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 One of STAMP's major objectives is to have "Tobacco Control" postage stamps issued by the United States Postal Service each year on May 31st, World No-Tobacco Day. These Tobacco Control postage stamps would be the product of the previous year's National Art Contest.
From January 1 to December 31 of each year, an Art Contest will be encouraged to be conducted within each school, community organization, faith group, and such that would be receptive to hold just such an art contest. Then the winning artwork from any group would go on to compete at the next higher level within a city, county or state until the artwork finally competes with other winning entries from each of the 50 states within the United States. At this time the "tobacco control postage stamp" is just beginning to build momentum. It is hoped is that this idea will resonate with people across the country (teachers, artists, youth, survivors and others) that also believe that the United states is long overdue in issuing a tobacco control postage stamp. With your help, new stamps can be issued by the United States that not only go after the cure like the "Breast Cancer" stamp, but stamps that finally go after the cause of so much grief and death Tobacco! More than a simple picture, it is hoped that the very process of conducting an annual tobacco control art contest would create a new and dramatically effective process of educating both youth and adults about the dangers of tobacco use. As more information comes out about the health hazards and social implications of tobacco, it is hoped that the activity associated with the art contest would underscore why we need, not just another postage stamp, but why we need to better understand the urgency of stopping tobacco abuse pronto. Furthermore, this is very much a grassroots initiative. STAMP's dollars are few and manpower even less for properly implementing this project from the very start. But as it is quite evident that this is not a perfect world, so it is hoped that people such as yourself will forgive the shortcomings of this project and still grasp the significance this simple idea can have in making a friendlier, healthier, tobacco-free world. So for now, you are on your own for coordinating any local contest you may have in mind or prizes you may wish to bestow on your winning artist. However, benefactors are many and the needs of this project are few. To the best of our ability, STAMP hopes to provide you with the ideas, documents and procedures that may make this easy activity both fun and effective in reducing tobacco use in your community. FIRST: Please use the "Official STAMP Entry Form" for your local purposes and review the pages and photographs of this web site for ideas in conducting your own contest and public exhibition. Official STAMP Entry Form: SECOND: Conduct your contest and selected your winning piece of artwork. Make a color copy of your art if you wish to keep a copy. STAMP can not return any artwork nor make any promise of providing prizes of any sort. Please read Entry Form and the Rules carefully. STAMP will use this art to encourage a nation-wide initiative to create the United States first "Tobacco Control" postage stamp. Some art will be selected to go onto the Internet and be featured in exhibitions being used to educate the public on the dangers of tobacco use. Send only the winning #1 original artwork to STAMP : Stop Tobacco Abuse of Minors Pronto THIRD: Finally, after your contest and after you exhibition, send all your entries to the United States Postal Service. Attach a cover letter with your art that endorses the idea that the United Sates should create tobacco control postage stamps in four age categories that are then issued each year on May 31st, World No-Tobacco Day. Be sure to ask them to write you back on whether or not the United States will ever issue such a life saving postage stamp. The appropriate US Postal Service address is: United States Postal Service |