NONSMOKERS & NON TOBACCO USERS
ARE A MAJORITY AND COOL

 

Butt Ugly is an anti-tobacco group that travels to the schools bringing the message that tobacco is "Butt Ugly"! We do this through the use of actors and a drama presentation.

By way of our presentation, we also correct misperceptions about smoking.

Audiences, such as you, often overestimated how many of same-age or older peers either currently smoke or have tried smoking. The audience is often surprised to hear how few students - especially in high school - are smokers.

For smokers, learning that the majority of their classmates intend not to start smoking is an eye opener! If you are already smoking you should realize all the negative effects of smoking and how hard it will be to quit later.

 

Butt Ugly Teens know:

• It's Not Cool
• Not everybody's doing it

It's addictive.

Is the smell worth it?

Myth
Serious effects from smoking or chewing occur later in life.

Fact
As soon as you start smoking or chewing it negatively affects your health.

Myth
If you only smoke or chew once in awhile you are not addicted.

Fact
Most full time users of tobacco started part-time then needed more to get the same result.

Myth
Chewing is a better choice than smoking

Fact
A more reasonable alternative if you want to chew would be to try gum!

DID YOU KNOW?

• In Alberta, tobacco kills the equivalent of a school bus full of children everyday.
• Nicotine is a deadly poison. One drop in it's liquid form will kill you.
• Tobacco companies manipulate the nicotine level in tobacco to deliberately hook people.
• As soon as you start smoking or chewing it negatively affects your health. (It is commonly thought the harmful effects occur later in life)
• If you only smoke or chew once in awhile you may still be addicted (Addiction and it's long-term affects is the most serious hazard of tobacco)

Here's a sample.
Ammonia - a poisonous gas and toilet cleaner
Arsenic - a rat poison
Acetone - paint stripper Formaldehyde - to preserve dead frogs - and other things
Polonium 210 - a radioactive element
Carbon monoxide - a poisonous gas, car exhaust

• Tobacco use causes serious health problems and early deaths:
  Heart disease,
  Cancer,
  Emphysema,
  Stroke.
• Smoking reduces the amount of oxygen in the blood which seriously affects your ability for sports and other physical activities.

Disgusting but true! Smokers and Chewers are exposed to over 4000 chemicals in a cigarette and 2000 chemicals in chew and forty of them are known to cause cancer.

It is important to us to present smoking as a negative behavior in a way that does not make smokers feel ashamed as people.

We hope all of you get our message that tobacco (smoking or chewing) is "Butt Ugly".

Watch for us coming to your school or if you would like to have a presentation at your school talk to your teachers and direct them to this website.

Remember, invite your parents to the presentation at your school too!