Activities
All successful events require extensive planning. The 2009 Kick Butts Day Guide has ideas and timelines that will help you plan for a successful Kick Butts Day.
Successful and popular Kick Butts Day event ideas featured in the 2009 Kick Butts Day Activity Guide:
Kicking Butts on Film
Are you an aspiring filmmaker? Do you or the youth you work with love acting? Here's a chance to share your anti-tobacco message with the world. Find out more about how you can reach hundreds of thousands of people by making a video public service announcement (PSA) and posting it on YouTube. This is a great opportunity for youth to stand out, speak up, and seize control against Big Tobacco.
Estimated preparation time: 2 months
Cost: $0 - $200
KBD Carnival
A KBD Carnival is a creative and fun way to give people important information about tobacco use and the tobacco industry. It's also a great way for youth advocates to lead the fight for policies, programs and practices that protect kids from tobacco use and secondhand smoke.
Estimated preparation time: 1-2 months
Cost: $50 - $100 or more
They put what in a Cigarette?!
There's a lot more than tobacco in cigarettes, spit tobacco and secondhand smoke. There are plenty of chemicals that can also be found in everyday household products. For this activity, you will create a display that tells others about these ingredients and exposes the truth.
Estimated preparation time: 3-4 weeks
Cost: $10 - $20
Numbers Campaign
How do you get people to realize just how deadly tobacco is? By creating a way to show the “fatal figures” for your state or your community. There are a lot of easy ways to make numbers into something that people will understand. Turn the numbers into what they represent: LIVES.
Estimated preparation time: 2 months
Cost: $20 or more
Sumo Wrestling/Boxing Match
Use a boxing match to help expose how the tobacco companies enjoy the profits from their deadly products rather than caring about the lives of their customers. There are several ways you can set up the boxing match. You and your group can decide to make it as elaborate or as simple as you'd like.
Estimated preparation time: 4-10 weeks
Cost: $50-400
Pledge/Graffiti/Memorial Wall
Choose from one of the three or combine them all together. Create a wall as a memorial to lost loved ones from tobacco, create graffiti expressing your thoughts towards big tobacco, or create a pledge wall for people to pledge to quite tobacco and support those who are trying to quit. Read more to learn more about each possibility.
Estimated preparation time: 2-3 weeks
Cost: $20-$30
Take it to the Streets
Grab your whole community's attention when you take it to the streets and spread interesting tobacco company quotes and tobacco facts all across your town.
Estimated preparation time: 1-2 weeks
Cost: $0 - $20
StoreALERT/Point of Purchase
Next time you go into a store that sells tobacco take a look around. More likely than not, the store will be covered in tobacco advertisements, many located right at child height. You can use this activity to draw attention to the prevalence of tobacco advertisements in your community.
Estimated preparation time: 2-3 weeks
Cost: $0 - $15
Tobacco-Free Facilities
Everyone deserves the right to breathe clean, smoke-free air. This is your chance to create smoke-free policies that make sure everyone actually gets that right! Find out ways to make a difference in the health of your community.
Estimated preparation time: 2-3 months
Cost: $30
Working to Pass a Local Ordinance
Have an impact on your community! Work to get a law passed in your city to protect people from secondhand tobacco smoke or stop tobacco sales to kids.
Estimated preparation time: 3 months
Cost: $40 or more
Contact Members of Congress
You don't have to work just at the local level. Let your members of Congress know that you think the tobacco companies should tell the public what exactly is in their deadly products. You can take action!
Estimated preparation time: 1 month
Cost: $0 - $20
Kick the Can
Kick the Can is a group of activities which focus on the use of spit tobacco. Create a make your own spit exhibition and show your audience exactly what tobacco companies put in spit tobacco. Create a Spit Kit to help others quit using spit tobacco, or hand out Kick the Can stickers to advertise your views on spit tobacco.
Estimated preparation time: Varies
Cost: Varies
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