Tweets for Your Sweet: Campaign to Help Students Quit Smoking

Statewide campaign uses Twitter lingo to talk to students about quitting smoking

It sounds like a Valentine’s Day campaign, but it’s not. “Tweets for Your Sweet” is a statewide initiative in North Carolina to help teens quit smoking and raise awareness about the resources available for those trying to kick the habit.

As a part of the North Carolina Tobacco Free Colleges initiative, students were asked to submit short, Twitter-sized messages that they would send to someone they cared about to encourage them to quit smoking.

“We are always looking for student input to help drive policy and impact health,” Geoff Zuckerman told The Seahawk, a University of North Carolina publication.

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