PASS-UMSL Activities

July 27, 2008 PASS-UMSL participated with a booth in the New Student Orientation Fair at the UMSL campus. They passed out information and asked new students to join their group. They also had a petition for a smoke-free campus.

April 26, 2008 PASS-UMSL was nominated for best new organization on campus for the Student Life Awards. "I was very proud that we got nominated," says Katie Moore, health promotion specialist for St. Louis. "It showed that we made an impression on the campus. I hope that next year we can do even more and that this would inspire other fellow students to join the cause for a smoke-free campus."

April 16, 2008 PASS-UMSL participated in Mirthday Celebration, an expo of student groups on campus. The students held a booth where they passed out information about secondhand smoke and quizzed passers-by on the number of smokers on the UMSL campus.

April 11, 2008 Katie Moore, health promotion specialist for St. Louis, gave a Fight Back Speech at the American Cancer Society's Relay for Life on the UMSL campus. She asked the crowd to help fight back by advocating for their peers and educating them on the dangers of secondhand smoke.

April 2, 2008 PASS-UMSL celebrated National Kick Butts Day with educational tabling at Millennium Student Center on the UMSL campus. PASS displayed 1200 shoes to represent the 1200 people who die every day from tobacco. The shoes were collected during the previous two months and afterwards donated to the Salvation Army. The organizers also continued to survey students about their tobacco use and attitudes and have received over 300 responses thus far

March 18-20, 2008 PASS-UMSL held their 2008 KISS ME campaign at Millennium Student Center on campus. They gave away T-shirts for completing surveys and distributed information on quitting smoking.

Feb. 25, 2008 PASS-UMSL students showed the movie "Thank you for smoking" at Oak Residence Hall. As part of the event they presented their group and its mission to the attending students and discussed smoke-free options for the campus.

Nov. 12-15, 2007 PASS-UMSL celebrated the 2007 Great American Smokeout with educational tabling on the University of Missouri-St. Louis campus. The three-day event featured giving out information on quitting smoking and T-shirts, exchanging cold turkey sandwiches for packs of cigarettes, and holding a raffle for a frozen turkey. About 200 people attended.

Aug. 22, 2007 Health Promotion Specialist for St. Louis Katie Moore organized a contact table at the student EXPO at the University of Missouri-St. Louis. Students saw the effects of smoking on a "mock" smoker's mouth and were encouraged to join PASS and help educate their peers about the dangers of secondhand smoke.