Tobathalon

General Description of Activity

• Relay Events: Get rid of that cigarette as fast as you can!

You can have a variety of relays so everyone can participate. First, decorate your baton (a track baton or an empty paper towel roll) with paper or paint to look like a cigarette. Then cover the cigarette baton with hazard and warning labels. For example, use the Surgeon General’s warning. Be creative and make your own! The rules are: everyone needs to get rid of the “cigarette” as fast as they can by passing it off to their teammates. 

• Shot Put Event: Crush Big Tobacco!

The “Crush Big Tobacco” shot put event is done just like a normal shot put event.  The shot put is thrown by athletes and the one who throws it the farthest wins.  The field is marked with distance lines at 10-yard intervals, but with the distance marker lines you have a variety of options:

• You can decorate posts to look like cigarettes for each distance line.

• Make a line of tobacco ads for the kids to aim for as they throw the shot put.  You can also create your own markers.  Be creative! Just be sure everyone knows they’re crushing Big Tobacco!

• Long Jump Event: How far will you go to stay tobacco-free and stop Big Tobacco?

If you have a long jump pit at your track, all you have to do is let kids take turns jumping. If not, you can perform this event on a field as well, all you need is a line for them to start running from, a line to jump from, and a tape measure to keep track of how far they jump.

• Additional Ideas:

Make posters with tobacco statistics on them and line them up around the inside or outside of the track. This way people can read some of the statistics while running by and realize all of the harmful effects of tobacco.