control, lung cancer epidemiology and causal inference.  Two seminal papers on lung cancer and smoking initiated these three areas of scholarship in 1950.  Since then, significant public health, policy, and research contributions have been made by scholars around the world.  In this symposium, speakers will highlight such accomplishments and present their current research in these fields. | DOWNLOAD FLIER | REGISTER HERE

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