The Tobacco Alliance integrates the cultural concepts of
Inupiaq Iliqusiat
Inupiaq values, taught by elders:
Sharing
Knowledge of language
Knowledge of family heritage
Respect for others
Respect of elders
Love for children
Cooperation
Hard work
Humility
Conflict avoidance
Family roles
Hunter success
Responsibility to tribe
Humor
Domestic Skills
Nome Community Center continues its anti-tobacco campaign, which began in 2006. The purpose of this program was to support and encourage tobacco cessation, smoke-free businesses and restaurants, youth tobacco education. One of its long-term goals is creating a policy for smoke-free homes and autos in Nome.
In October 2007 all of Nome’s restaurants willingly became smoke-free. There are also four smoke-free businesses: Being Straits Native Corporation, Kawerak, Norton Sound Health Corporation, and the Nome Community Center.
The ad campaign on the right ran in the Nome Nugget newspaper during 2008. They were also converted into posters which adorn Nome and Nome-Beltz High School.
NCC Tobacco Awareness and Prevention Program
Nome Tobacco Alliance
The Tobacco Alliance specifically addresses social influence and peer pressure as causes of adolescent tobacco use.
Through school curriculum, youth learn resistance skills linked to standing up for themselves and their individual beliefs--something extremely challenging during an individual’s teen years.
They are also educated about the dangers of nicotine and smoking.
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Tobacco-Free Youth Program
Though the Tobacco Alliance and other affiliates, NCC’s Tobacco-Free Youth Program has been able to establish an annual tobacco-free, week-long camp, as well as other programs for kids and teens.
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“Breathe Easy” Campaign
Actor Mandy Patinkin and Nome’s own Boys & Girls Club members star in these anti-tobacco video public services announcements. Mandy is probably best known for his role as Inigo Montoya in The Princess Bride. At the Community Center, we know him as the father of our former Time-Limited Family Reunification Coordinator, Isaac Grody-Patinkin.
Tobacco-Free campers
