Just Eliminate Lies (JEL) is Iowa's youth-led anti-tobacco program that gives Iowa teens the true, unfiltered facts about the tobacco industry's marketing efforts.

When the Iowa Legislature created the Division of Tobacco Use Prevention and Control, they stressed the importance of youth involvement in reducing tobacco use among young people in Iowa.

JEL, Iowa's youth-led anti-tobacco program gives Iowa teens the true, unfiltered facts about the tobacco industry's marketing efforts.

JEL coordinates activities to fight the tobacco industry's efforts to manipulate teens into using tobacco products.

JEL provides peer-to-peer education to youth across the state, promotes leadership at the local level, and implements events and activities across the state to engage youth in the fight against tobacco.

The goals of JEL are to change the general social attitude towards tobacco use, raise awareness through education, create effective counter-marketing, protect the rights of all Iowans from secondhand smoke, and support cessation among the young tobacco user so they quit and encourage youth to never begin using tobacco.

JEL has grown to be one of the most powerful youth led organizations, having over 7,000 members and a JEL summit with over 500 youth in attendance. Mills County Public Health has three JEL groups, established at the

	Glenwood High School
	Glenwood Middle School, and
	East Mills Jr. High School

For more information call (712) 527-9699  or email Melody Ragland - FCS Worker

For helpful information and tips on how you can stop smoking, visit the QUITLINE Iowa website!