Event discourages children, teens from tobacco use

There was plenty of fresh air flowing throughout the Kick Butts Day Health Fair on Sunday at Reading Junior Academy on Kenhorst Boulevard.

The free event sponsored by Adventist WholeHealth Network, a Wyomissing nonprofit health organization, was designed to discourage tobacco use among children and teens.

An acrobatics performance by the Aerial Aires of Blue Mountain Academy highlighted the health fair, which also offered food, door prizes and family-friendly activities from 1 to 4 p.m.

The fair also featured information booths to help prevent children from starting to smoke and to help those with current tobacco habits create a plan to quit and get healthy.