Stand Tall Against Tobacco (STAT)
is a project of the Texas Medical Association — Student Section (TMA-MSS)
chapter at The Texas A&M University System Health Science Center College
of Medicine. Since research shows that tobacco use begins early and substantially
increases during the middle school years, STAT
provides presentations to seventh-graders, including student assemblies,
classroom visits and an area-wide public service announcement contest.
In its first year alone, STAT
reached approximately 1,400 seventh grade students in the Bryan-College
Station area.
The STAT program, which originated at the A&M System Health Science
Center College of Medicine, is now reaching beyond Texas. The American
Medical Association’s Medical Student Section (AMA-MSS
) selected tobacco as its National Service Project (NSP
) for 2002-2004. Students from the AMA-MSS
chapters at Texas A&M University and Pennsylvania State University
jointly submitted a proposal on tobacco, and the MSS
Assembly at the 2001 Interim Meeting selected it as the new NSP
. The MSS campaign,
“No Butts About It…Tobacco Stinks!” focuses on tobacco
education and prevention in children.
Partners with STAT
in Texas include: Texas Medical Association Medical Student Section (TMA-
MSS ); Bryan Independent School District; A&M System Health
Science Center College of Medicine; Aggie Athletes Involved; TAMU
Premed Society; AMSA Premed; and Aggie Alliance.
For More Information about STAT,
please contact:
hsccommstat@tamushsc.edu
