World No Tobacco Day Text-2-Quit Project BREATHE LA 4-U-N-I Teens Helping Teens Quit Smoking Meet the Technology Challenge

High school and college students celebrate WORLD NO TOBACCO DAY with Text-2-Quit on Saturday May 30, 2009 at Third Street Promenade in Santa Monica. Students are members of BREATHE LA 4-U-N-I Teens Helping Teens Quit Smoking high school service clubs and are student leaders dedicated to positive change.

Join us for lighthearted activities and games and compete to win prizes. See how many texts you can send while hula-hooping or playing ping-pong! Students from Beverly Hills High School, Granada Hills High School, SaMo High and USC and UCLA will take part. And partners from UCLA, USC, and Smoke Free Apartments as well as Dr. Guy SooHoo will present. Cool, fun, informative, this is the place to be on World No Tobacco Day!

BREATHE LA 4-U-N-I Teens Helping Teens Quit Smoking marks World No Tobacco Day each year with a public awareness event. This is their second annual event. In 2008, 4-U-N-I students unveiled anti-smoking animated PSAs at the BodyWorlds3 Exhibit at California Science Center at Exposition Park. This year, the students will put technology to work to spread the word about the dangers of tobacco use with a witty text message created by teens and forwarded throughout Los Angeles and beyond to raise awareness on World No Tobacco day.

4-U-N-I Teens Helping Teens Quit Smoking is a student led on-campus service and leadership club in Los Angeles area High Schools. The program was developed by Beverly Hills High School students with guidance from BREATHE LA program staff. Students at high schools across Los Angeles County and around the world can download program materials to start their own 4-U-N-I Teens Helping Teens Quit Smoking club on campus. That's exactly what students at Granada Hills High School did!

Each student group creates their own on-campus activities and gathers once a year for the World No Tobacco Day Event. Join us to support and celebrate 4-U-N-I Teens Helping Teens Quit Smoking. Be there to experience the students' dedication to promoting important health messages related to the danger of tobacco use through this annual student-driven event on World No Tobacco Day May 30, 2009.

BREATHE LA 4-U-N-I Teens Helping Teens Quit Smoking TEXT - 2 - QUIT World No Tobacco Day event 2009 is sponsored by KIIS-FM and E-Matic

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WHY 4-U-N-I

BREATHE LA 4-U-N-I Teens Helping Teens Quit Smoking is a student-led BREATHE LA supported partnership that allows teens to make a difference on campus and in their communities. Who doesn't know that high school and college students, ages 15-22 are the most wired and technology-savvy generation ever.  BREATHE LA 4-U-N-I Teens Helping Teens Quit Smoking members have been eager to put their tech skills to work with the TEXT 2 QUIT project and invite you to join them for fun, games, activities and prizes, all focused on an important anti-smoking message.

Ultimate multitaskers, BREATHE LA 4-U-N-I Teens Helping Teens Quit Smoking leaders determined the goal for their 2009 World no Tobacco Day event as one that would include a texting competition to message with friends, earn class credit, and gain community service hours all at once.

BREATHE LA 4-U-N-I Teens Helping Teens Quit Smoking are an ethnicaly diverse and high achieving group (70% teen girls 30% teen boys between the ages of 15 and 18 years of age  20% Latino, 17% Black, 63% Asian American, one-third of whom live in "traditional" married-family homes. They are supported by an equally diverse group of USC and UCLA students 18-22 years of age.

Like teens nationwide, BREATHE LA 4-U-N-I Teens Helping Teens Quit Smoking members gravitate toward brands they recognize, and which they've learned about from friends, older siblings and parents - and are eager to establish their own brand loyalties. Your product or service can take a place in their product awareness universe through support of BREATHE LA 4-U-N-I Teens Helping Teens Quit Smoking Text-to-Quit Project 2009. Contact me for details on how you too can multi-task - benefit and help. jrobinsonshimizu@breathela.org

WHY BREATHE LA

An Introduction to Clean Air and Healthy Lungs Leadership

BREATHE California of Los Angeles County (BREATHE LA) is an independent, non-profit organization dedicated to serving the lung health needs of Los Angeles County. BREATHE LA promotes clean air and healthy lungs through research, education, and technology. BREATHE LA 4-U-N-I Teens Helping Teens Quit Smoking is a student-led anti-tobacco awareness campaign on high school campuses in Los Angeles County. The 4-U-N-I Teens Helping Teens Text-to-Quit Project aligns technology with lung health awareness in an outreach activity that marks World No Tobacco Day in Los Angeles.

BREATHE LA was established in 1903 and has over a century of accomplishments. Today we are part of BREATHE California, a statewide organization that works in partnership to advocate for clean air policies that best serve and involve our local communities.

BREATHE LA is a 501 (c) (3) non-profit organization
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