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SIRH News Release
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
January 10, 2005
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CONTACT:
Julie Ice, PR Mgr.
(502) 587-4230 |
MEDIA ADVISORY
‘Tar Wars’ to Take Place at Indiana
Schools
Southern Indiana Rehab Hospital, in conjunction with Floyd Memorial Hospital and Health Services, Provides Community Service to Children
Who:
What:
When: |
Floyd County Fourth and Fifth graders
Nationally recognized youth tobacco-free education program ‘Tar
Wars”
January 12 – February 24, 2005 |
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January |
February |
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1/12/05 1:15 p.m.
1/14/05 1:00 p.m.
1/20/05 1:30 p.m.
1/21/05 1:30 p.m.
1/24/05 9:15 a.m.
1/24/05 12:30 p.m.
1/31/05 9:30 a.m.
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2/02/05 9:45 a.m.
2/08/05 12:30
p.m.
2/11/05 8:30 a.m.
2/11/05 1:05 p.m.
2/15/05 1:30 p.m.
2/17/05 11:00 a.m.
2/18/05 9:30 a.m.
2/18/05 2:00 p.m.
2/24/04 1:40 p.m. |
Where:
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January 12
January 14
January 20/21
January 24
January 31
February 2
February 8
February 11
February 15/17/18
February 18
February 24 |
Silver Street Elementary
Pineview Elementary
Galena Elementary
Grantline Elementary
Green Valley Elementary
Greenville Elementary
Fairmont Elementary
Lillian Elementary
S. Ellen Jones Elementary
Floyds Knobs Elementary
Mount Tabor Elementary |
Why:
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To help prevent adolescent tobacco addiction and to
educate students about the consequences of tobacco use |
Presenter:
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Julie Hall, R.N.
Southern Indiana Rehab Hospital |
New Albany, IN…Southern Indiana Rehab Hospital, in conjunction with
Floyd Memorial Hospital and Health Services, will present “Tar Wars”
to fourth and fifth grade students at several elementary schools
during January and February. The American Academy of Family
Physicians national program offers students the ability to
participate in a tobacco-free education and prevention program. The
program, which has been implemented across the country, as well as
internationally, has reached more than 2.5 million children
worldwide.
The mission of the program is to educate youth about leading
tobacco-free lifestyles, thereby enabling them to make positive
health choices and promote personal responsibility for their
well-being.
Throughout the one-hour program, the students participate in a
series of activities in which they will:
- Learn the short-term effects of tobacco-use
- Learn financial implications
- Discover the image and peer pressure attribute to tobacco use
- Experience how smoking decrease lung volume by breathing through a
straw
- and much more.
Photo and interview opportunities will be available.
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