JSU awarded Health Leadership Award for establishing a tobacco-free campus
By Kyle Kidd Jackson State University recently received the 2022 âTobacco Control Health Leadership Award from the Arizonans Concerned About Smoking, Arizona NAACP, and the U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Officers Association during the U.S. Public Health Service Symposium. This award recognizes JSUâs role model tobacco-free campus policy in which tobacco product is defined as any substance containing tobacco leaf, including but not limited to cigarettes, cigars, pipe tobacco, hookah tobacco, snuff, chewing tobacco, dipping tobacco, bidis, blunts, clove cigarettes, or any other preparation of tobacco products. Henry Thompson, project director of the Metro Jackson Community Prevention Coalition, was excited to