Some small towns with big needs for doctors got good news this week when the state’s Tobacco Settlement Endowment Trust and Oklahoma Health Care Workforce Training Commission announced that nine new doctors had been placed in towns through the Physician Loan Repayment Program.
Tobacco Stops With Me, a program of the Tobacco Settlement Endowment Trust, has launched two new campaigns to educate Oklahomans about the deadly health effects of secondhand smoke, which gets the blame for the deaths of 50,000 nonsmoking Americans every year.
May 31 is World No Tobacco Day. It’s a day set aside to think about and to educate kids about the harmful impacts of tobacco, which kills more than 8 million people each year. This year, Tobacco Stops With Me, a program of the Tobacco Settlement Endowment Trust, has asked Oklahomans to reflect effects of smoking and other forms of tobacco use, like vaping and dipping snuff.
OKLAHOMA CITY — The Tobacco Settlement Endowment Trust is marking the two-year anniversary of an Oklahoma law that raised the minimum age of sale for tobacco products from 18 to
Money from the state’s Tobacco Settlement Endowment Trust will be tapped to build a $700,000 horticulture education center at Oklahoma State University, to improve a walking track and install fitness equipment at OSU-OKC, and to improve parks, “streetscapes” and other amenities ranging from a pickleball court to a disc golf course in various towns across the state.