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Contacts:

Abby Winn, 407-913-5115 mobile; awinn3@tigers.lsu.edu

Judith Sylvester, founder, Smoking Words student organization,
225-578-2067; jsylves@lsu.edu

Fresh Campus/SmokingWords Student Organization Awarded $250 for Kick Butts Day
LSU, BATON ROUGE, La. (Feb. 26, 2014) Fresh Campus/SmokingWords student
organization (www.mysmokingwords.org) was awarded $250 from Tobacco-Free Kids to fund Kick Butts
Day activities. A tailgate catered by Walk-Ons will take place on the Journalism Building patio, or in the
Holliday Forum in case of rain, on March 19 from 4 to 6 pm preceding an LSU baseball game.
Fresh Campus/SmokingWords is a student organization that helps raise awareness about the
effects of tobacco use and secondhand smoke. The organization has partnered with Tobacco-Free Kids to
host Kick Butts Day to further support its efforts. Ritney A. Castine, associate director, youth advocacy,
will appear as a special guest at the tailgate to represent the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids.
What could be better than celebrating LSUs progress toward becoming a smoke-free campus
with free food from Walk-Ons? We thank Tobacco-Free Kids for supporting Fresh Campus efforts, said
Derick Bercegeay, Fresh Campus/SmokingWords acting president.
Kick Butts Day is an annual event to help raise awareness of the effects of tobacco use and
secondhand smoke. In the past, Kick Butts Day has included a campus cleanup of all cigarette butts
strewn throughout campus. It continues to be a successful event for Fresh Campus/SmokingWords.
More About Fresh Campus and SmokingWords
Fresh Campus at LSU is one of 10 Fresh Campus organizations in the state of Louisiana. Fresh
Campus was started by Tobacco-Free Living in efforts to bring awareness to young people who are
affected by tobacco. It also supports the implementation of tobacco-free policies on college campuses.
SmokingWords was started after receiving a grant through the Board of Regents Health
Excellence and later partnered with Tobacco-Free Living to continue reaching its goal. It works in
accordance with Fresh Campus principles, and is an educational program at LSU that promotes tobaccofree lifestyles among college students.
About Tobacco-Free Kids
The Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids is a leading force in the fight to reduce tobacco use and its
deadly toll in the United States and around the world. It advocates for public policies proven to prevent
kids from smoking, help smokers quit and protect everyone from secondhand smoke.

It has worked on legislations to excise a tax on tobacco and also to make campuses tobacco free. It
continues to fight for smoke-free and tobacco-free laws that will help spare people the health risks that
come along with tobacco use.
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