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Making a Difference: Health Investment Partnership and Nevada Youth
Each day, more than 4,000 kids try their first cigarette; another 1,000 become addicted smokers. Health Investment Partnership (HIP), Teens Against Tobacco Use (T.A.T.U.) and other Nevada youth are working toward ending this sad trend in a most sensible way…by kicking butts!
Thousands of local teens and HIP members joined forces to honor Kick Butts Day, a nationwide initiative held March 23rd this year, in an effort to stop youth tobacco use. Omega Gents youth guidance organization created an informational booth at Western High School; Sierra Vista’s Key Club created a flash mob at their lunches highlighting the dangers of smoking; Casa de Luz, an inner city faith-based group, created fact cards and passed out information on smoking cessation; Students from Cheyenne, Rancho, Arbor View and SWCTA High Schools participated in the “Be a flower and not a butt” campaign; and Basic High School Key Club and Student Council developed and wore signs with tobacco statistics.
“The tobacco companies make smoking look cool in their ads, but that’s nothing but a lie,” said Sean Judd, a member of T.A.T.U. “There’s nothing cool about bad breath, a nasty cough and an early death.” These teens are our future, and we applaud their creative efforts to make it free from the devastating consequences of tobacco use. For more information, visit www.tobaccofreenv.org.
