Cinema Ad Campaign Against Smoking — National African American Organizations Launch Cinema Ad Campaign in Support of Effort to Assist Baltimore Smokers in Quitting. More than a million moviegoers will learn that if they smoke and wish to quit, help in doing so is just a telephone call away, thanks to a digital cinema ad campaign that will be run in eight Baltimore-area theaters for 12 weeks beginning in March, 2007.
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The National Association of Neighborhoods (NAN), together with five other national African American organizations that form a coalition called African American Partners for a Tobacco-Free Society, are sponsoring a unique initiative in support of a new public health pilot program created by the American Legacy Foundation and called "eX". |
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National CineMedia, one of the nation's largest and most innovate in-theater advertising distributors and marketers, is handling placement of the coalition's digital program. Funding for the effort will come from grant monies provided by American Legacy. |
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Advertisement produced: by the American Legacy Foundation
"We strongly support programs and policies that will improve
the health of citizens in our communities," said Ricardo C.
Byrd, Executive Director of NAN, "especially those that are
aimed at a lifestyle that claims the lives of more than
45,000 African Americans each year." Joining NAN in this
coalition effort are the NAACP, the National Urban League,
the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation, the National
Newspaper Publishers Foundation and the National Conference
of Black Mayors.
The "eX" program aims to change the way smokers feel about
the difficult process of quitting smoking, and points them
to valuable resources to guide their attempt to quit.
"eX", through use of broadcast media, will encourage smokers
who wish to quit, but don't necessarily know how to do so,
to access free resources and methods that are proven to
increase their chances of quitting successfully.
The digital cinema ad campaign sponsored by African American
Partners delivers the message of the "eX" program — using,
in fact, a television spot prepared for the American Legacy
campaign. The cinema ad campaign will appear on more than
100 screens and will include encouragement that smokers who
want to quit should call the toll-free telephone number:
1-800-QUIT NOW. The telephone number is funded, supported
and monitored by the Maryland Department of Health and
Mental Hygiene and callers will be provided personalized
coaching advice on quitting smoking. Also, the cinema ad
will be played on lobby digital screens in certain theaters
and in all, banners and posters specially designed for the
"eX" program will be displayed.
In addition to the supportive efforts of the African
American Partners, the American Legacy Foundation is
collaborating with local Baltimore public health and
community organizations to provide information and expert
guidance to smokers who want to quit. Joining the Foundation
in this significant effort are the Maryland Department of
Health and Mental Hygiene, the City of Baltimore Health
Department, the University of Maryland Medical Center, the
Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center, the Maryland Academy
of Family Physicians, the Baltimore Substance Abuse Systems,
Inc. and MedChi, the Maryland State Medical Society.
Theaters showing the African American Partners cinema ad
campaign are: East Point Movies 10; Bel Air Cinema 14; Hunt
Valley Mall 12; Westminster Cranberry Mall 9; Movies @
Marley Station; Snowden Square; Owings Mills 17; and,
Columbia Mall 14.
For more information: becomeanex.org
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