Red Carpet Premiere Showcases Student Anti-Tobacco Public Service Announcements

WHAT:
A “RED CARPET” event will take place in the City of Santa Ana to showcase two tobacco-free Public Service Announcements (PSAs) created by youth attending Orange County High School of the Arts.  The students’ winning PSA scripts were chosen among several entries in the Health Care Agency’s Tobacco Use Prevention Program’s (TUPP) “Tune Out Tobacco” PSA workshop project as best in countering the positive portrayal of tobacco in the media. 

WHEN:       Thursday, February 24 at 11:50 a.m.

WHERE:     Orange County High School of the Arts
1010 N. Main Street, Santa Ana, CA  92701

WHO:         Authors of the winning PSAs, students and administrators from Orange County High School of the Arts, and local community members will be on hand to support the premiere of the PSAs.

WHY: Every day, more than 3,000 young people under the age of 18 begin to smoke.  The “Tune Out Tobacco” PSA workshop project is aimed at countering the positive portrayal of tobacco in movies, television, billboards, magazines and store advertising. For more information, please call the Health Care Agency’s TUPP program at  (714) 541-1444.