Enduring value. - The CHEST Foundation
Enduring value. - The CHEST Foundation
Enduring value. - The CHEST Foundation
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<strong>The</strong> <strong>CHEST</strong> <strong>Foundation</strong>’s Ambassadors Group<br />
<strong>The</strong> <strong>CHEST</strong> <strong>Foundation</strong>’s Ambassadors<br />
Group volunteers, networks, and<br />
educates on behalf of <strong>The</strong> <strong>Foundation</strong> to<br />
promote improved lung health in local<br />
communities and beyond. <strong>The</strong> group’s<br />
help and support significantly contribute<br />
to the good work of <strong>The</strong> <strong>Foundation</strong> year<br />
after year.<br />
Active in Schools With Lung LessonsSM Ambassadors Group members continue to actively<br />
present the Lung LessonsSM program in schools.<br />
This past year, Mangala Krishnamurthy presented<br />
to children in various grades at her local school<br />
in Alabama. Her niece, Nikhila Janakiram, a youth<br />
Ambassador, presented <strong>The</strong> <strong>CHEST</strong> <strong>Foundation</strong>’s<br />
tobacco prevention educational program to<br />
elementary schoolchildren in her neighborhood<br />
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school and at a library in Saratoga, CA. Kathy Wilder<br />
taught the basics of Lung Lessons SM to school<br />
nurses in several schools in Anchorage, and now<br />
the nurses present the program to students on an<br />
annual basis. In a closely related project, for the<br />
past 4 years, Monir Almassi has successfully organized<br />
walk/runs at three Wisconsin area schools to<br />
follow up her Lung Lessons SM presentations.<br />
Supporting the AMA Alliance Screen-Out!<br />
Program<br />
<strong>The</strong> Ambassadors Group is actively supporting the<br />
AMA Alliance Screen-Out! Program. <strong>The</strong> Alliance<br />
Screen Out! Campaign, guided by research and<br />
evidence that supports a causal link between<br />
movie smoking and teen smoking initiation, is<br />
working to change the Motion Picture Association<br />
of America’s rating system so that new movies<br />
showing smoking or tobacco use will be rated “R.”<br />
Mary Anne McCaffree, MD, FCCP, gave a presentation<br />
to the Ambassadors Group at its business<br />
meeting in March. Members agreed to support<br />
the AMA Alliance program by sharing <strong>Foundation</strong><br />
tobacco prevention educational products with the<br />
AMA Alliance. Moving forward, the Ambassadors<br />
Group will welcome opportunities and projects to<br />
support efforts to rid the nation of tobacco promotion<br />
that lures children into a lifetime of tobacco<br />
addiction.<br />
<strong>Enduring</strong> <strong>value</strong>.
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