WEEK 3: ACT NOW OR FOREVER HOLD YOUR BREATH

It’s pretty scary…

In the year since our lawmakers failed to pass a comprehensive smokefree bill, another 16,000 of our Michigan kids became regular, daily smokers. Don’t let our lawmakers fall for tobacco industry “tricks.” The Legislature can give our kids a real “treat” this year by passing a comprehensive smokefree bill.

IT’S TIME TO ACT NOW OR FOREVER HOLD YOUR BREATH!

This week, we want you to CALL your Senators and Representatives and tell them you want a comprehensive smokefree law NOW!

Teens who work in smokefree worksites are 25% less likely to smoke than those who work in places without smoking restrictions.

We want to hear from you. Once you've taken action visit our "Act Now or Forever Hold Your Breath" Campaign blog and leave a comment telling us what you've done!

Let’s have our kids collecting candy instead of cancer this year…

KICK BUTTS DAY 2009

Tomorrow, March 25, 2009, is National Kick Butts Day! Kick Butts Day, or KBD, is time for youth everywhere to STAND OUT, SPEAK UP, AND SEIZE CONTROL AGAINST BIG TOBACCO.

Youth across the nation will be holding all sorts of events - graffiti walls memorializing those lost to tobacco related illnesses, to letter writing campaigns to local lawmakers, film festivals featuring short films about tobacco use, and even KBD Carnivals.

Here are some activities from past KBD events, including a NJ group’s music video and “They put WHAT in a cigarette?!”





So, are any KBD events going on near you? Tell us about them!