Teens Against Tobacco forms in Lynn

The Daily ItemLYNN – Girls Inc. of Lynn obtained funding from Heath Resources in Action in Boston, to create a tobacco prevention program.The program is called “Teens Against Tobacco”, also known as T.A.T, and consists of 12 supportive members and four peer leaders who conduct the activities of the program. In addition, T.A.T has become a chapter of the 84 Movement, and joined their efforts to promote young people from Massachusetts to live positive tobacco-free lives.As part of their tasks, the T.A.T prevention group has been visiting establishments that sell tobacco products in Lynn, and completing surveys in which they look for types of tobacco products available, the incentives being offered, types of advertisements and the population to which these advertisements and incentives are targeting. Furthermore, T.A.T celebrated “Great American Smokeout Day” by running a campaign after school to educate more teens on the horrifying facts of tobacco consumption in hopes to minimize teens’ tobacco use.Girls Inc. of Lynn and this group of talented young woman will continue to work with the 84 movement and other organizations in hopes to improve neighborhoods in the city of Lynn and other parts of the state. It is the hope that Girls Inc. and their new prevention program T.A.T will generate a positive change among communities in Massachusetts.For the past three and a half months Santiago Carvallo, a student at Umass Boston has been interning with Girls Inc. of Lynn and has overseen the project thus far.For more information about T.A.T, contact Cassandra Haughton, [email protected] or 781-592-9744 x211.