On Wednesday, June 13, Dayton AAYAT Interns, David Zhou, Vidya Gogineni, and Mary Woo traveled to Columbus with members of Greene County stand to talk with their local state senators about the importance of continuing to fund tobacco prevention and cessation programming in Ohio. During the previous day, the Ohio Senate Finance committee voted to pass the Governor’s budget proposal to securitize all funding set aside for Ohio through the Master Settlement Agreement of 1998, when 46 states sued the tobacco industry for public health damages. In the governor’s budget, additional money will not be set aside to continue current tobacco prevention and cessation funding in Ohio for programs like AAYAT, stand, and the Ohio Tobacco Quit Line.  Check out the pictures from their visit below!

Pictures by: Mary Woo

On Saturday, May 26, 2007, members of Columbus AAYAT hosted an information booth and skit performances at the 13th Annual Asian Festival at Franklin Park. During the event, they were able to get a photo and talk briefly with Ohio Governor, Ted Strickland, during his visit to the event. Check out the photos below….way to go Columbus!

Congratulations to Jolie Yang of Dayton AAYAT who was selected as the 2007 International Youth Advocate of the Year by Campaign for Tobacco Free Kids. Jolie was honored for her tobacco advocacy achievments at the National Awards Gala on May 3, 2007. Check out Jolie’s pictures below.

Check out the latest issue of the AAYAT newsletter, “Around the State”. Features in this issue include:

• Jolie Yang, 2007 International Youth Advocate of the Year
• The 5th Annual AAYAT Leadership Summit
• Highlights from Kick Butts Day - March 28, 2007
• Tackling FDA Regulation of Big Tobacco

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Our past newsletters can be found here.

On November 18, the Dayton AAYAT team hosted an afternoon of tobacco prevention education and activities at LaserQuest in Centerville. Middle school youth from the Asian Indian community and others were invited to participate in the Stay Tobacco Free Athlete Mentor Program (STAMP) taught by AAYAT youth interns. STAMP teaches youth about tobacco harmful health effects through role play, educational games, and peer discussion. Read the rest of this entry »