Students from Carrboro High, Chapel Hill High and East Chapel Hill High got together on a Saturday to take part in Kick Butts Day and other activities at their schools to encourage their peers to not use tobacco products. All of the students are members of their school’s Tobacco Reality Unfiltered clubs.
The events were part a series of collaborative events between the Orange County Health Department and the Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools that advocated against tobacco use.
The official Kick Butts Day was March 19 but the students cleaned up butts March 15. They cleaned up thousands and were part of a smoking response team outreach event along Franklin Street in Chapel Hill into Main Street in Carrboro.
Kick Butts Day is observed nationally as a day of activism that empowers young people to “stand out, speak up, and seize control against the tobacco industry.”
