About

The Investing in Tobacco-Free Youth Coalition brings together a diverse group of organizations with a common goal of reducing the toll that tobacco takes on the people of Ohio. The Coalition is seeking to make “other tobacco products” – including spit tobacco, little cigars and cigars – less appealing to youth by correcting the inequity between the other tobacco products tax and the cigarette tax. The revenue generated would be used to fund the youth prevention and community tobacco prevention and cessation programs that were ended as a result of tobacco funding cuts.

Steering Committee

  • American Lung Association
  • American Heart Association
  • American Cancer Society
  • Academy of Medicine of Cleveland & Northern Ohio
  • Association of Ohio Health Commissioners
  • Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids
  • Children’s Defense Fund
  • Cleveland Clinic
  • OhioHealth
  • Ohio State Medical Association
  • Universal Healthcare Action Network (UHCAN) Ohio

Endorsers

  • Akron Community Health Resources
  • Allen County Health Partners
  • American College of Cardiology
  • Amethyst, Inc.
  • Asian Services in Action
  • Athens County Tobacco Prevention Coalition
  • Barberton Health District
  • Bucyrus Community Hospital
  • Caring About Bucyrus Students (CABS)
  • Center for Evidence Based Practices at Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland
  • Cleveland Department of Public Health
  • Columbus Public Health
  • Columbus Urban League
  • Community Action for Capable Youth, Mansfield
  • Cuyahoga County Board of Health
  • District 13 PTA, Akron
  • EHOVE Career Center (JVSD)
  • Fairfield County Combined General Health District
  • Family Guidance Center, Ironton
  • Fisher-Titus Medical Center
  • Galion City Health Department
  • Gallia County Tobacco Use Prevention Coalition
  • Greater Cleveland Health Education and Service Council, Inc.
  • Greene County Combined Health District
  • Hardin County Tobacco Prevention Coalition
  • Healthy Worthington Coalition
  • Holmes County Health District
  • Holzer Consolidated Health Systems, Gallipolis
  • Hospital Council of Northwest Ohio
  • Ignite National
  • Jackson County Tobacco Use Prevention Coalition
  • Lake County Health District
  • Lawrence County QUIT Coalition
  • Licking County Health Department
  • Lorain City Health Department
  • Lucas County Tobacco Prevention Coalition
  • Meigs Cooperative Parish U.M.C. (Faith Community Nursing)
  • Meigs County Tobacco Use Prevention Coalition
  • Mercy Hospital of Willard
  • Morgan Behavioral Health Choices, McConnelsville
  • Muskingum Valley Tobacco-Free Coalition
  • Nationwide
  • Northwest Ohio Strategic Alliance for Tobacco Control
  • Ohio Academy of Family Physicians
  • Ohio Association of School Nurses
  • Ohio Osteopathic Association
  • Ohio Public Health Association
  • Orrville YMCA
  • Perry County Health Department
  • Perry Wellness Coalition
  • Private Duty Services, Inc., VanWert
  • Rambo Memorial Health Center, Zanesville
  • St. Luke’s Hospital
  • Tobacco-Free Collaborative of Franklin County
  • Tobacco-Free Delaware County Coalition
  • Tobacco Free for Life
  • Your Human Resource Center, Wooster
  • Your Quest Personal Health Solutions, Worthington

 

Contact Information

For more information, please contact:

Shelly Kiser
Director of Advocacy
American Lung Association of Ohio
614-279-1700 or 800-232-5864
skiser@ohiolung.org		 Cresha Auck Foley
Ohio Advocacy Director, Great Rivers Affiliate
American Heart Association
614-396-4357
cresha.auck@heart.org