Vermont Kids Against Tobacco (VKAT) is a Vermont program paid for by the Tobacco Settlement money through the Vermont Department of Health. VKAT is a middle school leadership program that focus' on healthy choices, health, activity, substance use and particularly the dangers of tobacco products

VKAT youth have attended statewide trainings and a day in Montpelier meeting with politicians, presenting educational programs and holding a parade through the center of Montpelier carrying banners and wearing costumes.

Throughout the year VKAT youth have advocated for Smoke Free Zone signs at WUHS/MS, taught elementary school youth, sent letters and petitions to President Obama and local politicians, educated middle school students at Kick Butts day and later ran a raffle and displayed no- smoking messages at a dance. The 2009 VKAT created movie short "Tar Wars" was shown at school and at the Town Hall Theater in Woodstock.

This group is a presence in the middle school that lets their peers know about their stance on smoking.

In 2010, we intend to have an OVX group (Our Voices Exposed) group at the high school, which will focus on many of the same issues as VKAT with a greater emphasis on advocacy and targeting opinion at "Big Tobacco."