Post by Logan on Jun 7, 2016 20:14:12 GMT -6
The recent announcement that Salt Lake City International Airport is eliminating its smoking rooms is seen as a big win for BYU public health students.
“We went with the American Cancer Society to the Capitol when they were voting on the issue,” said Maren Parsons, a BYU senior and public health major. “We explained that cancer effects everybody and why we think this would benefit Utah.”
In their methods of health promotion class during Winter Semester, students researched people’s opinions on smoking rooms, whether the ventilation in smoking rooms was effective and what other airports have done in the past with regard to these smoking rooms. Then they teamed up with the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network (ACS-CAN) in order to make a difference.
Parsons said she and her classmates were excited to help ACS-CAN in its efforts to lobby for the elimination of smoking rooms in the Salt Lake airport, because it is a small group with few paid employees.
Read more: universe.byu.edu/2016/06/07/byu-public-health-majors-help-eliminate-airport-smoking-rooms1/
“We went with the American Cancer Society to the Capitol when they were voting on the issue,” said Maren Parsons, a BYU senior and public health major. “We explained that cancer effects everybody and why we think this would benefit Utah.”
In their methods of health promotion class during Winter Semester, students researched people’s opinions on smoking rooms, whether the ventilation in smoking rooms was effective and what other airports have done in the past with regard to these smoking rooms. Then they teamed up with the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network (ACS-CAN) in order to make a difference.
Parsons said she and her classmates were excited to help ACS-CAN in its efforts to lobby for the elimination of smoking rooms in the Salt Lake airport, because it is a small group with few paid employees.
Read more: universe.byu.edu/2016/06/07/byu-public-health-majors-help-eliminate-airport-smoking-rooms1/