UMass Is Kickin' Butts 

Students from UMass Amherst's Student Health Advisory Board had a clear message for the campus: Smoking is bad for you.

So what inspired their declaration?

The 33rd annual great american smoke out.

"A day in which we want as many people to quit smoking as we can," said board member Colli McKiernan.

So one of the ways they're trying to encourage people to stop smoking is by creating a visual display of cigarette butts. They collected all the pieces in one day and in just three hours. They were able to collect 12 lbs. of cigarette butts.

"It's pretty amazing," said McKiernan. "If you think about it in three hours we collected 12 lbs. One cigarette weighs like nothing."

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