Legislators are busy individuals and do not have extra time to sort through pages and pages of documents. They have little time and need a brief, concise overview of your concerns and what you are proposing needs to be done.

Resource: tobacco control policy

Create an informational tool that you will hand to a legislator about the importance of yourtobacco and control policy and convey a recommended course of legislative action to change public policy that contributes to the greater good of health care. You should identify a representative to send this information. This can be someone working on the legislation or your own local representative.

You can chose the format for this information. The key is being concise and very clear about what you are proposing. It should be know more than one page.

• A letter addressed to the Representative.
• Flyer
• Brochure
• Flowchart
• Graph
• Pictogram
• Word Cloud