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In an effort to promote physical activity as a viable alternative to smoking, in 1994, CAAWS introduced the resource Evening the Odds: Tobacco, physical activity, and adolescent women. This resource provided parents, coaches, and teachers with timely and tailored information to assist them as they guided young women through adolescence and helped them embrace a healthy lifestyle. Mindful of the alarming rate of physical inactivity in young women, who are the fastest growing segment of the population taking up tobacco, CAAWS revised this worthwhile resource and modernized it for today’s physical activity leaders.

Active & Free, along with the Take 5 action primer, reflects CAAWS’s increasing efforts to assert the rights of young women to optimal health and quality of life through equity, physical activity, and sport.

"If you are a physical education teacher, recreational worker, parent, coach, or health promoter, this resource is specifically designed for you. Active & Free is a practical tool to support your work towards encouraging a healthy lifestyle for young women by keeping them physically active and tobacco-free… for life."