Personal Injury Law

The State of Florida Wants You To Quit!

By Eddie Farah

The state of Florida is spending about 58 million to get you to kick the habit.  

Any Floridian who qualified because of income can obtain the stop smoking aids for up to eight weeks.   Call 1-877-822-6669 for the free nicotine patches, gum and lozenges. Even those who make over $45,000 a year can receive four weeks worth. 

The program is called "Tobacco Free Florida" and besides the nicotine patches you can go on their web site www.tobaccofreeflorida.com to join a service to help you quit.

It's called Qwitter and tracks your cigarette use.  Anyone needing help can chat online with someone who can provide encouragement.   Also online is a place to upload your picture and with the help of the "Smokifier" program, you can see what you will look like after several years of smoking.

For students there is a video contest called "You Care Video Contest" that will air the anti-smoking message on television and on the  Tobacco Free Florida web site. 

The state is required to spend at least 15 percent of its annual tobacco settlement money on anti-smoking efforts.

Meanwhile Farah and Farah has partnered with Wilner Block to handle thousands of cases of former smokers who qualify under the Engle Trust Fund.  The smoker or his/her estate has until June 16, 2008 to qualify to share equally in the $600 million trust fund set up to compensate smokers for their illnesses or the illness of their loved one.

To qualify you must have been diagnosed with a smoking-related disease before November 21, 1996 and have lived in Florida.  Our Tobacco Florida web site will help you sign up so you don't miss the deadline.  Or you can call our Tobacco Florida toll free number at 1-866-404-4244.  

Full post as published by Jacksonville Personal Injury Lawyer on May 08, 2008 (boomark / email).