Take Action!
HELP SMOKERS QUIT
Nightingales Nurses RN2Q1 Campaign. Download a
flyer.
Our goal: every year every nurse will help at least one
person to quit tobacco.
JOIN US TO PROTEST at Big Tobacco
shareholder meetings. Tell Big Tobacco how many people you helped to quit, how
many cigarettes were NOT smoked, and how much money the industry did NOT make as
a result of your helping people to quit.
2011 was the Nightingales' 8th consecutive year of speaking
out at Big Tobacco's shareholder meetings. Philip Morris International
CEO claimed that
it isn't hard to quit smoking in reply to the Nightingale nurse.
Read about attending the
2010 Philip Morris International shareholder meeting protest
A Nightingales Visit With Big Tobacco - read Janice Ross's account of
protesting at Reynolds American International shareholder meeting in 2009.
Comments from Nightingales Nurses
PROTEST TO STOP TOBACCO ADVERTISING IN WOMEN'S
MAGAZINES. If you see a tobacco advertisement write to the
magazine and ask them to stop promoting a product that kills half of all its
users.
Glamour magazine claims to be deeply commited to women's wellbeing, yet it
contains tobacco advertisements. Please join the Nightingales nurses and
BOYCOTT GLAMOUR, until they stop advertising tobacco.
CONDUCT A PUBLIC READING of letters from
the industry's secret files, all sent to tobacco companies from dying customers
and their grieving families. These letters provide powerful testimony from
smokers themselves to build support for strong tobacco control policies and
bring pressure on the tobacco industry.
See
letters and
secret documents.
Please
follow this link to download the "Voices of Americans"PowerPoint slide show
and talking points (important: click and hold, then 'save to disk').
BUY A SHARE of tobacco company stock and
WRITE A SHAREHOLDER LETTER to the company as a concerned shareholder. For a
low-cost way to buy one share, see
www.sharebuilder.com, contact your stockbroker, or contact us. Please let us
know if you buy a share. See
sample shareholder letter.
SEND A LETTER TO BIG TOBACCO as a member of
the public, tell them what real social responsibility means. See
sample letter.
SEND A LETTER TO YOUR NEWSPAPER. If you see
a story about tobacco, or hear about Altria funding some good cause, write a
letter and challenge the company to demonstrate genuine social responsibility by
ending marketing of these deadly products. Use our sample letter and add your
own perspective and reference to a local story or event. Keep it short and pithy
for the best chance of publication. Please let us know if you have a letter
published .
See sample letter.
ENCOURAGE YOUR PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATION to
endorse the Nightingales Campaign.
ENCOURAGE ORGANIZATIONS TO CONSIDER THE TRUE COST OF
ACCEPTING FUNDING FROM TOBACCO COMPANIES If you are a member of a group
considering acceptance of such a contribution, you can highlight the ways this
buys legitimacy for the industry—and often silence—on tobacco issues from the
groups who become hooked on tobacco money.