The Tobacco Free Periodicals Project

Endorsement Form for Organizations
Advertisements from tobacco companies in magazines and other periodicals undermine tobacco cessation and prevention efforts, promote addiction to deadly products, and support the tobacco industry's public relations goals and political strategies. Publishers of periodicals should decline to carry ads for tobacco products, tobacco industry public relations ads and the companies' self-serving "anti-youth-smoking" ads. Periodicals that carry any of these ads are particularly inappropriate in healthcare settings and should not be displayed in the public or patient-care areas of the offices of health professionals or health institutions. 

The regularly updated list of periodicals maintained by Smoke Free Maryland (in MedChi) and posted at www.tobaccofreeperiodicals.org will serve as a guide. (Tobacco industry public relations advertisements such as "Philip Morris Doesn't Think Kids Should Smoke" etc., are considered as tobacco industry advertisements for this purpose regardless of whether or not they promote a tobacco product).

Return to the Project's home page. 

Read a current list of tobacco-free periodicals project endorsers.
An updated list of hundreds of popular magazines without  tobacco company ads is available here.  

Another list of periodicals that include these ads is here.

Please answer the questions below and provide the following contact information:

1. Our organization endorses the statement above and agrees to have our name listed on letters to publishers urging them not to carry ads from tobacco companies in periodicals. We also agree to have our name listed on letters to health institutions urging them not to display periodicals that carry these ads: 
    Yes  No
2. Our organization will take all available steps to remove periodicals that carry tobacco company ads from waiting rooms or public areas: 
    Yes  No  ( N/A I do not determine periodical selection.)
3. Our organization will contact magazines that carry ads from tobacco companies to let them know why we are canceling any subscriptions at our professional facilities, and are no longer displaying them in our facilities and urge them to stop carrying any ads from tobacco companies:
    Yes  No
4. Our organization agrees to be listed by name and location as endorsing this project on its web page:
    Yes  No

Date
Organization's Name
Is this a health or medical organization? Yes  No
Web Address
Street Address
Address (cont.)
City
State/Province
Zip/Postal Code
Maryland County 
 or Other County 
What is your organization's jurisdiction?  International  National   State  
  County/City
Country
Organization's Phone
FAX
Contact's Name
Contact's Title 
Contact's Phone
Contact's Fax
Contact's E-mail

Please type any comments below.

Your contact information will NOT be provided to any organizations other than those administering this strategy to eliminate magazines with tobacco industry ads from health facilities and periodicals.

This is a project of The Campaign For Tobacco Free Kids  (www.tobaccofreekids.org) and  MedChi, The Maryland State Medical Society  (www.medchi.org) and Smoke Free Baltimore County (www.smokefreebc.org), which initiated and maintains this project.


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