Minister Regan announces $38,000 to smoking cessation programs in Halifax

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2005-120
November 9, 2005
For immediate release
HALIFAX - Health Canada will contribute $30,515 to the Halifax YWCA and $7,525
to Dalhousie University's Health Education Office to establish comprehensive smoking cessation programs
targeting expectant and young mothers, and university students. The announcement was made today by
the Minister of Fisheries and Oceans and Member of Parliament for Halifax West Geoff Regan, on behalf
of Health Minister Ujjal Dosanjh.
"Initiatives such as these demonstrate the Government of Canada's continued commitment to protecting
Nova Scotians from the harm associated with tobacco," said Minister Regan. "Given that two Canadian
teenagers start smoking every 10 minutes, investing in smoking cessation services will help improve
our province's overall public health."
The Halifax YWCA will partner with Capital Health's Addiction Prevention and Treatment Services
and the Spryfield Single Parent Centre to offer the Take a Breath Smoking Cessation Program, to be
piloted at the Dartmouth Family Resource Centre. This funding from today's announcement will be used
to develop a smoking cessation program specifically designed to meet the needs of expectant and young
mothers. The goal of the project is to reduce tobacco use among this population and to help limit
second-hand smoke exposure to family members.
Another smoking cessation project led by Dalhousie University's Health Education Office, Leave the
Pack Behind, will be designed to support students in their efforts to be tobacco free. Partnering
on this project are the Nova Scotia Tobacco Control Unit, Capital Health and the Coalition for a
Smoke-Free Nova Scotia. The project is expected to help reshape university communities throughout
Nova Scotia so that tobacco products and their use are no longer seen as a norm. As a result, the
Leave the Pack Behind project will generate self-sustaining tobacco control initiatives that can
be effectively modelled at other post-secondary institutions with the hope that fewer young people
across the province will begin smoking and fewer still will be exposed to second-hand smoke.
Funding for today's announcement comes from the Tobacco Control Programme, an initiative of Health
Canada's Healthy Environments and Consumer Safety Branch. Health Canada's Tobacco Control Programme
regulates tobacco and promotes initiatives that reduce or prevent the harm
associated with smoking.
For information on how to make your home smoke-free or resources on how to quit smoking, go to www.GoSmokeFree.ca or
call 1-800 O-Canada.
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Media inquiries
Sujata Rasisinghani
Office of the Honourable Geoff Regan
Minister of Fisheries and Oceans
(613) 992-3474
Eleanor Cameron
Communications Officer
Health Canada Atlantic Region
(902) 426-7124

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