Join us for Tobacco-Free Kids (TFK) Week, during Spring 2011, 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 group's newsletter or school newspaper. Write your own or use one of our advertisements or articles.

• 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 throughout 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 from smoking, 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. Go to iQuitKit.org for easy step-by-step directions for stopping smoking and staying off cigarettes.

• 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! Take the Smoking Quiz and give everyone who scores 100% a prize. Dare your friends to enter the Chamber of Horrors or Body by Tobacco 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).