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Sandwich Community Health Centre Gets a Toxic Tunnel

lhinconnection | 21 September, 2009 09:30

The SCHC received funding to purchase a Toxic Tunnel from the Trillium Foundation.  The Toxic Tunnel is an inflatable cigarette 24’ x 10’ x 10’.  The Toxic Tunnel allows children to enter into one end of the cigarette and experience interactive non-smoking and healthy life styles education modalities. 

SCHC is the only organization in Ontario with a Toxic Tunnel.  Why is it important? More Essex adults reported starting smoking earlier; more Essex residents are current smokers and more Essex residents are exposed to second hand smoke at home and in vehicles than other residents in the province of Ontario.  Local agencies need to emphasize the need to stop smoking, more so here in Essex County than in other areas of the province.  

Lynda A. Monik
Executive Director
Sandwich Community Health Centre Inc.
http://www.sandwichchc.org/

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