Chicago Tobacco Prevention Project: PSA Contest Flyer

FYI, please share this information. The deadline is April 30^th for submissions.

share the truth about tobacco

Break out the flip cams and audio recorders! If you're between the ages of 12 and 18, we want to put your TV or radio commercial on the air to share the truth about tobacco. Make it edgy, funny, serious or emotional... just show us how tobacco has affected you, your loved ones or your community in a 30-second commercial. Prizes include scholarships, a laptop, Flip cameras, concert and sporting event tickets. Entries are due by April 30th. Click here for complete rules or go directly to our online entry form.

SUGGESTED THEMES:
Entries are encouraged to incorporate one of the following themes, or to represent a completely different creative concept that “shares the truth” about smoking and tobacco.

• What would you say to tobacco execs if you had the chance? Big tobacco spends billions of dollars marketing tobacco products to hook teenagers on their deadly products: How does that make you feel?
• Smoking kills: Cigarettes and secondhand smoke contain more than 4,000 chemicals. Smoking causes nearly 1 in 5 deaths, or 443,000 deaths per year. What does this mean for your friends and family?
• What would it take to stop your friends/family from smoking? What images or motivations could convince them to quit for good?
• Imagine a smoke-free world. What would that look like? How would policies and attitudes need to change to make that possible?

ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA AND RULES:

• The contest is open to Chicago residents who are between the ages of 12 and 18 until April 30, 2011.
  NOTE: In order to comply with the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act, all contest entrants who are under age 13 at the time of entry must download and fax this parental consent form in addition to completing the online submission form in order for their entry to be considered complete.
• Entrants may not be employees or relatives of employees of (a) Respiratory Health Association of Metropolitan Chicago (RHAMC), (b) Chicago Department of Public Health (CDPH), or (c) community partners and/or media partners of the Chicago Tobacco Prevention Project.
• Entries may be submitted by individuals or groups of up to four people.
• Multiple entries are permitted.
• Entries must be received by 12 midnight on April 30, 2011.
• Entries at www.QuitWinChicago.com are preferred. Alternatively, entries may be mailed on either CD or DVD format to Respiratory Health Association of Metropolitan Chicago at 1440 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, IL 60607. Respiratory Health Association and contest sponsors are not responsible for entries received after the deadline due to postal service or other delays in transmission. Only one form of entry is required. Do not submit in both formats.
• Entries must be exactly 30 seconds long.
• Entries must be appropriate for public broadcasting and may not include: profanity, youth smoking, violence or bullying, images attacking a specific tobacco company, materials protected by copyright or trademark laws or other images deemed by contest organizers in their sole discretion to be inappropriate for broadcast.

For additional information please go to http://quitwinchicago.com/