Mission

At TobaccofreeRx, our mission is to allow pharmacies to fulfill their role as health-promoting facilities by ridding them of the burden of selling tobacco and tobacco products.

Our effort is not just about heart disease or stroke. It is not just about lung disease or lung cancer. The issue is not only for concerned pharmacists, current smokers, former smokers or for those who are trying to quit. Keeping our pharmacies tobacco-free is an issue that involves all these groups, and many others. TobaccofreeRx.org was founded to give increased visibility for those working on this issue.

Board of Advisors

Alan Blum                  

Gerald Leon Wallace Endowed Chair in Family Medicine, University of Alabama

Director, University of Alabama Center for the Study of Tobacco and Society (Tuscaloosa, Alabama)

Ashley Weems

PharmD candidate 2012, Harrison School of Pharmacy, Auburn University

APhA-Academy of Student Pharmacists National Speaker of the House (Auburn, Alabama)

Bob Gordon               

Project Manager, California LGBT Tobacco Education Partnership (San Francisco, California)

D.J. Wilson

Attorney and Tobacco Control Director, Massachusetts Municipal Association (Boston, Massachusetts)

Elizabeth Sullivan      

Pharmacy student and advocate, University of Illinois at Chicago College of Pharmacy (Chicago, Illinois)

Judy Rightmyer        

Director, Capital District Tobacco-Free Coalition (Albany, New York)

Karen Hudmon         

Associate Professor, Purdue University College of Pharmacy (West Lafayette, Indiana)

Laura Gube               

Pharmacy student and advocate, University of Illinois at Chicago College of Pharmacy (Chicago, Illinois)

Lisa Causey               

Attorney at Law, Pate and Spivey LLP (Beaumont, Texas)

Michael Cummings

Chair, Dept of Health Behavior, Div of Cancer Prevention and Pop Sci, Roswell Park CI (Buffalo, New York)

Patrick Malone          

Principal Attorney, Patrick Malone and Associates, P.C. (Washington, DC)

Paul Jungnickel         

Professor and Associate Dean for Academic and Student Affairs, Harrison School of Pharmacy, Auburn University (Auburn, Alabama)

Founder

TobaccofreeRx.org was founded by Vinayak Jha, MD. Dr. Jha serves as assistant professor of medicine at The George Washington University Medical Faculty Associates, and is board-certified in internal medicine, pulmonary medicine and critical care medicine. He also serves as program director of The George Washington University fellowship program in pulmonary and critical care medicine, and is president of the Metropolitan DC Thoracic Society.

Contact Us

We invite you to join us in our work to combat tobacco dependence and decrease the number of children and adults who fall victim to nicotine addiction. If you would like to collaborate, assist, or donate your time or money, please contact us.

Is there a locality introducing legislation that you don't see listed in "Local Efforts?" Please let us know.

This page last updated Sept 23, 2011