Dangers of Tobacco seminar

Buncombe County Schools is the recipient of grant funding from the Health and Wellness Trust Fund for tobacco prevention. As part of that grant, the schools will be hosting Rick Bender, an oral cancer survivor, as a guest speaker at several schools on April 5 & 6. Bender is a dynamic national speaker and former major league baseball player who travels talking mainly to school kids on the dangers of using tobacco, especially spit tobacco. He will speak at 8:15 am on Wednesday (April 6) at North Buncombe High School.