BUTT KICKERS vs. BACCER TACKERS
2:00 P.M. Sunday, January, 16, 2000
South YMCA
Lexington, Kentucky
This may be the first ever where two organized youth basketball teams play with anti-tobacco names. Kentucky leads the nation with 47% teens and 30.8% adults that smoke.
All ten of the
BUTT KICKERS were interviewed for their game program The BACCER GOSPEL and here are some of the questions asked. (The BACCER GOSPEL will be given out at each of the 10 league games from January 16- March 19, in this program you will also discover that none of these ten 7-9 graders currently have girl friends.)Question: Had you rather ride in your car without your seat beat or ride with a smoker and all the windows
Nine out of the ten immediately answered without a seat belt.
Question: Do you see students at your school smoking or dipping?
Six out of the ten players stated that students smoke and dip at their schools either in the bathroom or in class.
Question: Why do kids start using tobacco? Nine suggested, because they think it is cool, peer pressure, and one thought that seeing smoking celebrities.
Question: What should, tobacco farmers should raise instead of tobacco?
Five didn't know, four said, corn, wheat, vegetables, hemp, and one suggested candy.
Marty B. of Nicholasville, Kentucky, a smoker and mother of twin
BUTT KICKER'S Jeremy and Jeffrey stated, " I am a smoker but I will do everything possible to keep my kids from ever smoking, the team name BUTT KICKERS does not bother me."The third team anti-tobacco team playing in this YMCA league is
The BACKER WHACKERSThose suffering from a tobacco related illness and family and friends of those that have died of tobacco addiction are specially invited to this historical and grassroots event.
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