In an effort to reduce the harm caused by youth tobacco use and change community attitudes, the has launched a comprehensive, school-based tobacco intervention program for intermediate and high school students in the Toms River Regional School District and the Keansburg School District– TIPS.
This innovative program includes, but is not limited to:
- In-school Intervention
- Referral to Treatment
- Self-referral for Students, Faculty & Parents
Illegal drugs get the headlines, but nicotine is just as addictive.
You wouldn’t drink rocket fuel or eat rat poison, would you? A cigarette contains over 4,000 chemicals – most of which are just as toxic.
Second-hand smoke kills over 50,000 people a year. Thinking about a cigarette? Think about your friends and family first.
Ever carry a 20lb oxygen tank around? Go through chemotherapy? Keep smoking and you will.
Last year, over 450,000 people died from smokingrelated illnesses. In fact, smoking causes more deaths per year than AIDS, alcohol/drug abuse, fires, car accidents, suicides and murder combined.
Pointing out the obvious.
You know what smoking does to your health and appearance. Well, so does everyone else.
There are plenty of scientific reasons why tobacco makes your breath smell bad. But if you smoke, no one wants you to tell us what they are.
What’s attractive about wrinkles, dry skin or a cut that won’t heal? Nothing.
Spike it, curl it, gel it, spray it – just don’t ask anyone to smell it.
Chemicals from cigarettes stick to your teeth, turning them a deep shade of yellow. If you smoke, no yearbook photo for you...please.
Need a smoke. Where is my shirt? Need a smoke. I know I put my keys somewhere. Need a smoke. Get the drift?
Wet dog. Old carpet. Sink full of dishes. Mildew. All the latest clothing lines created by cigarettes.
- Saint Barnabas Behavioral Health Network’s Institute for Prevention
- The Alcoholism and Drug Abuse Council of Ocean - Ocean County Communities Against Tobacco Coalition (CAT) and Reaching Everyone By Exposing Lies (REBEL) Youth Corps
- American Cancer Society
- Dover Township Police Department
- Ocean County Board of Health
- Saint Barnabas Behavioral Health Network “Quitcenter”
- Toms River Regional School District
- Saint Barnabas Behavioral Health Network's Institute for Prevention
- Keansburg School District
- Keansburg Alliance for the Prevention of Drug and Alcohol Abuse (KASA)
- Saint Barnabas Behavioral Health Network "Quit Center"
- Keansburg Fire Marshall
Helene Long
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