Kids in South Arkansas Send Anti-Smoking Messages
By: Brea Douglas
Updated: March 20, 2013
ELDORADO -- El Dorado High School students are using styrofoam cups and putting them in chain fences at different schools to inform folks of the dangers of tobacco.
They are using the cups to spread messages like, "Tobacco is Wacko, Tobacco Kills and Tobacco-No."
The effort is a part of Kick Butts Day- a state wide kids initiative that brings awareness to the deadly affects of smoking cigarettes.
Organizers say it's important for young people to get involved with the mission.
"We're teaching young students at an early age how to become advocates about things they are passionate about and so obviously the tobacco laws our young people are very disturbed that they have been misled for so many years and people have been misled by the tobacco industry," said Dee Crawford, Director of the Pride Youth Program.
Wednesday, kids across the state will meet at the capitol building in Little Rock for a rally against tobacco use.
