[Headlines Only] [Top Stories Only]
Categories
· Teen Smoking/Youth
· Tobacco Control
· Schools
· People
USA, by State
· Arkansas

Cancer survivors talk about harmful effects of smoking 

Jump to full article: Northwest Arkansas Times, 2002-12-30
Author: Lynn Atkins / Staff Writer

Intro:

A spokeswoman for Drug Free Rogers-Lowell's new tobacco prevention program gave a coalition members a first-hand account of the dangers of cigarette smoking Dec. 18.

Joy Ewalt spoke to the coalition with the aid of a artificial voice box.

Ewalt lost her own larynx to cancer in 1998. Now she volunteers with Northwest Arkansas Radiation Therapy Institute and travels to schools and meetings to talk about the effects of tobacco. . .

The Drug Free Rogers-Lowell Tobacco Prevention Coalition is a grass roots organization that gives individuals a role in the fight against tobacco.

Jump to full article »