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NEW JERSEY STATE ASSOCIATION OF OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH NURSES, INC. CONSTITUENT OF THE AMERtCAN ASSOCIATION: OF OCCUPATIONAI. HEALTH NURSES, INC. May 24, 1990 This letter is in support of the ASSIST Project designed to develop tobacco control activities to reduce cancer morbidity and mortality by reducing the prevalence of smoking. The New Jersey Association of Occupational Health Nurses strongly supports this project. We in industry have been steadily working towards total smoke-free workplaces for several years and welcome this project to further our efforts in accomplishing the Surgeon General's call for a smokefree society by 2000. Occupational Health Nurses recognize the great hazard to the smokers health and the health of those workers exposed to others smoke. Smoking Cessation programs and often offered by these nurses at the worksite and educational literature is available for workers and family members at many industrys. Occupatinal Health Nurses have, in the past, worked closely withACS and the NJ State Dept of Health on many health related issues. We welcome this opportunity to join forces once again with-both groups in support of this project. Sincerely, J Mary L.4/ Mills, BSN, RN, President, NJSAOHN