Greendale High School FACT students and Greendale Middle School Tobacco Fighters joined forces to hold a Kick Butts Day event at the GMS earlier this month. Middle school students chose a duck from a “pond”. The number on the bottom of the duck indicated the difficulty of the tobacco-related question the student must answer. If the question was not answered correctly, the consequence was drinking a small cup of mixed fruit juices (though students did not know which juices were in the drink). Drinking a cup of unknown liquid is like using tobacco products, in which you put unknown chemicals into your body. Some of the harmful chemicals in tobacco products were displayed. Students were entered to a gift-card prize drawing for participating.
Tobacco Fighters proclaimed the collaboration and event “awesome” and plan to do a joint project with FACT again next year. Kick Butts Day is a national youth empowerment day sponsored by the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids. Our students were part of over 1,400 youth groups who stood up, spoke out and seized control against Big Tobacco.