A History of SWAT in Photos SWAT Leadership Training

March 17, 2008

2000: Launch/Teen Summit I Jeff Wigand…the original

“Insider”

2000: Teen Summit 1

Telling the

TRUTH while doing Sumo!

Hundreds of youth leaders taking

charge….

2000: The First SWAT Board of Directors

2001: 6,000 Hospital ID BandsEach year 6,000

people die in Oklahoma from

tobacco products

2001: Youth Press Conference

2001: SWAT Visits Jay Leno

2002: Youth United in Truth

2002: Youth Access Protest

SWAT was in the USA Today

newspaper demanding that

retailers act more

responsibly!

Over 250 youth from across the state came

to protest on a school

day!

2002: Enid SWAT Taking Charge

2003: Youth Leadership in Action

2003: Smokeless Tobacco Out of Bullnanza Rodeo!

Remember Sean Marsee, OK teen who died from spit tobacco use

2003: Youth Leadership in Action

2003: OK Restaurant Association

Check out the 5 foot tall internal tobacco industry doc that exposes the relationship between the OK

Restaurant Association and

Philip Morris!

2004: SWAT Leader Presents in Boston at National Conference

2004: SWAT Sit-In at Denny’s

We want clean indoor

air!

2004: SWAT Presents in Washington D.C.

2004: Teen Summit 2

2005: Youth Leadership in Action

SWAT youth painting a mural

2006: Youth Leadership in Action

Atoka youth presenting in

Denver on spit tobacco

2006: Youth Leadership in Action

2006: Operation Storefront

2007: Teen Summit 3

2007: Youth Leadership in Action

Thank You!

Jennifer WilsonState Program Coordinator

Students Working Against Tobacco