Tobaction club sponsors anti-smoking contest
San Benito High School’s Tobaction club, a group of students who
are spreading the word about the hazards of smoking, announced the
winners of the 2008 anti-smoking poster contest. The club members
selected top winners and several honorable mentions.
Tobaction club sponsors anti-smoking contest
San Benito High School’s Tobaction club, a group of students who are spreading the word about the hazards of smoking, announced the winners of the 2008 anti-smoking poster contest. The club members selected top winners and several honorable mentions.
“What they try to do is get the danger out about smoking, chewing tobacco,” said Andy Prisco, the advisor for the group and a school counselor. “We will make prints of them and pass them out, and maybe even go out into the community.”
For the contest, students had to design a program and come up with a slogan that would promote the same anti-tobacco message as the Tobaction club.
Connor Pratt, a junior, took first place with his poster and slogan “Suicide.”
“My friend generated a photo of me using an effect on the computer,” he said.
In it, his face is distorted and his features are unclear. He rescaled the photo for the poster, drew it out and colored it in. The background of the poster uses bright waves of color.
“I wanted to make it like a pshychedlic poster from the ’70s and ’60s,” he said.
Second place went to Alexander Morones, a senior, who heard about the contest from art teacher John Robrock.
“I’d been looking at Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera,” he said, of his choice to do a day of the dead inspired poster. “I figured it’s day of the dad, and it’s dealing with something that makes you dead.”
He first heard he had won when other students came up and congratulated him.
“It was really exciting and it was fun doing it,” he said.
Pamela Recio, a freshman, took third place for her poster of a pregnant woman smoking. Her slogan reminds people that when they smoke, they affect those around them, too.
Sophomore Sienna Robrock received honorable mention for her poster “From Super Hero to Super Zero.” She used the Powder Puff girls as her inspiration, and transformed Buttercup into a rebel with a cigarette. Her bad habit gets her left behind by her friends.
Other honorable mentions went to Crystal Perreira, Kaitlyn O’Keefe and Natasha Moreno.
