STOP SMOKING

It was an unusual Assembly for Juniors and Seniors today. top-ranked BMX riders and professional Skateboarders were set to perform on a portable half-pipe set-up in the parking lot but it started to rain. So we ended up in the Gymnasium.

A great BMX rider did his amazing tricks for close to a half-hour while a trained professional emcee spoke about deaths caused by smoking. The emcee spoke of the deaths caused by 1st and 2nd hand smoke, the # of deaths per year, the poisons inside tobacco ( arsenic and cyanide are two, ) and smoking correlations with death around the world.

A lot of students were listening and watching a the same time. After the BMX demonstration, students were able to win shirts if they could answer questions and statistics that had been mentioned about smoking. It was both fun and exciting for the audience.

In 2000 ASA Entertainment created the ASA High School Tour (Tour), a traveling action sports exhibition that visits cities across the United States supporting the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids. It was an exciting way to raise awareness amongst young adults about the harmful effects of using tobacco. This spring, the ASA High School Tour, in partnership with the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids and the U.S. Marine Corps, brings the world’s best action sports athletes back to high schools across the country to show kids that it’s cool to be tobacco-free.

The ASA High School Tour features the world’s top professional skateboarders, BMX riders and inline skaters performing mind-boggling aerial stunts on a state-of-the-art half-pipe in front of tens of thousands of students each year. The pro athletes and tour emcee speak passionately to teens about the importance of refraining from tobacco use in order to maintain a healthy lifestyle. With its positive peer-to-peer anti-smoking message and incredible "wow factor", the ASA High School Tour has become one of the top attractions at schools across America.

Currently scheduled to perform at the spring stops are top BMX vert stars Jay Eggleston (Denver, CO), Jimmy Walker (Gilberts, IL), John Parker (State College, PA), Austin Coleman (Lake Forest, CA), Koji Kraft (Chicago, IL) and Zack Warden (St. Louis, MO); BMX flat land legends Trevor Meyer (Little Rock, AR) and Gabe Weed (Walnut Creek, CA); skateboarding pros Jay Stevason (Toronto, CAN) and Anthony Furlong (Tampa, FL); and inline skating World Champion Eito Yasutoko (Kobe, JAPAN).