FP Report -- September 1998 Tar Wars book cover project discourages tobacco use, promotes poster contest
Young artists who submitted the winning posters in this year's national Tar Wars poster contest will see their work displayed (or at least carried in backpacks) throughout the country. Small versions of the top posters are featured on Tar Wars book covers -- highlighting artwork, protecting school books and disseminating anti-tobacco messages to children all at the same time.
The program's national book covers include four different designs, each with the winning poster art. They also list the "benefits of not using tobacco": white teeth, no "zoo breath," a healthier heart and lungs, no burn-holes in clothes, more money to spend on other things, and more friends because most people don't smoke.
AAFP constituent chapters are encouraged to contact the printer, Walraven Book Cover Company in Richardson, Texas. The company has the book cover template and can tailor the book covers with artwork of local and state poster contest winners.
Many states mandate book covers to keep textbooks clean and eligible for resale. To order the book covers for your young patients, contact your Tar Wars state coordinator. If you don't know who he or she is, call (800) TAR-WARS to find out.
FP Report is published by the AAFP News Department. Copyright © 1998 by American Academy of Family Physicians.
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