Who are we?
Nightingales Nurses - read about some of our members
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Our Goals
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Real tobacco company social responsibility,
demonstrated by voluntary industry commitments to end
all active marketing and promotion of products they
themselves now admit addict and kill their best
customers. Voluntarily ending active marketing would
leave the industry's first amendment rights protected
while demonstrating genuine social commitment. There are
other businesses to build that don't kill people!
Find out more about our
campaign to end tobacco marketing.
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100% smokefree workplaces for employees everywhere,
beginning at the local level and including bars and
restaurants. Nobody should have to breathe Class A
carcinogens to earn an honest living. HELP with getting
smokefree policies in YOUR town: Americans for
Nonsmokers' Rights,
www.no-smoke.org
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Institutional retirement plan divestment from tobacco
stock ownership. No nurse should have to rely on tobacco
company profits for a secure retirement and it is a
conflict of interest for hospitals, health plans, and
public entities to supply capital in any form to an
industry that kills 440,000 Americans every year. These
bodies have a commitment to the welfare of their
retirees. HELP your institution or pension plan break
its tobacco habit through divestment.
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Full coverage for tobacco cessation treatment
programs as part of every health insurance plan, with
publicly funded coverage for the uninsured. Every person
who wants to quit tobacco, including nurses, should be
able to access effective help to do so. HELP: Tobacco
Free Nurses,
www.tobaccofreenurses.org
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Divestment of tobacco stock ownership by academic
medical centers and their parent institutions. Care
services and education of clinicians should not depend
financially on the continued success of the tobacco
industry in marketing disease and death.
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Policies against acceptance of tobacco industry
funding for health research and programs. Acceptance of
such funding legitimizes the industry and helps
perpetuate the industry-promoted myth that we still
don't really understand the links between smoking and
disease.
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R Rating for tobacco use in movies. Most smokers
start using cigarettes as teens, and studies show that
kids who view smoking in movies are more likely to take
up smoking. For information about how you can help, go
to www.smokefreemovies.ucsf.edu
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Restoration of full funding levels for comprehensive
state tobacco control programs, which have been shown to
be effective in reducing tobacco use and changing norms
about tobacco. Contact your local smokefree coalition,
American Lung
Association chapter, American Cancer Society,
American Heart
Association or other groups working for tobacco
control and ask how you can help.