MEDIA ADVISORY from San Diego Unified School District - Kaiser Permanente Helps Clark Middle School Students Attempt Guiness World Record

Reporters and editors: Kaiser Permanente is holding this event tomorrow at Monroe Clark Middle School. If you have any questions, please contact Mina Nguyen, KP Senior Communications Specialist, (o) 619.528.7483 or (c) 619.517.9013. We hope you'll be able to cover this exciting and timely event.

Linda

MEDIA ALERT

Contact: Mina Nguyen, Kaiser Permanente Communications, (cell) 619-517-9013

Hundreds of Local Sixth Graders Pledge to Say NO to Tobacco Use
Monroe Clark Middle School Expected to Set a World Record for Tobacco Prevention Awareness

WHAT: In honor of the Great American Smokeout, 369 sixth graders at Monroe Clark Middle School will team up with Kaiser Permanente San Diego to "Say NO, Monroe," a public pledge to never try tobacco products. The students will participate in an hour-long workshop that will demonstrate the harmful effects of tobacco, marketing strategies designed to lure youth, real cost of smoking and the harmful impacts of diseases caused by tobacco. The students will attempt to set a Guinness Book of World Records for the Most Number of Attendees to participate in a Tobacco Awareness Program. An official Guinness Book of World Record adjudicator will be on hand to announce the moment the record is set.
In 1997, nearly half (48%) of male high school students and more than one-third (36%) of female students reported using some form of tobacco -- cigarettes, cigars, or smokeless tobacco products-in one month. The percentages went down to 30% for male students and 22% for female students in 2009.

WHO: Monroe Clark Middle School students
Rae Boganey, MD, Kaiser Permanente Director of Complete Care Management Program
Jim Malone, Kaiser Permanente Medical Group Administrator
Annnie Russell, RN, RNP, Kaiser Permanente Associate Medical Group Administrator
Tom Liberto, Monroe Clark Middle School Principal

WHEN: November 17, 2011, from 1:30 to 2:30 p.m.

WHERE: Monroe Clark Middle School, 4388 Thorn St., San Diego, CA 92105

VISUALS: Hundreds of students make public pledge to say no to tobacco use, videos of damaged trachea, pictures of tobacco effects on lungs and mouth. Demonstration of the various marketing strategies designed to entice children to try tobacco products.

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Linda Zintz
Communications Director
San Diego Unified School District
619-725-5578 (office)
619-847-6637 (mobile)
619-725-5576 (Fax)
lzintz@sandi.net

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