By contacting our lawmakers through legislative visits, attending lobby days, sending e-mails, and your phone calls, we can achieve our goals and make Missouri a healthier place to live. If you haven't already, please sign up for You're The Cure!
How Heart Disease and Stroke Touch All Americans
| BLOG With Us in Missouri! Across the Midwest Affiliate, we engage advocates on our state blogs. Each blog provides an exclusive, current information source for You’re the Cure advocates and others who want to join the American Heart Association and the American Stroke Association in the fight against heart disease and stroke. Keep up-to-date on state policy issues, check out what is going on in the media and let us know what you are doing as a You’re the Cure advocate! Visit heartofmissouri.blogspot.com |
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Join our page “You’re the Cure: Midwest Clicks for Hearts” at Smoke Free Missouri - Show-Me a Brighter Future
As more communities pass smoke-free workplace laws, smoke-free coalitions are starting to form in cities near you. Each day more and more findings are showing that secondhand smoke is deadly. Show-Me A Brighter Future is a diverse coalition of Missouri organizations and individuals, including the American Heart Association and other educational and health organizations and has proposed a statewide petition initiative that will help address Missouri’s health, smoking and school funding problems through a $.73 tax increase per pack of cigarettes and increased taxes on other tobacco products. Increasing the price of tobacco products is a proven way to decrease smoking rates and will generate an additional $283 million annually in new revenue for Missouri schools and to fund smoking prevention programs.
Look for more information in the very near future about our plans to formally launch the campaign. In the meantime, you can help in the following ways:
- Please visit our campaign online and sign up at www.showmeabrighterfuture.com
- Contact your local city council and urge them to take action to protect the citizens in their community by passing a clean indoor air ordinance.
- Get involved with a local clean indoor air coalition.
- Write letters to your local newspaper about the benefits of being smoke-free and for businesses to go smoke-free.
- Contact your American Heart Association to find out what’s going on in your area.
- Websites that offer clean air news and opportunities for the community to get involved are listed below:
| Tobacco Free Missouri Breathe Easy Missouri | Smoke Free St. Louis Smoke Free Jefferson City Smoke Free Joplin Springfield One Air Alliance Clean Air Kansas City |
Springfield June 2012
Thanks for Voting "No" on repeal of Springfield's smoke-free ordinance. Our community has a strong commitment to public health and to preserving a safe workplace for all Springfield employees.
Missouri Stroke Month / American Stroke Month May 2012
American Heart Association volunteers visited the State Capitol on May 1, 2012 to receive Resolutions in recognition of American Stroke Month and Missouri Stroke Month.
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| Rep. Rory Ellinger, Rep. Sharon Pace, Linda Love-Tolbert, Rep. Jill Schupp, Dr. Arthur Visor, Caroline Moore, Rep. Clem Smith and Sandii Handrick | Caroline Moore, Rep. Chris Carter, Sandii Handrick and Linda Love-Tolbert | Sandii Handrick, Caroline Moore, Sen. John Lamping, Linda Love-Tolbert and Dr. Arthur Visor | Dr. Arthur Visor, Caroline Moore, Sen. Robin Wright-Jones, Sandii Handrick and Linda Love-Tolbert |
For more information about advocacy in Missouri, please contact:
| Jace Smith Director of State Advocacy, Missouri 913-652-1993 | Christy Dreiling Regional Grassroots Advocacy Director - Iowa, Kansas, and Missouri (913) 652-1918 |
