This portion of our website is designed to provide important tips to coalitions for building your movement and making the S.T.O.P.S. mission a reality. Updates will be made often and posted in our Newsroom and eNews. Please send us any suggestions or effective efforts from your coalition to contact@marylandSTOPS.org
Many coalitions in the state of Maryland and other states around the country have creative events to engage the campus community in activities related to tobacco awareness and cessation outreach.
For event ideas submitted by colleges and universities around the country, check out Sample Tobacco Programs put together by www.tobaccofreeU.org and www.bacchusnetwork.org.
We would like to post your ideas here so that Maryland STOPS coalitions can share ideas and host similar events. Email us at contact@marylandstops.com with a description of your successful event and we will post it on this page!
Johns Hopkins University (JHU)
Rene Hicks, an international comedian, performed at the Bloomberg Center at Johns Hopkins on March 26, 2008. Rene never smoked, but she was diagnosed with lung cancer from her exposure to secondhand smoke at comedy clubs. Now her passion is to be an example for others by aiding them in overcoming major obstacles and upheavals in their own lives with humor.