Colegio Alfa & Omega’s ESO 1 Campaign Against Smoking
For the second year in a row, Colegio Alfa & Omega wins first prize - Valencian Community - in the annual European smoke-free class competition. Started in Finland in 1997, this is an annual school-based European smoking prevention project whose overall goal is to reduce smoking in youth. More than 600,000 European students participate in the competition each year.
Research has shown that there is a strong positive correlation between the age of starting to experiment with cigarette smoking and the probability of becoming a regular smoker. Therefore the principal aims of the smoke-free class competition are to delay or prevent the onset of smoking and the reduction or cessation of cigarette smoking in students who have already experimented with smoking.
The general rules are (a) the classes decide to be a non-smoking class for a duration of six months; (b) the classes themselves as well as the teachers monitor smoking status of the pupils and report on it regularly; (c) regular smoking is not accepted; and (d) if pupils experiment with smoking once, the class can still participate in the competition.
Classes also create and present their own anti-smoking campaigns as a part of the competition. And from being confined at home, Alfa & Omega’s ESO 1 class together with their music and ethics teachers have made this great video clip, Congratulations to all!
