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The Health Unit
promotes Tobacco Use Prevention through the following
services:
1.
Consumer Information - call the Health Info Line (613) 735-8666 or
1-800-267-1097 for information about smoking and smoking cessation
programs. Also, check out the Tobacco
fact sheets, pamphlets and recommended links in the Health
Info section of this website.
2.
Smoking Cessation support - offered to individuals and groups
in Renfrew County and District.
3.
Event Organizing - together with our community partners, we
work to organize events such as health fairs.
4.
Coalition support - The health unit helped to initiate and
continues to provide support to the Coalition for a Tobacco-free
Renfrew County.
5.
Media campaigns - Tobacco information is presented on a
regular basis through the Health Unit's newspaper column "Health
for All", media interviews, feature articles and campaigns
such as National Non-Smoking week, and World No Tobacco Day.
