Tag: Tennessee

Last Week of February Proclaimed Tennessee Quit Week

A new Tobacco-Free Coalition from the Tennessee Department of Health has proclaimed February 22-26 as Tennessee Quit Week.

According to a press release, “It is part of a statewide effort to raise awareness of the Tennessee Tobacco QuitLine and other free resources available to help Tennesseans quit smoking and/or using other tobacco products.”

Learn more and find a calendar of Quit Week events at http://tn.gov/health/topic/FHW-tobacco. Join the conversation on Twitter using the hashtag #QuITTInTimeTN.

Appalachia Health News is a project of West Virginia Public Broadcasting, with support from the Benedum Foundation.

Protesters Arrested at Alpha Natural Resources in Bristol

  Police have arrested eight mountaintop removal mining protesters for trespassing at Alpha Natural Resources headquarters in Bristol, Virginia.

Protesters from Mountain Justice and Radical Action for Mountains and People’s Survival say they blocked the entrance to Alpha for two hours Friday. They protested the opening of two new mines on Coal River Mountain in southern West Virginia.

Alpha spokesman Steve Hawkins says the protest didn’t prevent anyone from getting to work.

Bristol Police Department Lt. Vic Jordan says the protesters were arrested without incident. Several protesters locked themselves together. Another climbed a flagpole and hung a flag saying, “Save Coal River Mountain.”

Radical Action for Mountain Peoples’ Survival protesters were arrested in May 2013 after blocking the road leading to Alpha.

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