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Jump to full article: Vancouver (WA) Columbian, 2003-10-06
Author: TOM VOGT, Columbian staff writer
Intro: A Vancouver health education group has received a $92,780 grant to help prevent college freshmen from becoming rookie smokers.
The grant to Innovative Medical Education Consortium (IMEC) comes from the American Legacy Foundation, which distributed $435,000 to six organizations.
The nonprofit IMEC will use the money to fight smoking at five Eastern colleges: Alfred (N.Y.) State; Florida State University, Tallahassee; Green Mountain College, Poultney, Va.; Loyola College, Baltimore; and Worchester (Mass.) Polytechnic Institute.
Jo An Loren, IMEC managing director, said the project will focus on nonsmokers who pick up the habit as college freshmen.
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