Protecting Our Future, Advocating For Tobacco-Free Youth
NOVEMBER 6, 2015  @  ST. MARK BAPTIST CHURCH
A Powerful, One-Day Symposium

With the theme Protecting Our Future, Advocating For Tobacco-Free Youth, this powerful, one-day symposium is relevant to a broad audience ranging from healthcare providers, to youth and also to community advocates.

Legislation and Tobacco Control

Gustavo Torrez   will review Arkansas' challenges and victories in creating comprehensive tobacco-free environments and will discuss lessons learned from states around the country including:
The City of New Orleans and their recent legislative win; Mississippi's multiple city ordinances; how Hawaii increased the age limit on tobacco sales to 21 years, and others.
 
Gustavo Torrez has been involved in the tobacco control movement for the past 19 years. He began his work in tobacco control as a youth advocate in California and continued his career in the field in Boston, where he was a Program Manager with Fenway Community Health and the National Network for LGBT Health Equity, one of the CDC-funded priority population networks. 

 As a young adult Gustavo served on Legacy's National Speaker's Bureau and National Activism Council, and in 2012 he was recognized for his efforts with a Trailblazers Award for outstanding and continuous leadership in the tobacco control movement by Legacy. Currently, Gustavo is the Associate Director of Youth Advocacy for the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids.  
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