Campaign to butt out
Posted October 22, 2010 7:14 am.
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VANCOUVER (NEWS1130) – There was plenty of free coffee, but no cigarettes in downtown Vancouver this morning. QuitNow and the BC Lung Association kicked off a campaign at the Vancouver Art Gallery to urge people to quit smoking.
They poured free java while handing out advice on ditching cigarettes. There was also a little gentle badgering, with placards reading “Taste your food” and “Have an indoor coffee break.”
Lung Association staff suggest 70 percent of BC’s 500,000 smokers want to quit in the next 12 months. QuitNow is bringing back an online contest that helped 5,500 people quit last year.
