Working to promote healthier communities and smoke-free air
for ALL South Carolinians.

The South Carolina African American Tobacco Control Network (SCAATCN) was created in 1998 as a statewide tobacco control network committed to reducing the impact of tobacco use and secondhand smoke exposure in the African-American community. SCAATCN provides information to communities across the state to neutralize the effects of the tobacco companies’ targeted marketing to communities of color. A major goal of SCAATCN is to provide African American communities with a variety of tools for tobacco control. Through our combined actions, smoking could disappear as a major health issue, ending needless premature loss of life.

Smoke-Free Action Network (SFAN) began in 2006 to satisfy the need for a community-based organization with a specific focus on the passage of laws to create smokefree indoor workplaces and public places to protect all citizens.

Soon after SFAN’s formation, it formed a partnership with SCAATCN to pass comprehensive smokefree laws in local municipalities in the lowcountry. The two organizations worked on local campaigns in South Carolina when, during a nine-month period, nine municipalities went smoke free. These communities include: Sullivan’s Island, Liberty, Greenville, Columbia, Beaufort County, Bluffton, Charleston, Aiken County, and Hilton Head Island.