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Regular Session, 2014
SENATE CONCURRENT RESOLUTI ON NO. 12
BY SENATOR GALLOT AND REPRESENTATI VE HOFFMANN
LEGIS POWERS/FUNCTIONS. Designates March 19, 2014, as "Kick Butts Day 2014" in
Louisiana.
A CONCURRENT RESOLUTI ON1
To designate March 19, 2014, as "Kick Butts Day 2014" in Louisiana.2
WHEREAS, "Kick Butts Day" is a day of activism that empowers youth to stand out,3
speak up, and seize control against tobacco use at more than one thousand events planned4
across the United States and around the world; and5
WHEREAS, everyday, more than three thousand young boys and girls under the age6
of eighteen try smoking for the first time, and seven hundred become new, regular daily7
smokers; and8
WHEREAS, tobacco use is the leading cause of preventable death in the United9
States killing more than four hundred thousand people every year; and10
WHEREAS, "Kick Butts Day" allows America's youth the opportunity to raise11
awareness about the tobacco problem, encourage peers to be tobacco-free, and support12
effective solutions to reduce tobacco use; and13
WHEREAS, research studies have found that kids are three times as sensitive to14
tobacco advertising than adults and are more likely to be influenced to smoke by cigarette15
marketing than by peer pressure; and16
WHEREAS, a third of underage experimentation with smoking is attributable to17
tobacco company advertising and promotion; and18 SCR NO. 12
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WHEREAS, in Louisiana, more than six percent of middle school students are1
current smokers, along with twenty-four percent of high school students; and2
WHEREAS, in Louisiana, nearly fifteen million packs of cigarettes are purchased3
and smoked by underage youth each year; and4
WHEREAS, approximately one hundred nine thousand youth smokers in Louisiana5
will die prematurely from smoking-related diseases unless current trends are reversed; and6
WHEREAS, smoking kills more than four hundred eighty thousand Americans each7
year, representing more deaths from AIDS, alcohol, automobile accidents, murders, suicides,8
drugs and fires combined; and9
WHEREAS, most of these deaths could be prevented; and10
WHEREAS, the children of Louisiana will no longer tolerate the tobacco's efforts11
to manipulate them into buying lethal and addictive products through insidious advertising12
campaigns and marketing practices; and13
WHEREAS, the residents of Louisiana are encouraged to stand up with the children14
of Louisiana in opposition to the sale, advertising, and marketing of tobacco products to15
children.16
THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the Legislature of Louisiana does hereby17
designate March 19, 2014, as "Kick Butts Day 2014" in Louisiana.18
The original instrument and the following digest, which constitutes no part
of the legislative instrument, were prepared by Nancy Vicknair.
DIGEST
Gallot SCR No. 12
Designates March 19, 2014, as "Kick Butts Day 2014" in Louisiana.