Join us for Tobacco Free Kids (TFK) Week during the Spring of 2009 in Anne Arundel County.

Help us make TFK Week fun, crazy, powerful and the best ever! Here are some ideas to get you started:

• Make a big anti-smoking banner. Have everyone in your group hold it and get your picture taken. Send us the photo and we’ll put it on the Showcase page. Contact us to find out how.

• Put an article about smoking in your newsletter or newspaper. Check out the press kit that includes news releases and story ideas you can use. Or use one of these ads.

• Solve puzzles and enjoy coloring sheets with anti-tobacco information.

• To feel how smoking damages your lungs, have everyone in your group run a race while breathing through a straw.

• Hold a Tobacco Death Day at school. Participating students can paint their faces white, or take a vow not to speak through the school day to symbolize death from smoking.

• Make orange “remembrance ribbons” in memory of the people who died from smoking. (If you know someone who died, write that person’s name on your ribbon.) Have everyone in your group wear them the same day.

• Create a graffiti wall or pledge wall. Cover a wall with white paper and have people in your group write anti-tobacco “graffiti” on it. Or use it as a pledge wall and see how many people you can get to sign their names as a promise not to smoke.

• If you have friends who smoke, help them kick the habit. Download the I Quit booklet or call the Learn To Live Line, 410-222-7979, for a free Teen Quit Kit (Anne Arundel County residents only).

• Make daily announcements giving nasty facts on smoking. Download a list of morning announcement ideas. Or use the Fast Facts.

• Use our Fast Facts page to make a tobacco trivia quiz, and give the quiz to everyone in your group. Or use tobacco facts for school or club announcements.

• Hold a poster contest with anti-tobacco messages, and display the posters where everyone can see them. The Department of Health puts some of the best TFK Week posters on this site’s Showcase page.

• Use this site! Challenge your friends to the Kick-A-Butt game and see who scores the highest. Take the Smoking Quiz, and give everyone who scores 100% a prize. Dare your friends to enter the Chamber of Horrors and see gruesome pictures of real cancer.
  
  
• Want everyone to see your activity? Send us a color photo and we’ll post it on this site’s Showcase page (Anne Arundel County residents only).