Soccer Smoking & Prevention
Prevent Smoking Among Soccer Players
| These teen athletes are among the stars of the Milwaukee Smoke-Free Sports Program: Cagney Scott, Damien Williams, Antwon Mayfield, Remale Williams, La'Shaunda Payton, Leandrea Handford, Amanda Plumley, Damon Easterling, Payal Chawda, Jessica Brzezinski, Michael Monk, and John Maxey. issued a proclamation recognizing the event and the Smoke-Free Sports Program's success. At a press conference to highlight the program and teen leadership, Olympic speed skating medalist Leah Poulos Mueller and representatives from the Milwaukee Admirals, Milwaukee Bucks, Milwaukee Mustangs, and Milwaukee Wave were on hand to encourage youth to stay smoke-free. Also lending their support were the city's commissioner of health and the superintendent of schools. Tobacco Control Program Michigan Department of Community Health Lansing, Michigan (517) 335-8381 Michigan is tackling tobacco from all sides. The City of Detroit hosted a Spencer Haywood Basketball Anti-Tobacco Rally for kids, featuring the sports star who made the Olympic basketball team in 1968 just out of high school and went on to play in the NBA with the New York Knicks and the Detroit Pistons. Through the Michigan Spit Tobacco Project, free materials on the dangers of spit tobacco are distributed and education presentations are made to baseball teams, schools, and other organizations. Annual IMPACT Night with the Wilmington Blue Rocks IMPACT Delaware Tobacco Prevention Coalition and Delaware Tobacco Prevention and Control Program Delaware Department of Health and Social Services Dover, Delaware (302) 739-4724 Each year in June, thousands of kids hear anti-tobacco messages loud and clear at the IMPACT Tobacco Prevention Night at Frawley Stadium, home of the Blue Rocks minor league baseball team. The first 1,500 kids arriving at the game receive a free T-shirt with the IMPACT Night logo on the front and the tobacco use prevention message on the back. At booths and exhibits throughout the stadium, baseball fans are given information about tobacco and other harmful substances. The annual event has kids thinking about tobacco use prevention year-round through its T-shirt design contest, open to middle and high school students in Delaware. The winner of the 2000 T-shirt design contest was 14-year-old Christina Bevenou, whose design featured a ball player at bat with the message, "Hit a Home Run. Don't Smoke or Chew." Not only was the eighth-grader able to see her design on the thousands of IMPACT Night T-shirts printed for the special event, she also was invited to throw out the ceremonial first pitch at the game and got a hug from Blue Rocks mascot Rockey Bluewinkle. 30 The Tobacco-Free Sports Playbook New Mexico State High School Sports Championships New Mexico Department of Health Albuquerque, New Mexico (505) 841-5843 World No Tobacco Day in 1995 kicked off a flurry of successful tobacco-free media events. The theme in 1995 was "Sports Without Tobacco, Play It Tobacco Free," and New Mexico's media advocacy campaign received coverage on local TV stations and on a sports radio talk show. As part of the campaign, baseball coaches were reminded to intervene and encourage their players not to use tobacco, and counter advertising banners were hung at high school boys and girls track and baseball tournaments. Since 1995, New Mexico has produced 11 banners to display at boys and girls championships in soccer, volleyball, basketball, baseball, and track. The colorful banners each bear a different and important message for kids as well as adults. For instance- . Three strikes you're out-spit, dip, chew. . Sports without tobacco, play it tobacco free. . Protect your loved ones from secondhand smoke. . Cigars and spit tobacco are just as dangerous as cigarettes. . Cigarette smoke contains HEXAMINE (which is also used in barbecue lighter fluid). |
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