through mainly three ways, interactive commu-nity projects, educational trainings that facilitate mentoring of the Lawton-Ft. Sill middle school SWAT team and role mod-eling for other youth, and policy advocacy. The Lawton-Ft. Sill SWAT Team dedicates all of its time and energy into creating informational, interesting, interactive, and fun op-portunities for the com-munity to reach out to the youth and expose the lies of Big Tobacco.

The Lawton-Ft. Sill SWAT team consists of a grow-ing group of high school students from all three high schools in the imme-diate area. All our mem-bers are determined to nip the tobacco industry in the cigarette butt. With the goal of exposing the lies of Big Tobacco, the team hopes to fulfill our mission statement, To Empower and Unite Youth to Resist and Expose Big Tobacco’s Lies while Changing Current Atti-tudes about Tobacco! The team hopes to get the message across to any adult in our community and in the nation who can

and will do something to better the community and the country, but the team’s primary target audience is today’s

youth. Today’s youth is the strongest force against the tobacco in-dustry because without us they have no future customers. These goals and our mission state-ment are achieved

Our objective with this exhibit is to show, through different pieces of art, how tobacco af-fects the lives of the members of our commu-nity. Additionally the SWAT Youth hope to im-prove the health of our community by educating

people about the haz-ards of second hand smoke through emotive and educational pieces of art. This exhibit in-cludes seven exhibits, Tribute Wall, Testimo-nial Video, Event Video, Through Another’s Eyes, Shoe Tribute, Cigarette

Display, and The Last One. The Team hopes for these exhibits to be edu-cational, interactive, and emotionally moving. We thank every one who comes and encourage you to fill out an evalua-tion before you leave. THANKS!

SWAT HS Team

Who is SWAT? I n s i d e t h i s i s s u e :

Tribute Wall 2

Testimonials 2

Tobacco Butt Pick Up & Do Your Part

2

Through

Another’s Eyes

3

Shoe Tribute 3

Cigarette

Display

3

The Last One 4

What is This Exhibit?

SWAT Art Exhibit A p r i l 5 , 2 0 0 8 - M a y 4 , 2 0 0 8 Program Created by: Tomara Fizzell

P a g e 2

"It's not enough that we do our best; sometimes we have to do what's required."

-Sir Winston

Churchill

First Tribute tiles made while

wall was in Central Mall

Testimonial Video

Tobacco Butt pick up & Do Your Part

Tribute Wall Over 100 tiles were created when we featured this wall in Central Mall in De-cember. Community members paid trib-ute to loved ones lost to tobacco, pledged to be to-bacco free or gave encouragement to loved ones trying to

quit. These will be the first 100 pieces displayed on the wall but visi-tors of the exhibit are encouraged to utilize the paper and markers avail-able to create their own tiles on the wall. The idea for this wall was in-

spired by other SWAT teams throughout Okla-homa who have engaged their com-munity in thinking about how tobacco affects all of us by publicly creating and displaying walls like this one.

support. Addition-ally a display of to-bacco trash col-lected at two differ-ent park clean-ups run by the Middle School team at Lib-erty Lake Park and McMahon Park. This exhibit actu-

In this Exhibit there is information about the benefits of a to-

bacco-free recreational facilities or-dinance and a petition for you to sign to show your

ally shows how much tobacco trash is littered throughout the rec-reational areas in our community. Do your part and sup-port our cause by signing the peti-tion.

about why tobacco control is impor-tant to them and how it affects their lives. The video will be run on an indi-vidual DVD screen as part of the ex-hibit. The video in-

spiration came from SWAT Media Chair Joshua Trope who designed, shot, and edited the piece with the assistance of Me-dia Chair Tomara Fizzell.

The SWAT youth were inspired to tell their story of why they care about the SWAT program and tobacco control in their community. The youth recorded a few seconds

Park clean-up at McMahon Park

S W A T A r t E x h i b i t

Through Another’s Eyes P a g e 3 V o l u m e 1 , I s s u e 1

This photojournalism piece depicts how things are not always as they seem.

By taking photos of places in the commu-nity and then show-ing the presence of tobacco in our com-

munity the hidden message is revealed. The exhibit piece is in-teractive and involves statistics and written word. The piece was primarily designed and created by Research Chair Rebecca Pollard and team member Alexsas Rhodes.

show community members what haz-ardous and carcino-genic chemicals are within the ingredients of a cigarette. The in-formational ingredient list was created by President Sarah Byrd

A mock cigarette is on display with of all the products in a cigarette. Also included are ex-amples of household products that these ingredients are also found in. The exam-ples are meant to

and the items displayed were gath-ered by the SWAT youth. The labels were made by Alexsas Rhodes. The mock ciga-rette was created by Shawn Bethel.

smoke. After the Ex-hibit many of the shoes will be donated to a local charity. This idea has been utilized by other SWAT teams in Oklahoma. Addi-tionally different sta-tistics representing

the toll tobacco takes on lives have been shown nationwide through similar shoe displays.

The SWAT team dis-played 375 pairs of shoes gathered by community members and SWAT youth to represent the number of Oklahomans that die in just 6 months from second hand

Rebecca Pollard giving Speech at

2nd Annual Legislative Breakfast

Shoe Tribute

Cigarette Display

Shawn Bethel speaking at 2nd Annual Legislative Breakfast

“If the whole world followed you, would you be pleased with where you took it?”

-Neale Donald Walsch

This exhibit is a photojour-nalism piece created using photo editing and design and manipulated color to depict the loss of life attrib-uted to tobacco use. This project was led by SWAT Media Chair Tomara Fizzell who shot and edited all the photos. The design and

story board of the project in-volved a team of SWAT youth including: Sarah Byrd, Kylee Johnson, Shawn Bethel, Jessie Williams, and Jessica Davis.

Questions? Contact Ashley Herrin (580)585-5406

Special Thanks To: -Comanche County Memorial Hospital -Museum of the Great Plains -Community members who contributed to the completion of this event -Adult sponsors: Ashley Herrin, Sandy Foster, and Margaret Grimes -SWAT Parents

SWAT TEAM MEMBERS: President: Sarah Byrd

Vice President: Kylee Johnson

Secretary: Chantal Rollerson

Treasurer: Jessica Davis

Researcher: Rebecca Pollard

Media Chair: Tomara Fizzell and

Joshua Trope

Memory Keeper: Shereyl White

Team Members: Jessie Williams, Al-

exandra Trammell, Vertell White,

Alexsas Rhodes, Shawn Bethel, and

Monique Camacho

Lawton-Ft. Sill SWAT

The Last One

Title of piece: The Last One

A photojournalism piece

The Lawton-Ft Sill SWAT Team was named the National Youth Advocacy Group of the Year for 2008 by The Campaign for Tobacco Free Kids. If you want your youth to be involved in this Award winning group fill out an applica-tion today or Contact Ashley at 585-5406!

www.okswat.com