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Penn Wood High School Students host 2010 Kick
Butts Day Sale!
On Wednesday, March 24 & Wednesday, April 28, 2010, Penn Wood
High School GSA (Gay Straight Alliance) students celebrated Kick
Butts Day, which is a national day where teens encourage their
peers to kick tobacco habits and become tobacco-free! The youth
coordinated a Kick Butts Day lollipop and air freshner sale to
be at all lunches on Wednesday, March 24, 2010 &
Wednesday, April 28, 2010. The students sold goods and also
educated their peers and school personnel on what Kick Butts Day
was and the resources out there for someone to quit smoking. In
addition, tobacco ads that specifically target African Americans
from the "Not a Cough in a Carload" collection were displayed.
Students enjoyed looking at the ads and realized how tobacco
companies target them.
National Kick Butts Day
Kickball Tournament deemed a Success!!
Holcomb Behavioral Health Systems, in
collaboration with the Delaware County Tobacco-Free
Coalition, celebrated National Kick Butts Day on
Wednesday, March 25, 2009, by hosting a kickball
tournament for area teens.
Kick Butts Day is a national day of activism that
empowers youth to speak up and take action against Big
Tobacco at more than 2,000 events across the country.
The kickball tournament was sponsored the Southeastern
Pennsylvania Tobacco Control Project, a regional
coalition of health professionals and tobacco control
advocates working to combat tobacco use throughout
Berks, Bucks, Chester, Delaware, Lancaster, Montgomery
and Schuylkill counties.
The tournament ran from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. and will took place at Smedley Field in Springfield, PA.
Over 35 youth came out to play and to support a
tobacco-free lifestyle!
Photos from
2008 Great American Smoke Out!
As part of a national campaign to encourage people to quit
smoking for one day, the Delaware County Tobacco-Free Coalition
sponsored educational tables at the Media Government Center and
the Granite Run Mall for the Great American Smoke Out on
Thursday, November 20, 2008. Information and brochures on free
Delaware County programs and services including Quitting
Smoking, Smoke -Free Homes & Cars, and the hazards of second
hand smoke was available free of charge to the general public.
Local High School students also participated in "Ashtrays to
Art" project, where the youth asked restaurants that were
disposing of their ashtrays (due to the new Clean Indoor Air
Act) to instead donate them to their art project. Below are some
pictures of what the students created. Schools that participated
in the project were Sacred Heart and Ridley High School.
  
To request more information or to learn more about quitting
smoking and free group cessation classes, please call Holcomb
Behavioral Health Systems (Media office) at 484-444-0412.
Photos from
Independence From Tobacco:
Wed.,
July 2, 2008 - 10 a.m. - 2 p.m.
@ Independence Mall, Philadelphia, PA
 
On July 2nd, 2008, Southeastern
Pennsylvanians claimed their
independence from tobacco. Beginning at 10am in Philadelphia,
this event included tours of historic Philadelphia, food,
and entertainment. Everyone involved in the event
froze 54 times to represent the estimated 54 Pennsylvanians
that die everyday due to tobacco related illness.
Over 300 youth attended this event
to support our independence from tobacco!
Mission Statement
Every day you're being targeted by
industries who want to take your money, change your mind,
and tell you how to live. Stand Up - Don't buy the image,
Speak Out - Challenge the messages, Do Something - empower
yourself and your friends! Youth Advocacy members meet in
their high schools as a part of an existing
group (like SADD or TATU). Youth Advocacy
members are trained in anti-tobacco activism and
counter-marketing, and then take that knowledge in to their
schools and communities with anti-tobacco events.
If you
are interested in having a Youth Advocacy club or activity in your
school, please fill in the following form and click "Join
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