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Peer
Factor (BUSTED!) is the Tobacco Free Program's teen and youth movement |
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the Peer Factor Challenge! |
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Peer
Factor is About Ordinary People Pledging to Compete
in an Extraordinary Situation
Contact
us to get a free Peer Factor membership kit
and join with other teens to experience the thrills
and emotions as you challenge—and possibly conquer—tobacco. |
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involved in one or more Peer Factor activities. |
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Expose
Truth |
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- Operation
Storefront
Washington County Teens conducted a survey to document
the quantity and placement of tobacco products and
advertisements in retail stores that are targeting
children. Follow-up visits to retail stores informed
them of the survey results and to asked them to pledge
to remove all tobacco advertising placed 3 feet and
below.
- Operation
Storefront Survey Results (PDF)
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Quit
or Help Others Quit Using Tobacco |
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- Sign
up to get a free Peer Factor Membership Kit
- Access
local Teen Cessation Programs
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Clean
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- Peer
Factor members helped survey local restaurant patrons
to gather opinions about smoke-free dining policies.
- Click
here for the results of the restaurant
survey.
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Maribeth Tarpley Garrett at The Washington Hospital Teen
Outreach at 724-222-2311 or mgarrett@healthyteens.com
for more information about Peer Factor
meetings and times. |
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| Teen
Advocacy
Fight
against Big Tobacco, expose THE TRUTH, and be a positive
force among your peers and younger kids!
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Challenge
1 :
Expose Truth |
TRUTH...
"We don't smoke that crap. We reserve that right for
the young, the poor, the Black, and the stupid. We just sell
it."
(Quote from a tobacco company executive during a conversation
with the star of their tobacco advertising campaign)
...AND
DARE
Fight against Big Tobacco, expose THE TRUTH, and be a positive
force among your peers and younger kids!
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Challenge
2:
Quit or Help Others to Quit |
You
must decide if you have the guts and determination to face
your most primal fear—can you succeed in helping your
peers (or yourself) quit tobacco"
"Yes,
it was hard to quit, but you have to take that challenge."
(Quote
from a Peer Factor Champion) |
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Keep
Your Money to Use on Great Stuff
Buying a pack of cigarettes every day costs over $1,600 per
year. Here's what else you could buy with that amount of cash:
- 120
CDs
- 30
pairs of jeans
- tickets
to 40 concerts
- 100
large, deluxe pizzas
- 1 Hawaiian
vacation
After
40 years of smoking 1 pack of cigarettes a day, you would
have spent $65,700. |
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Washington
Federal Square Building, 190 North Main Street, Suite 208, Washington,
PA 15301
Phone: 724-222-6511 Toll-Free: 1-866-904-FREE (3733) Fax: 724-222-6685
info@tobaccofreewashington.org |
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