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visit the american legacy's foundation, the truth or the truth initiative, then use the ecological model of health behavior to design a community program to discourage smoking among teenagers.
Mission:
To reduce tobacco use in the United States with major initiatives
reaching youth, women, and priority populations through grant
awards, research initiatives, marketing campaigns, training
programs, and collaboration with national and local partners.
Purpose of Site:
The site provides information on the foundation's background,
programs and initiatives, and media campaigns. It also provides
guidelines for grantseekers working to reduce tobacco use, facts on
the dangers of smoking, tips for quitting smoking, and Legacy
events and publications.
Background:
The foundation was established in March 1999 as a result of the
Master Settlement Agreement between a coalition of attorneys
general in forty-six states and five U.S. territories and the
tobacco industry. The organization, which is funded primarily by
payments designated by the settlement, has four main goals:
reducing youth tobacco use, decreasing exposure to second-hand
smoke, increasing successful quit rates, and reducing disparities
in access to prevention and cessation services and in exposure to
secondhand smoke.
Home Page:
The most prominent feature on the foundation's home page is a photo
of a woman who was featured in a Legacy campaign and recently died
after a long battle with cancer caused by smoking for forty-two
years. In addition to information about Linda Costigan, the page
includes the foundation's mission and a toolbar with links to the
main areas of the site — About Legacy, Programs & Initiatives,
Get Involved, Press Room, and Donate.
Outstanding Feature:
The site's Press Room educates the public on the dangers of tobacco
use by providing the latest news from Legacy and the truth youth
anti-smoking campaign, as well as general information about
tobacco. The press section also includes fact sheets about smoking;
a resource gallery with campaign logos, legal documents,
print/broadcast advertisement campaigns, and audio/visual
resources; and Legacy's publications.
Truth Initiative (formerly the American Legacy Foundation or Legacy)[1][2] is a nonprofit tobacco control organization "dedicated to achieving a culture where all youth and young adults reject tobacco."[3] It was established in March 1999 as a result of the Master Settlement Agreement between the attorneys general of 46 states, the District of Columbia and five United States territories, and the tobacco industry.[4] Truth Initiative is best known for its youth smoking prevention campaign.[5][6][7] Its other primary aims include conducting tobacco control research and policy studies, organizing community and youth engagement programs and developing digital cessation and prevention products, including through revenue-generating models.[8] The organization changed its name from the American Legacy Foundation to Truth Initiative on September 8, 2015, to better align with its Truth campaign.[9] As of 2016, the organization had more than $957 million in assets[10] and a staff of 133 based primarily in its Washington, D.C. office.
History[edit]
Truth Initiative was founded in 1999 as a result of the Master Settlement Agreement (MSA). The MSA was announced in 1998, resolving the lawsuits brought by 46 U.S. states, the District of Columbia and five territories against the major U.S. cigarette companies, to recover state Medicaid and other costs from caring for sick smokers. The four other states settled separately. The tobacco industry agreed to pay the states billions of dollars in perpetuity, making the MSA the then-largest civil litigation settlement in U.S. history. The states directed that a portion of the money they received from the settlement should be used to establish a national public health foundation dedicated to prevent youth smoking and helping smokers quit: the American Legacy Foundation, now Truth Initiative.[11]
In 2018, the Truth Initiative partnered with Office of National Drug Control Policy and the Ad Council to combat opioid addiction.[12][13]
Activities[edit]
Truth Campaign[edit]
Main article: Truth (anti-tobacco campaign)
Truth Initiative's signature program is its Truth campaign, a youth smoking prevention mass media public education program that has been widely credited with contributing to a significant drop in teen smoking.[14] In 2000, 23% of American 8th, 10th and 12th graders smoked. As of 2016, that figure was 6%.[15] The campaign exposes tobacco industry practices as well as the health effects and social consequences of smoking.[16]
Truth Initiative Schroeder Institute[edit]
Researchers in the Truth Initiative Schroeder Institute publish dozens of peer-reviewed research articles each year with the goal of identifying methods to minimize the harms of tobacco use, measure the effectiveness of interventions and identify best practices for tobacco control.[17] Research is also done to assess the Truth campaign's efforts, both pre-and post-market, including the use of the longitudinal Truth Longitudinal Cohort (TLC) survey of more than 10,000 young people and a continuous tracking study to assess campaign awareness and message receptivity.[18]
In the early 2000s the American Legacy Foundation (as the Truth Initiative was then known) gave around $10 million of the settlement funds it managed to the University of California San Francisco (USCF) to help it formalize and expand the collection of internal tobacco industry documents that its library already hosted; the collection was then named the Legacy Tobacco Documents Library.[19][20] As of May 2017, the library contained 14.7 million internal documents (nearly 89 million pages) created by major tobacco companies related to their advertising, manufacturing, marketing, sales and scientific research activities.
Community and Youth Engagement
Truth Initiative provides individuals, coalitions, and organizations information and methods to reduce tobacco use in their communities. The organization trains and educates young people interested in tobacco control and partners with community-serving organizations to reduce tobacco use. This includes a grant program for community colleges and historically black colleges and universities to create tobacco-free campuses.
Examples of youth activism programs include:
These community engagement programs are often an "on the ground" extension of the Truth campaign's work. Supporters of the campaign are called upon to support other anti-tobacco issues, such as a 2017 rally outside a Walgreens shareholders meeting in New York that was organized to pressure the pharmacy's board of directors to stop selling tobacco in its stores.
BecomeAnEx is a program that was created in 2008; it is a free, online community and set of resources for individuals who want to quit smoking.
Innovations
The innovations center within Truth Initiative designs, builds and markets digital smoking cessation and prevention products that are centered around online social networks, text messaging and web and mobile applications. Any revenue generated by the innovations programs helps support other work at the organization.
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