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Tar Wars
As a part of the community medicine curriculum, residents and faculty are given the opportunity to go to fifth grade classrooms in local schools as part of the Tar Wars program. Tar Wars is a pro-health, tobacco education program and poster contest the ultimate goal of which is to discourage tobacco use among our nation's youth. Residents become teachers for one hour as they present this fun, image-based lesson, which focuses on the short-term effects of tobacco use, the reasons people use tobacco, and the images that tobacco companies use to market their products.
The Tar Wars program offers an opportunity for school personnel, health care providers, educators and community members to join together and address the issue of youth target marketing and youth access to tobacco. It also gives each resident valuable experience working with and educating children, while experiencing firsthand the excitement and enthusiastic participation of the fifth graders.
For more information, see
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