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Show New smoke-free class of 2000 materials ready for second graders graders. Schools still desiring to participate with their second grade students and who wish to receive the materials should call 1-800-523-7472, or write: Smoke Free Class of 2000, 645 E. 400 S., Salt Lake City, UT 84102. The three health organizations believe that the anti-smoking message should be reinforced by schools using other comprehensive health-education programs. Each organization offers a program for use in the lower elementary grades. The programs are: "An Early Start to Good Health, " American Cancer Society; "Getting to Know Your Heart," American Heart Association; Associa-tion; and "Lungs Are for Life,' American Lung Associativa. The quest for a smoke-free society socie-ty in Utah and throughout the United States by the year 2000 is moving another step forward, thanks to the cooperative efforts of three of the nation's largest voluntary volun-tary health organizations and the Walt Disney Company. About 112,000 anti-smoking educational ed-ucational kits have been distributed to the state coalitions of the American Cancer Society, American Heart Association and American Lung Association nationally. The kits, which include materials created by Disney Educational Educa-tional Productions, will be distributed free to second-grade classrooms across the country that are participating in the Smoke-Free Class of 2000 project The SFC 2000 project is the educational edu-cational and awareness project developed de-veloped by the three health organizations in response to the U.S. Surgeon General's call for a smoke-free society by the year 2000. At the turn of the century when the students participating in the SFC 2000 project graduate from high school, they will become the nation's symbolic smoke-free generation. ge-neration. The project was launched last school year in more than 65,000 first grade classrooms nationwide and in almost 150 Utah schools as a way of reaching young people and encouraging them to not start smoking. smok-ing. The SFC 2000 project helps children reject smoking at age 6, the decision will be reinforced long before they encounter the pressure to start smoking. That happens in about the fourth grade. Gregory the Dragon, a character created especially for the project by the Disney organization, will be featured on the materials for the se cond garde classes. The materials include a "Dear Teacher" letter outlining learning objectives, a script for an anti-smoking play inspired in-spired by characters featured at EPCOT Center's new Wonders of Life pavilion, blackline repro masters for headbands that can be colored and cut out by students, discussion questions, suggested activities ac-tivities and a resource sheet. By using these new materials, the student will gain new skills and understanding to help them avoid smoking. They will positively express ex-press their opinion for a smoke-free environment. They will understand and express that other people's smoke makes eyes water, hair and clothing smell bad and is not good for the body. And the students will feel free to remove themselves from a smoke-filled environment. For the current school ear, 130 Utah schools have requested the SFC 2000 materials for their second |