Each school in Wisconsin may enter two of the posters its students create. The deadline is March 1, 1999.
Tobacco takes a heavy toll on Wisconsin children.
The AMA-RPS is sponsoring the contest. Students may use pencils, markers, paints or crayons to create the poster, but may not use computers. The judges will select one state winner and four runners-up. The state awards will be announced at the SMS Annual Meeting in Madison on March 19, 1999. The State Medical Society of Wisconsin, established in 1841, is the first and largest physician and patient advocacy association in the state, representing more than 8,000 member physicians and their patients.