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4/21/03

GRANT AWARDED TO SLU FOR PROGRAM TO FIGHT TOBACCO USE

CANTON - St. Lawrence University has been awarded a grant to form 
and recruit members of a Student Coalition Against Tobacco (SCAT).
	The "mini-grant" of $500 was awarded by the Task Force for 
Tobacco-Free Women & Girls, of the Roswell Park Cancer Institute 
in Buffalo, to the St. Lawrence Alcohol Initiative, and its Peers 
Educating Peers (PEP) organization. With the assistance of the 
grant, members of PEP will be used to recruit members for a SCAT 
group, pursue recognition of the group as an official student 
organization and fund a planning retreat to set long- and 
short-term goals for the 2003-2004 academic year.
	St. Lawrence's Alcohol Initiative is a project aimed at 
reducing high-risk alcohol use by students. According to Associate 
Director of Counseling Services Jen Weier-O'Phinney, who will 
coordinate the PEP/SCAT project, "Our work in this area has made 
it clear that tobacco use among college students is a growing 
concern, and that tobacco use and alcohol use often go hand-in-hand."
	The Task Force for Tobacco Free Women and Girls supports 
a comprehensive college campus cessation and education program 
to help college-based health educators implement quality cessation 
services on New York's campuses. It is also developing teen-tested 
and creative teaching tools to help high school and college girls 
counter the powerful messages of beauty, success and popularity in 
tobacco advertisement which target women and girls. The task force
was formed in 1993 by the Commission for a Healthy New York to 
advise the Commission on strategies to eliminate tobacco use among 
women and girls.

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