USC School Of Dentistry, Dental Hygiene Students To Lauch Campus Wide Oral Cancer Screenings - As Part Of National Smoke Out Day

Main Category: Dentistry
Also Included In: Smoking / Quit Smoking;  Conferences
Article Date: 13 Nov 2007 - 1:00 PDT

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USC School of Dentistry, Dental Hygiene Class of 2008 launch campus and communitywide effort to stop smoking-- in an attempt to address rise in smoking rates among college age students in conjunction with Great American Smoke out Day on Thursday, November 15.

College students and those with a college education have traditionally smoked at lower rates than those not attending college. This is now changing. According to the American Cancer Society, 20% of college students have admitted to smoking. Smoking increases the risk factor for heart disease, lung cancer and oral cancer.

Hundreds of USC college students are expected to take advantage of the free oral cancer screenings and stop smoking kits that will be distributed on the USC campus.

The dental hygiene students join with the American Cancer Society, USC Colleges Against Cancer and the USC Pharmacy to help people become aware of the benefits of being tobacco free.

What: USC School of Dentistry- Dental Hygiene Students Launch
Campus wide Oral Cancer Screenings Tied to the Great
American Smoke Out

When: Thursday, November 15, 2007
10:00-3:00 p.m.

Where: USC University Park Campus
Trousdale Parkway near Tommy Trojan
Media Parking Gate #2 off Exposition and Pardee

http://www.usc.edu