Creating Change in Your Community

A toolkit to help you create tobacco prevention policies in your neighborhood.

Creating Change in Your Community Creating Change in Your Community

Healthcare Cost and Productivity

A new Employers Toolkit a step-by-step guide to assist you in creating a tobacco-free workforce. It helps you to define how much tobacco use costs your business and your return-on-investment when a quit smoking program is promoted.

Healthcare Cost and Productivity Healthcare Cost and Productivity

Smoke Free Homes

Make your condominium, apartment, or townhouse smoke-free! Its legal, safer, and cost-efficient.

Smoke Free Homes Smoke Free Homes

Support the Cause

The Coalition needs your support. Sustainability is critical to our mission and ability to continue to work for a tobacco-free Hawaii. You can help by joining as a member, making a donation, or participating in one of several fundraising options.

Support the Cause Support the Cause

Initiatives

Homes

Homes
The Coalition for a Tobacco-Free Hawaii, the Hawaii State Department of Health, and other community partners, are working together to create healthier and safer communities by reducing secondhand smoke exposure in condominiums, apartments, and town-homes in Hawaii.

Smoke-Free Presentation by National expert Jim Bergman airing on Olelo. Dates are highlighted on our calendar starting with May 27.

Business

Business
With the support of the HMSA Foundation, the Coalition has worked with the business community to develop a toolkit to assist businesses in creating a tobacco-free workforce.


Communities

Communities
The Social Norms Toolkit was created as a means to positively affect socially accepted behavior around the issues of smoking and second-hand smoke. The key premise of this toolkit is to assist with creating social environments that support, promote and reinforce healthy behavior choices. This goal goes far beyond just tobacco control efforts, and can be applied to almost any public health focus.



What You Need To Know

State Laws



Maui County Law

Hawai'i County Law

Honolulu City and County Law

Kaua'i County Law

Take Action

Thank Lawmakers for Keeping Tobacco Prevention Strong

Thank Lawmakers for Keeping Tobacco Prevention Strong
We wanted to let our lawmakers know how you felt so in today's Honolulu Advertiser is an ad that shares some of your comments from our petition. Please click on the link below to ask lawmakers to sustain funding for tobacco prevention.

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Thank Lawmakers for Keeping Tobacco Prevention Strong

Sign Our Petition Today to Save Funding

Be An Advocate

You Can Help!

You Can Help!
You can help our children say No to tobacco and help our families and friends quit smoking.

Last year the state legislature cut funding for tobacco prevention and quit smoking programs by half. Don’t let them take away tobacco prevention this year.

Two recent polls reveal overwhelming public support

Continued Funding of Tobacco Programs.

Increase in Cigarette Tax.



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