NetPEO Lung Cancer Awareness Scholarship

As a company, NetPEO recognizes the need for more lung cancer awareness among teenage and young adult tobacco users and non-users. Despite smoking’s known risks, many teens continue to pick up the habit.

This is why NetPEO is offering a $2,500 Lung Cancer Awareness Scholarship. Applicants must be college-bound high school students or current college attendees, and must write an essay about how smoking affects society as a whole and what young people can do to address the issue with their peers.

For nearly two decades, NetPEO has been offering a simple and cost-effective way for businesses to find a professional employer organization (PEO). By bringing small- and mid-sized businesses together with human resource outsourcing companies, we give our clients leverage and opportunity to compete at the same level as their larger competitors.

NetPEO brokers feel the same way about education: a quality education can afford young people the leverage and opportunity to compete in the global workforce.

NetPEO Lung Cancer Awareness Scholarship Application

Introductory Paragraph
Our company wants to know about you and your interest in this scholarship. Please write a short informational paragraph about yourself and let us know how this scholarship can help you reach your academic goals. This introductory paragraph will not count toward the total word count of your essay.

Short Essay
Write a 500 to 1,000-word essay on how smoking affects the community as a whole, and what young people can do to address this with their peers.

Application Requirements
To apply you must be enrolled in a high school curriculum, be on track to graduate on time, and intend to work toward a university degree following graduation
You must be enrolled at a college or university and remain in good academic standing, AND
You must submit an official high school or college transcript

Tobacco-Related Lung Cancer Is Preventable

According to tobacco data statistics published by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, about 9 in 10 cigarette smokers started smoking by the time they were 18 years of age.

The American Lung Association’s Lung Cancer Fact Sheet states that smoking contributes to 80% of lung cancer deaths in female smokers and 90% of lung cancer deaths in men who smoke.