Louisiana Tobacco Control Program

Celebrating Smokefree Voices," a YouTube video contest

Publish date: May 17, 2010

The National Cancer Institute's Smokefree Women team is launching "Celebrating Smokefree Voices," a YouTube video contest, to capture the quitting experiences and reasons for quitting smoking among women and friends/families across the U.S.

The contest launched, Monday, May 10th -- the one-year anniversary of http://women.smokefree.gov. ; See below for more details.

Be Smokefree! A Chance to Win... Smokefree Women is launching a video contest - Celebrating Smokefree Voices. We want to capture the variety of quitting experiences and reasons for quitting smoking among women and friends/families across the nation. Tell us why being smokefree is important to you.

There are two categories for video submissions:

1. Why I Am a Smokefree Woman: Create a video that tells others why you stay smokefree. What are your reasons and motivations? What does it mean to you to be a smokefree woman?

2. Why I Want YOU to be Smokefree: Is there a woman in your life that you care about who smokes? Create a video and let them know why you want them to enjoy a smokefree life and the freedom from cigarettes.

And, what's a contest without prizes? There will be three winners in each category with prizes up to $2,000.

All video entries must be submitted by June 4, 2010 along with the required video entry form ( http://www.women.smokefree.gov/videocontest_form.aspx )

Contest winners will be announced on July 2, 2010, right before Independence Day, to celebrate freedom (or "independence") from smoking.

Watch the call for submissions video ( http://www.youtube.com/user/SmokefreeWomen ) and help us advertise by passing along this one page flyer (PDF) ( http://women.smokefree.gov/smokefree-voices.pdf ). Visit http://women.smokefree.gov for video contest instructions.