
The letters below are testimonials from Death
Playing Cards customers.
To Whom It May Concern:
The Tobacco Education Clearinghouse of California (TECC) is a
project funded by the State of California, Department of Health Services. One of our
functions is to identify, produce, and disseminate outstanding tobacco education materials
to more than 400 agencies in California.
We have been distributing Death Cigarette Playing Cards, a
product of Death Playing Cards, since October 1991. This is the only product we currently
distribute that is not produced by a state-funded project. Death Cigarette Playing Cards
have filled a unique need of the tobacco education projects throughout the state. Sales
statistics reveal that this product is growing in popularity and is being used in
cessation and prevention programs targeting all age and ethic groups.
We are pledged to support this product with an aggressive sales
approach and we encourage your financial support of Death On Drugs and Death Cigarette
Palying Cards.
Sincerely,
Dona Lind
Clearinghouse Coordinator
Tobacco Education Clearinghouse of California
(800) 258-9090
(408) 438-4822
Fax : (408) 438-4282
Dear Mr. Weedon,
Let me congratulate you on your Death Playing Cards. I first
purchased your cards through TECC, the Tobacco Education Clearinghouse of California. When
my order arrived I knew that this product was special. I've wanted to write you a letter
since I first used the cards over a year ago.
The Death Playing Cards are exemplary in the field of education
and prevention for many reasons , but the most important are that the artwork and the
message to kids are the most effective that I've seen. The image of Death is a powerful
one, and the many macabre images hold the attention of all that view these cards. The
statistics are accurate and the messages are clear. Anyone playing with these cards has no
choice but to learn about the dangers of tobacco use.
As the health education specialist running the Multi-Cultural
Youth Initiative Against Tobacco, I review every educational product on the market. I
bring numerous educational products to give out as prizes in high school health and safety
classrooms, receiving home schools, court schools, correctional facilities, community
youth organizations and lock-down learning academies, and I have never had a response as
powerful as that from the youth with your Death Cards. Usually most hand-outs, and
sometimes even prizes, end up on the floor; not the Death Cards. Youth love these cards! I
have given out more than two hundred packs of these cards and the kids want more. I've
learned to give out the cards about fifteen minutes before the end of class, let the
students look through the deck, and then discuss the facts and statistics. I've asked
questions about Death Card facts and stats for weeks after passing out the packs. Death
Cards are an excellent educational tool for youth of all ages.
Thank you for a fine educational product that expertly
communicates pertinent information with the high-risk youth population. If possible, I
would love a sample deck of your new Death on Drugs Playing Cards. Keep up the good work,
and I'll be watching my mail closely...
Yours truly,
Brian J. McDaniel
The Bay Area Urban League, Inc.
430 Peninsula Avenue, Suite 3
San Mateo, CA 94401
Phone : (415) 343-6020
Fax : (415) 343-1864
Dear Mickey:
I was pleased to receive my latest order of Death Playing
Cards, (or 52 Reasons to Not Smoke Cigarettes). We have found them very helpful in terms
of getting the attention of both smokers and non-smokers alike.
For example, we've included a pack in each Smoker's Survival Kit
that we provide to teenagers in the local high-schools who are trying to quit. The teens
may not read the educational brochures or follow the suggestions in the quit guide, but
they can't resist playing with the cards, and thereby getting the message about tobacco
use in spite of themselves.
We've also found them to be a great hit when we've sold them
from our health education booth at local fairs and events. Parents buy them to give to
their smoking children (or vice versa), spouses for each other, employees for their boss,
and both smoking and non-smoking card players to take to their next poker or bridge game
where smoke is an issue, or where they want to make it an issue.
As a health educator, I find that the cards provide just the
right mix of education with humor, seriousness with irreverence, information that smokers
need to know in a mode they may actually be able to absorb--and are practical. Nobody's
going to throw away a deck of cards, even with a death's head staring at them from it. How
may other health education tools can we say that of?
Thanks for your contribution to the science of behavior change!
Sincerely,
Sue Severin, MPH
Health Educator
Tobacco Education Program
Marin County Health and Human Services
1682 Navoto Boulevard, Suite 150-C
Novato, CA 94947
(415) 899-8638
Dear Mr. Weedon,
ANSR has purchased the Death Cigarette Playing Cards from you
for three or four years. We have sold them through our small mail-order business. They
have been a big success at our booth at the Minnesota State Fair, where people can
actually look them over.
We've found that many people want to give them to those special
persons-- spouses, parents, girl friends or boy friends--whom they love and want to
protect from the ravages of tobacco-related disease. As your display carton says, they
want to "Help Save Someone's Life." The price is quite reasonable and allows us
a 100% markup--something few products do.
I wish you good luck in your endeavors to get the health message
across through Death Playing Cards.
Sincerely yours,
Sandra D. Sandell
Executive Director
Association for Nonsmokers-Minnesota
2395 University Avenue West Suite 310
Saint Paul, Minnesota 55114 - 1512
Phone : (612) 646-3005
Fax : (612) 646-0142
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