A local advocate of anti-tobacco policies will be the featured speaker at the Vicksburg Association of Marketing Professionals’ Sept. 6 meeting.

Leslie Horton is director of the Tobacco Free Coalition of Warren & Claiborne Counties. She has lived in Vicksburg since 1983 and was a professional photographer for 20 years. She also has worked in marketing and has been a consultant for the United Way and Blue Cross-Blue Shield.

She and her husband, Joel, have been married 34 years and have two children.

VAMP meets at noon each first Tuesday at Ameristar’s Heritage Buffet. Lunch is $12. E-mail vicksburgmarketing@yahoo.com for more information.