HOW CAN YOUTH MAKE A DIFFERENCE? What are some ideas/activities that youth can do to make their spaces smoke-free? At home, school, work, etc?
COMMENT LES JEUNES PEUVENT-ILS FAIRE UNE DIFFÉRENCE? Quelles sont certaines des idées/activités que les jeunes peuvent mettre en place pour éliminer la fumée de leurs espaces? à la maison, à l'école, au travail etc.?
Team 1 -
By talking to each
other (to inform people about the effects of ETS and what youth can do about it.)
Remember that peer pressure can be negative and positive.
- C ommunicate
with the government (give the government a plan - how to create smoke-free spaces,
how to reach youth) ask for them to support our groups. Write info letters, then
follow up on them
-Awareness in schools and youth center. (Presentations,
interactive demonstrations of information.) 
- Talk to organizations in commentates. A support group instead of substances
that stimulate their brain. These groups should be solely run by youth.
-
Partnerships with restaurants and public places in order to raise awareness and
make more smoke free spaces. Work spaces. Youth work spaces becoming smoke free.
People will always want to do what they enjoy so if everything were to be smoke
free the chances of them locking themselves inside of their house because things
in their community are smoke free is very unlikely. People need to realize how
smoke effects the world around us.
- Go to council meetings, get the word
out, lobby for stricter bylaws (if needed) make connections !
- Get a group
together if neededÉstrength in numbers.
Team 2 -
- rules for public
places
- promote awareness in homes Kids -> parents
- encourage rules
of smoking in house
- pre-made contracts and space for family to add conditions
- calendar of smoke free days
- contact parents workshop/classes and
send information about kids and ETS and influences
For
Parents of New-Borns
The pictures taken at the hospital of the infant should
be put on a card that says this is your reason to have a smoke free space A new
package kit given to new parents Information on smoking around children and other
people Smoke free decals
Ex. support my decision and keep my home a smoke free place Information on Cessation support Including the picture card of the child stating that of having smoke free spaces
School
School contracts to gain signatures of people who won't smoke near you Activities
with the children such as face painting. Have an old or young buddy system "keep
your buddy smoke free" Shorter breaks between classes might stop the youth from
smoking between classes
Teachers should enforce no smoking on school property Publicly apologizing for smoking in smoke free spaces, they must attend an information meeting on smoking We are not preaching we are trying to teach Inform the person about quitting and help them Bring education about smoking in the curriculum from grades 1-12 Should have the children and young people to sign a smoke free pledge
Primary
grades -
Information and take home the contracts "I promise to be smoke free"
Middle grades -
older
students should talk to the younger students about the smoke free spaces because
the younger students look at the older students as role models "I promise not
to be deceived."
High
School -
"I promise to respect smoke free spaces" We care when the peoples
choices affect our every day lives We should teach them shock therapy about smoking
Work places should be smoke free examples are restaurants
Contracts
in tool kit on how to get the ball rolling.
Webster- support from others
who have took the stand on smoking.
Visuals "smoke free spaces" stickers,
bumper stickers, decals.
Team 3 -
(some
ideas / activities that youth can do to make their spaces smoke free...)
- get contacts / money to make ourselves heard
-by-laws / municipal governments
-penny drop activity
-toonie toss with hockey pucks at local sports
events
-kids talking to their parental units / adults
-talk to school
faculty
-talk to guidance counselor / lung association / health society
- send letters to the government
-advocate for smoke-free area
-start
groups in school to get more people involved (more people more ideas)
-positive
media
-launch for media
-paint in snow "Switch off tobacco"
-30 hour
famine idea (family encourage each other to quit smoking by trying to do it for
30 hours to 7 weeks so on and so forth)
The
Comic Strip (how we'd do it)-
1 .Present multiple companies; ask them to sponsor
you
2.Attract attention (place adds in school / local newspapers)
3.Produce
comic strip by having a contest
4.12 winners per year (one every month)
5.Publish
Movie Theatre
Commercials (How we'd do it)
1 . Plan out, plot and do storyboard
2.
Present idea to a company that would sponsor us (big company with lots of money
- if you know someone who works talk to them
3 . Find talented director,
stylists, special effectsÉ.etc
4. Shoot commercial
5. Post production
(find someone who can do it at home on their computer)
6. Final product (now
it's time to distribute)
Who's it for? What's it for? ... To promote smoke-free spaces!
Team 4 -
Influence people, raise awareness, educate people. Organize roundtable/focus group in our community. Bring publicity to the issue. Get people interested .
Home:
Get people informed about the issue
Take a carbon monoxide detector
and tell them all of the chemicals at their house, give them facts that are in
the house, give them facts about the damage it is causing to everyone Presentations:
People that spend a small fortune on buying cigarettes.
G ive deals
(special recognition)
Guilt trips for the parents to stop smoking in their
homes
Set guidelines
- Designated rooms
- Windows open
- Seal
on doors
- Have just one ashtray
- At home, Fan in the room
School:
get together with a teacher/guidance councilor/school nurse and come up with
a plan to reduce smoking around school using our tool kit
Setguidelines and
work with administration to set strict rules.
Youth people doing presentations
at elementary school (partnerships between the high schools and the elementary
schools and the school board has to be involved)
Team 5 -
The most effective
way to approach this issue is to look at current smoke free spaces and promote
them with advertisements (extra promotion because they are smoke free)
Educate
youth so that they are empowered to approach their employers about enforcing the
quality of a smoke free space They have to have the information before approaching
a school, business, etc. about a smoke free space issue
HOW CAN WE MAKE THIS A PRIORITY IN OUR COMMUNITIES? (develop a communication plan: how to educate people about these issues)
COMMENT FAIRE DE CECI UNE PRIORITÉ POUR NOS COMMUNAUTÉS? (développer un plan d'actio n: comment éduquer les gens à ce sujet)
Team 1 -
Passion! Have an
interest.
-Be informed, a group needs to be presented that will give youth
the rescues to find out about groups not just a few facts. (Research, internet
sites, listening to presentations)
- Get connected and involved. (Joining
a group, forming a group, getting support)
- Start small. (Community activities..
school related activities : activities that relate knowledge of second-hand smoke,
brochures and pamphlets )
- The sky is the limit. Go for it !
Team 2 -
Take the information to the adults about smoke free spaces. We should know the facts, and be educated with the truth about smoking it should be for all ages. Youth should facilitate the smoke free spaces seminars at the work place. Affects of ETS on non-smokers. The cost over the years; smoking costs a small fortune Adult influence on the children around them (positive and negative) Tobacco industry facts and deceptions How to? On establishing smoke-free spaces at work. Students spend one on one time with the elderly this would benefit both the student and the elder. Elderly smoker talks to young smokers help show not invincible, youth witness first hand.
Team 3 -
-little kids (no
smoking around the kids)
-keep talking about itÉdon't let it go / drill it
into their heads
- b e persistent -positive messages to quit smoking
-talking to people involved with politics
-write a lot letters
-petition
-editorials and letters to the editor in the newspaper 
-ministers of health (minister and premier)
-recruit at schools
-Big
screen TV's (ask faculty to play it in school)
- school co-Alison more ideas
from different schools
-high school and elementary school curriculum
Team 4 -
Educate the community
How it hurts people
How companies are run,
Strategies they use
to promote smoking (include the tool kit)
The chemicals
SCARE
THEM!
-Organize a town meeting
-Write newspaper, use radio, TV local
Communication plan
Create Tool Kit:: videos, critics choice, posters, shocking pictures, facts, reference
guide, fun activities, sticker things, include a fan, ashtray, t-shirts, guidelines
for school homes, Presentation outline list of programs available Distribute tool
kit to schools, youth org.
Youth from a conference 2002 will start campaigns.
Schools: How to create smoke free spaces
Home: the chemical detector
campaign
Mail pamphlets to houses with info about how smoking affects people
Follow up- survey about tool kit. What was accomplished? Etc. Did it work? Keep
in touch among ourselves Tele-conferences, email, Web site Do this process again
adding new things with new people.
Team
5 -
press release
national newsletter, national newspaper articles, local news, stickers, brochures,
decals,
getting into schools (YAC and other interested youth) and running
workshops with local students
Children's posters in public areas (drawings
about smoke free spaces) Hold a contest: Young children would be asked to draw
how they feel when someone smokes around them. It would be publicized in a mall,
public center, etc. and there would be prizes. (Local media would probably cover
this just because it is an event)
" Scavenger Hunt" Local newspaper promote
a contest to find facts about smoking and smoke free spacesÉthe facts would be
left in smoke free spaces and there would incentive to find all the facts to win
a prize
HOW CAN WE CREATE SMOKE-FREE SPACES?
COMMENT POUVOUS-NOUS CRÉER DES ESPACES SANS FUMÉE?
Team 1 -
Change the cities' mind. Workshops, brochures, speakers and presentations. Get the government of your province involved. Contradicting the media's messages. Trying to get the government to feel more comfortable with giving up power. Dealing with teachers, other staff members and the whole government is a task that can be overcome in a positive manner but has to be done carefully. Working with the government instead of against. Have signs with a fact on them instead of a non-smoking sign if the storeowners do not want to make their business smoke free. Go directly to the government. Have their support and give them the support of yourself to take action. Keep restaurant owners informed and get the government involved.
Team 2 -
Each delegate becomes an advocate in his or her community. Contact teachers/nurses/councilors other youth. Write to your local newspaper. Send out press release. Speak to local politicians about the ideas that you have from the conference. Stay in contact and network with delegates and organizers. Make public service announcements. Contact graphic art students they get their message across. Contact media students to interview us. Radio stations looking for guests. Talk to local television stations about what you learned. Read materials on tobacco smoking. Put the information to the Web. Constantly stay in contact with the media. Stay informed about the laws. Newsletter on recent news about smoking spaces.
Team
3 -
-Ask government
for $$$$$$ to have smoking building
- Promote smoking cessation programs
-Government to pass laws that encourage smoke free areas
-Restaurants (small
ones) smoke free -Compliance checks
-Letters to the editor
-Signs where
people do smoke (gross pictures like the gasp magazine ones in public places where
smokers are)
-Sign contracts saying they won't smoke in certain in and around
areas that should be smoke free
- 30 hour smoke free famine
-Contest
(prize) try to go as long as possible without smoking a cigarette do follow up
during the week (maybe twice a week) to help and support everyone in program play
sports.
-Survey restaurants (most people would eat - out more if the restaurants
were smoke free)
Team 4 -
1: Work on the
communication plan (this is the most important part)
2: Start campaigns at
high schools (roundtables, youth conferences)
3. At elementary schools: Partnership
with High schools, school board, local organizations)
4. At houses in the
area: Detector campaign, get a sticker, survey
5. Go to individual businesses
to see if they want to try a week without smoking.
6 .With the results from
the campaigns, surveys etc. We'll talk to politicians (local, regional, national
level)
7 .Lobbying
8. Create smoke free by laws in every province.
Team 5 -
1) PSA with pregnant mothers: In a restaurant breathes in 2nd hand smoke, camera zooms down to fetus within mother, gasping for air. Message: shouldn't all places be smoke free spaces? Protect the youth
2)
Scene 1 - Girl A smoking (16) Girl B watching (12)
Scene 2 - Girl B smoking
(16) Girl C watching (12)
Scene 3 - Girl D watching (or something along those
lines)
No one will be smoking so the chain will end Message: "smoke free spaces leaves a lasting impression"
-Make smoke-free spaces more visible!