Summit Prevention Alliance is a recipient of grant funding from the State Tobacco Education and Prevention Partnership (STEPP).  STEPP’s goals are to prevent youth from starting to use tobacco; help people who use tobacco to quit; assist in the reduction of and protection from secondhand smoke; and reduce tobacco use among groups that are disproportionately affected and/or at high risk. Under our current grant, Summit Prevention Alliance’s goals and strategies focus on restricting underage minors access to tobacco products. We plan to accomplish this goal through education and policy change.

Youth and Tobacco

Issue: Tobacco, a lethal and highly addictive substance, is easily accessible to youths in Colorado and Summit County.

Check it out Short-Fact-Sheet

Please check out this great Rotary Presentation given today to the Summit County Rotary. “Youth and Tobacco Use:  A Dangerous Trend” 

 

 2011 National Kick Butts Day

Summit Prevention Alliance celebrated national “Kick Butts Day” at Summit Middle School and Summit High School.  At Summit Middle School 321 kids and at Summit High School 273 kids stop by and learn more about tobacco in Colorado.  We created a poster showing just how tobacco companies market to and target teens.  We asked students to guess the answer to the question:

“How many kids under 18 and alive now in Colorado will die prematurely from tobacco use?”

The correct answer is 92,000.  The winners got a $50 gift card and everyone who took a guess got a prize!  Fun was had by all!

Check out some of the photos from that day HERE

Summit Prevention Alliance We Count Campaign hosted a Community Forum on the Great American Smokeout on November 17, 2011.  Many participants learned about the need to strengthen regulation of sales to youth in our retail outlets.  We encourage community members to write their Town Council or County Commissioner to pass legislation and protect our youth.

Community members viewed poster entries and material and filled out postcards to send.

Winners of the Poster Contest were presented their certificates and gift cards at the presentation by Carli Seeba, Tobacco Prevention Coordinator.  Congrats to all the winners:

High School:

1^st: Mackenzie Rogers

2^nd: Madison Gross

3^rd: Sydney Stein

 

Middle School:

1^st: Savannah Halvorson

Elementary School:

1^st: Isaac Castillo

2^nd: Natalie Scott

3^rd: Madison Harlan

Parents talked to Kari Read, Executive Director of Summit Prevention Alliance about the needs to pass stronger legislation on the sales of tobacco to youth in our community.

All wining posters are:

Mackenzie Rogers, High School:

Madison Gross, High School:

Sydney Stein, High School

Isaac Castillo, Elementary School:

Madison Harlan, Elementary School:

Natalie Scott, Elementary School

Savannah Halvorson, Middle School

A video of the This Is Us Middle and High School Student Committee presented to the forum demonstrated how to respond if  offered tobacco.  Click Here to view the skit.

       

Summit Daily News Articles on Tobacco:

Cracking down on tobacco sales to minors in Summit County

Denver Post Article on Dissolvable Test Market in Colorado:

RJ Reynolds Rejects Request to Stop Test Marketing

View Summit County Television:

Board of County Commissioners County Connection coverage on Tobacco sales of Dissolvable Tobacco products. You can view this subject matter starting about 5:19 minutes into Segment #2.

Check out the effects of Tobacco on the Lungs on this video