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PROCLAMATION <br />RECOGNIZING MARCH 19, 2014 AS KICK BUTTS DAY <br />IN INDIAN RIVER COUNTY <br />WHEREAS, in Indian River County nearly one fourth (24.3%) of all high school students and 7.4% of Indian <br />River middle school students used some form of tobacco in the past 30 days; and <br />WHEREAS, nearly 90% of current smokers began their addiction to tobacco before the age of 18, and more <br />than a third of all kids who ever try smoking a cigarette become new regular, daily smokers before leaving high <br />school; and <br />WHEREAS, tobacco use is the leading preventable cause of death in the United States, killing over 430,000 <br />people each year; more than AIDS, alcohol, car accidents, murders, suicides, drugs, and fires combined; and <br />WHEREAS, Kick Butts Day is an annual national initiative by the Campaign for Tobacco Free Kids that <br />encourages kids across the country to stand up and oppose efforts of the tobacco industry to manipulate them <br />through advertising and marketing; and <br />WHEREAS, Kick Butts Day, 2014 is sponsored locally by the Tobacco Free Partnership of Indian River <br />County, Quit Doc Research & Education Foundation, and Students Working Against Tobacco (SWAT) that prepares <br />middle and high students as leaders in the fight against tobacco use; and <br />WHEREAS, the children of Indian River County declare they will no longer tolerate the tobacco industry's <br />efforts to manipulate them into becoming tobacco users and replacements for the industry's customers who are <br />quitting and dying; and <br />WHEREAS, Indian River County SWAT schoolchildren wish to inform peers and adults about the harmful <br />effects of tobacco use and the industry's intent to replace vanishing customers by addicting children; and <br />... WHEREAS, Indian River County wishes to support its children by opposing through Proclamation the <br />marketing of tobacco products to children by the tobacco industry with the intent of making them replacement <br />customers. <br />NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT PROCLAIMED BY THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS OF <br />INDIAN RIVER COUNTY, FLORIDA, that the Board does hereby declare March 19, 2014 as Kick Butts Day in <br />Indian River County. <br />Duly adopted this 18th day of March, 2014 <br />BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS <br />INOI R IVER C.QUNTY, F6, IDA <br />Chairman <br />i <br />Wesley S. Davis, ice Chairman <br />Flescher <br />Bob Solari <br />Ti Zorc <br />3 <br />