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EIU Invites Community Residents to Kick Butts Day Activities

Apr-01-2009

Community residents are invited to join Eastern Illinois University students, faculty and staff as they participate in local activities for Kick Butts Day, a nationwide initiative designed to stop youth tobacco use.

Activities will take place between 10 a.m. and 1 p.m. Saturday, April 4, at Charleston 's Morton Park.

In addition to a community picnic, where local vendors and businesses will have booths filled with free food, games and information regarding tobacco use and the effects it has on one's health, a Kick Butts Day 5K Walk/Run is planned.

Registration for the walk/run is $10 for EIU students and $20 for all others; registration forms for that event and additional information about all of the day's activities are available at http://www.eiu.edu/herc.

Tobacco use is the leading preventable cause of death in the United States, killing more than 400,000 people every year. Every day, more than 4,000 kids try their first cigarettes; another 1,000 kids become addicted smokers, one-third of whom will die prematurely as a result.

 

 

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Josh Reinhart,
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Booth House
Eastern Illinois University
600 Lincoln Ave.
Charleston, IL 61920
217-581-7400
jdreinhart@eiu.edu


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