Even fifth graders smoke: examining tobacco use in rural communities
By Leah Wiggs, Director of Advocacy, American Lung Plains-Gulf RegionI would like to tell a story of a student I met many years ago in Southeast Missouri. This story is about a boy named Jason, a fifth...
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Yes on Prop B is the Right Choice for Missouri
By Jim Nunnelly, Board of Directors, Health Care Foundation of Greater Kansas CityMissourians pay for having the lowest tobacco tax in the country in so many ways. Missouri spends more than $2 billion...
View ArticleThe tools we need to break old habits, vote Yes on Prop B
By Melissa J. Robinson, MBA, President, Black Health Care CoalitionVoting Yes on Proposition B is Missouri’s chance to break old habits. Our state has never invested money into smoking cessation and...
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Without Proposition B, we must find other solutions to prevent tobacco use
By Norm Siegel, HCF Board of DirectorsBeing a parent comes with constant concerns about the environment our children grow up in. Parents worry about their children's education and making healthy...
View ArticleOur spirit will not be defeated
My granddaughter, Isabelle Lafaver, is about to celebrate her first birthday this Sunday. She accompanied her dad and grandpa to the polls on Nov. 6. Her dad, Jeremy LaFaver, was elected to the...
View ArticleClearing the way to clean air
By Traci Kennedy, Director of Tobacco Free MissouriResources:Tobaccoread more
View ArticleTruman Medical Centers working toward a healthier Kansas City
In the post below, Truman Medical Centers President/CEO John Bluford gives us a glimpse into how the hospital has carefully implemented a hiring policy based on tobacco usage, which was one of the 64...
View ArticleYouth advocates are crucial to success
By Alex Higginbotham, youth advocate for S.W.A.G.5,000,000… five million … 5 millionAny way you put it, that’s a big number. Try to picture 5 million people. (That’s all 32 professional football...
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Tobacco is still deadly, and we are still fighting for a tobacco-free future
By Brenda Calvin, HCF program officerIt’s been 50 years since we first learned that tobacco smoke is deadly. Since the release of the groundbreaking, 1964 Surgeon General’s report, we have further...
View ArticleWhat are we willing to do on their behalf?
By Bridget McCandless, President/CEO of the Health Care Foundation of Greater Kansas CityLet’s face it – the weather recently has certainly been a detriment to spending time outside. That is why it...
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