March 26, 1998 | Read Time: 1 minute
The Kansas Health Foundation is sponsoring a computer giveaway sweepstakes to encourage schoolchildren to visit its Web site and learn about the dangers of secondhand smoke.
The site offers an informational tour led by an animated character called Professor Healthsinki, whose rhyming messages explain what secondhand smoke is and the health hazards associated with it. At the end of the brief lesson, kids can enter their school in the contest to win a free computer.
Kansas Health Foundation officials say they decided to set up the Web-site contest to accomplish two goals: to make children more aware of the dangers of smoking, and to increase the access kids have to computers and technology.
Even schools without computers are able to participate in the foundation’s sweepstakes: They were mailed contest entries, as well as images from the Web site and information on second-hand smoke to distribute to youngsters.
To get there: Using World-Wide Web software, type http://www.KsKids.kansashealth.org.
