American Cancer Society Co-Facilitates Youth Advocacy Summit on Tobacco Control in Sweden

 
Students at the youth advocacy summit on tobacco control pose as part of the Number 6 campaign, which aims to remind the public that every 6 seconds one person dies in the world due to tobacco use.

 

The American Cancer Society co-facilitated a youth advocacy summit on tobacco control May 6-9 in Stockholm, Sweden, with SAMBA, a Swedish nongovernmental organization (NGO). The summit was part of a joint effort on the Dizza Tobak initiative, which encourages youth leaders to speak up on important tobacco prevention issues in their country, as they educate their peers and their political leaders. The training brought together 24 youth from different regions of Sweden and included various workshops and hands-on activities. It culminated with a public action in a busy central train station, where the students staged a "drop dead" event to bring attention to the 18 people who die every day in Sweden due to tobacco. American Cancer Society staff Johanna Ralston, vice president, Global Strategies, Global Health, and Sylvana Rochet-Belleri, international program manager, Global Health, served as facilitators during the event. Holly Aprea and Andy Berndt, consultants working with the American Cancer Society, provided participants their valuable youth advocacy expertise. This transatlantic collaboration is the second of its kind for the American Cancer Society, following a youth advocacy tobacco control initiative in North Africa that started in 2008.

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