Crawford County's Promise - Fighting Against Corporate Tobacco

Kick "Ash" Bash celebrates being tobacco free

C.A.R.E.'s Youth Leadership Committee sponsored two tobacco-free events this past March. The popular "Kick Ash Bashes" were held in Prairie du Chien on March 9th at the National Guard Armory and in Soliders Grove on March 23rd at the American Legion. Both events ran from 8-10:30, and were open to middle school students from all area schools.

Bash activities included a live DJ, make-your-own tee-shirt, concessions, trivia, a graffiti wall, and tobacco facts.

A mock concession stand helped illustrate the 4,000 agents in a cigarette, including ammonia (used in toilet bowl cleaner), arsenic (rat poison), and acetone (nail polish remover), Stearic Acid (candle wax), and Napthalene (moth balls).

The make-your-own tee-shirt station, called “FACT Fashion” gave students a chance to make their own fashion statement while sending a message to tobacco companies that they won’t be targeted. Some of the more creative tee-shirts read such things as “$ Not buying tobacco lies,” “Non-smokers get more kisses,” and “Don’t be a butthead.”

The bashes are an annual event of the C.A.R.E. Youth Leadership Committee. The events are funded cooperatively by Crawford County Public Health, Crawford Abuse Resistance Effort, and Prairie du Chien Memorial Hospital.

Photos from 2007 Bashes

3/13/2007 - Photos from 2007 Bashes

Kick "Ash" Bashes

4/2/2007 - Photos from both Kick "Ash" Bashes in PdC and in Soldiers Grove in March of 2007.

	What all is in a cigarette? This mock concession stand can tell you.
	Dancing the night away.
	Enjoying a little bit of limbo
	What do you think about smoking? Make a shirt to tell us.
	Some of the North Crawford YLC
	Having a good time.
	Writing on the graffiti wall
	Fun times
	Making shirts... one of the many activites of the night.
	The PdC YLC
	Who can go the lowest?