Tobacco Control Program

The RI Tobacco Control Network's Tobacco Control Resource Center is maintained by:

American Lung Association of Rhode Island
260 West Exchange Street, Suite 102B
Providence, RI 02903

Office hours are 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. on Monday through Friday, excluding holidays.  You can stop in any time during those hours, but please call ahead to make sure someone is there. If it is your first visit, please call and set up an appointment with Molly Clark so that you can have an introductory tour.  The Center is open to anyone concerned about tobacco use.  Materials such as pamphlets, bookmarks, signs, buttons, stickers, posters, etc. are available in reasonable quantities at no charge for organizations, schools, doctors’ offices, student projects, etc.  All materials, whether given or on loan, must be signed out in the log book.

Call (401) 421-6487 for information. (Extension 20 if the machine answers.) (Those who must make a toll call to reach Providence may call 1-800-LUNG-USA to get ALARI.)

The Resource Center has pamphlets on a variety of subjects, including:

• Secondhand Smoke
• Smoking Cessation (for adults, college age, and teens)
  (including dealing with stress and weight gain concerns, and helping someone else quit)
• Effects of Tobacco Use on the Body
• General information about tobacco for all age levels from coloring books to materials for adults
• Tobacco Advertising and targeting of youth, women, and other populations
• Advocacy for Tobacco Control     
• Activity workbooks for various ages
• Smoking and Women, including Smoking and Pregnancy
• Alternative forms of tobacco (cigars, pipes, hookahs, bidis, spit tobacco, etc.)
• Other things people smoke, such as marijuana
  The Center also has posters, stickers, bookmarks, buttons, signs, etc.

There is a lending library of videos, CD-ROMs, and DVDs, as well as various audiovisual aids such as flip charts, models of diseased lungs, exhibit boards about tobacco and about secondhand smoke, etc. 

There is a reference library of books, government reports, magazines, samples of curricula and materials, electronic copies of articles, etc. (Reference library materials must be used in-house, they are not circulated)

Speakers and technical assistance on any tobacco or lung health-related subject are also available through the RI Tobacco Control Network and the American Lung Association of Rhode Island.

Funding provided by RI Department of Health and US Centers for Disease Control