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The Adkins Award for Lifetime of Tobacco Education is recognition of a long-term, personal endeavor to educate others on the negative effect tobacco has had on West Virginia, its people and economy.


The award is named for Bruce W. Adkins, the Director of the Division of Tobacco Prevention for the West Virginia Bureau for Public Health for the past ten years.  He is a tireless advocate for clean indoor air and tobacco prevention.  He received a B.S. in Medical Sciences from Alderson Broaddus College in Philippi, West Virginia, and a M.S. in Human Resource Management (with a health care administration emphasis) from the University of Charleston (WV). He practiced twenty-five years as an orthopedic and surgical physician's assistant, scrubbing-in on thousands of cancer and tobacco-related surgeries, before coming over to the public health arena.  He is also trained and adept at auricular therapy and acupressure massage therapy. He is also has taken adjunct training in bioterrorism preparedness (which lends itself well to tobacco prevention!).

He is currently serving as the immediate past chair of the national Tobacco Control Network, is a member of the National Chronic Disease Directors Association Tobacco Council and the Wellness and Workplace Committee, and has served the past eight years on the Break Free Alliance (formerly known as the National Network on Tobacco Prevention and Poverty). He has presented on various topics at many national tobacco prevention and health promotion conferences and trainings.
 

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