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See below for new information about I-STEP's Summer Summit

Email garin.buttermore@idph.iowa.gov with your suggestions about what else to add.

A guide to helping your local businesses go tobacco free.

This toolkit, created by Linn County Public Health, includes a lot of information about businesses creating a tobacco-free policy. It also includes a sample model policy. Because of it's size it has been broken into four pdf files.

Below are the four different fax forms that can be used by medical providers to refer their patients to Quitline Iowa.

The standard fax form for telephone counseling, A Medicaid Prior Authorization fax form for Nicotine Replacement Therapy (NRT) like patches, gum and lozenges, A Medicaid Prior Authorization fax form for Chantix(tm) and Bupropion.

A fax form for Women Infants and Children (WIC) clinics is also available. The WIC form is the same as the standard form; no separate prescription benefit is available through WIC. Use of this form allows IDPH to better track those fax referrals sent by WIC Clinics.

Visit the Quitline Iowa Website

Please contact Jerilyn Oshel at 515-954-9092 (jerilyn.oshel@idph.iowa.gov) if you have other questions about Quitline Iowa Fax Referrals.

These webinar slides http://www.idph.state.ia.us/tobacco/ are from a webinar in September, 2011.

The following counties are considered 'metro' for purposes of this assessment:

Blackhawk, Cerro Gordo, Dubuque, Johnson, Linn, Polk, Pottawattamie, Scott, Story, Woodbury.

Please remember that retailer assessments need to be entered by June 15, 2012.

• View Tobacco Advertising/Product Tracking Webinar
• Link to the Survey Monkey Retailer Assessment Survey

If you would like a copy of the retailer list as an Excel document, please email garin.buttermore@idph.iowa.gov

This link will open a document with language for a model "tobacco free campus" policy. This document was updated in March, 2012 to include nicotine products. If a school in your area has a comprehensive policy for "tobacco" but does not specifically include nicotine products it is still considered a comprehensive policy and that school does not need to change their policy in order to receive signs. If a school is updating their old policy, we suggest that they use this model language.

A presentation by the FDA on new tobacco products

Button makers are still available for checkout but we can not provide button 'art' or 'templates' anymore. The links below are templates that have been created by other Community Partnerships.

A recording of a webinar about tobacco company retail practices presented by a former employee, La Tanisha Wright

Click here for webinar recording