USEFUL SLOGANS

FOR TWENTY YEARS The Clean Air Team awarded an annual cash prize of $100 to the winner of a month long, statewide contest for the best original one-line slogan to foster courtesy on the part of smokers. This competition was announced on the first of December yearly, with the deadline being midnight on the last day of that month. Participants could submit an unlimited number of entries. The $100 prize was presented during the first week of January, and then the winning slogan became our official "annual banner" throughout the new year. Here's a complete list of all winners, beginning with a pair of precontest slogans devised by members of The Clean Air Team:

1976 - Mahalo For Not Smoking (Mahalo is Hawaiian for “thanks”)

1977 - Foul Air Is Bad For Humans

1978 - Don’t Put Your Cloud Of Smoke Between Us (First contest)

1979 - We Need More Outspoken CLEAN AIR ADDICTS!

1980 - Clean Air Doesn’t Need Additives

1981 - Show Others You Care, Don’t Poison The Air

1982 - If You Smoke, Don’t Breathe It To A Soul

1983 - It’s Time For The Ashtray To Go The Way Of The Spitoon

1984 - Be Defensive When Smokers Are Offensive

1985 - Contributions To Air Pollution Will Not Be Accepted

1986 - Secondhand Smoke Is A First Class Nuisance

1987 - Keep Your Smoking Problem To Yourself

1988 - Spare Our Air, Smoke Elsewhere

1989 - Smokers Pass Noxious Gas

1990 - Smoking Smothers Others

1991 - Smokers Are Stinkers

1992 - Nonsmokers Do It Without Puffing

1993 - Smoking Is A Social Disease

1994 - Pass Up The CANCERettes

1995 - Smoking Privately Is SUICIDAL, In Public It’s HOMICIDAL

1996 - Outlaw Poison-Puffing In Public Places

1997 - Stop Allowing Indoor Air Pollution

1998 - Don’t just say “pollution” — say POLLUTION PEOPLE

1999 - Pollution People Should Be Kicked Off The Planet!

2000 - BAN FILTER CIGARETTES (they become litterettes)

A few slogans became our standard antipollution ads.