{"id":6147,"date":"2011-09-21T14:55:01","date_gmt":"2011-09-21T18:55:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencebusiness.technewslit.com\/?p=6147"},"modified":"2011-09-21T14:55:01","modified_gmt":"2011-09-21T18:55:01","slug":"mayo-clinic-builds-partnership-for-smoke-free-workplaces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/?p=6147","title":{"rendered":"Mayo Clinic Builds Partnership for Smoke-Free Workplaces"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1266\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1266\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/BrokenCigarette_WomensHealthGov.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1266\" title=\"BrokenCigarette_WomensHealthGov\" src=\"http:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/BrokenCigarette_WomensHealthGov.jpg\" alt=\"Broken cigarette (WomensHealth.gov)\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/BrokenCigarette_WomensHealthGov.jpg 300w, https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/BrokenCigarette_WomensHealthGov-150x100.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1266\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">(WomensHealth.gov)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mayoclinic.org\/news2011-rst\/6451.html\">Mayo Clinic<\/a> in Rochester, Minnesota launched today a new program to encourage employers to make their workplaces smoke free. The Global Smoke-Free Worksite Challenge was announced at the annual meeting of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.clintonglobalinitiative.org\/\">Clinton Global Initiative<\/a> in New York.<\/p>\n<p>The Global Smoke-Free Worksite Challenge is a collaboration among the American Cancer Society, the Global Business Coalition on Health, Johnson &amp; Johnson, Mayo Clinic, the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids, and the U.S. Department of Health &amp; Human Services.<\/p>\n<p>The goal of the challenge is to expand the number of employees of all economic sectors able to work in a smoke-free environment. The effort involves a global partnership of private sector companies, nongovernmental organizations and governments committed to making their workplaces 100 percent smoke-free and help others to do so.<\/p>\n<p>The challenge builds on the campaign announced last year at CGI called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.globalbridges.org\/\">Global Bridges<\/a>. That program has begun to build a network of health care providers to lead development of tobacco control and treatment programs in their countries and regions. Mayo Clinic says that in less than a year, Global Bridges has trained more than 5,800 health care providers from 31 countries in sessions ranging from Webinars to in-person workshops.<\/p>\n<p>Read more: <a href=\"http:\/\/sciencebusiness.technewslit.com\/?p=1263\">Panel: Make Cigarettes Non-Addictive<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">*\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 *\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 *<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota launched today a new program to encourage employers to make their workplaces smoke free. The Global Smoke-Free Worksite Challenge was announced at the annual meeting of the Clinton Global Initiative in New York. The Global Smoke-Free Worksite Challenge is a collaboration among the American Cancer Society, the Global Business [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[31,51,91,64],"class_list":["post-6147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ventures","tag-biomedical","tag-cancer","tag-heart-disease","tag-life-sciences"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6147"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6147\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6151,"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6147\/revisions\/6151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}