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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">FYI…<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> State nutrition and physical activity forum for obesity [mailto:NUTR-PA-OBESITY-LIST@LISTSERV.CDC.GOV]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Anderson, Susan (CDC/ONDIEH/NCCDPHP)<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, March 15, 2012 7:17 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> NUTR-PA-OBESITY-LIST@LISTSERV.CDC.GOV<br>
<b>Subject:</b> FW: HHS and CDC Launch National Tobacco Education Ad Campaign<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Please pardon the cross posting.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Thought you would like to know about this launch today.</span><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> CDC OD Announcements
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<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, March 15, 2012 9:56 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> CDC All - CDC & ATSDR and non-CDC & non-ATSDR<br>
<b>Subject:</b> HHS and CDC Launch National Tobacco Education Ad Campaign<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">CDC is launching a hard-hitting national tobacco education ad campaign today, March 15. <span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and CDC announce the launch of the “Tips from Former Smokers Campaign,” a national tobacco education ad campaign featuring
 real people who suffer daily from smoking-related illness. <span style="color:#1F497D">
 </span>The event will take place today, from 12:30 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. EDT, at the Newseum, in Washington, D<span style="color:#1F497D">.</span>C. 
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">A webcast will be available at
</span><a href="http://www.hhs.gov/live"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">HHS Live Streaming</span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius; U.S. Surgeon General Regina Benjamin, M.D.; and CDC Director Thomas R. Frieden, M.D., M.P.H., will speak at the event.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">National Tobacco Education Campaign goals are to increase the awareness of the dangers of tobacco use and exposure to secondhand smoke and motivate smokers to quit.
<span style="color:#1F497D"> </span>The primary audience for this campaign is smokers, ages 18–54.
<span style="color:#1F497D"> </span>The campaign will include broadcast, print, radio, out-of-home (billboards, bus shelters, and movie theaters) and digital advertising.
<span style="color:#1F497D"> </span>This campaign features a variety of real people who have suffered from tobacco-related disease and continue to live with the effects.
<span style="color:#1F497D"> </span>To underscore the immediate damage that smoking can have on the body, the ads feature people who experienced smoking-related diseases at a relatively young age. 
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Watch for more information coming soon on
<b><i>CDC Connects</i></b>. <span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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