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EDITORIAL: The smoke-free room 

Conspiracy theories don't always assume the worst. Sometimes, they are downright optimistic. Here's one we like: In a smoke-free room somewhere in Salt Lake City, a plot was hatched to take on the tobacco industry's troubling success in luring more young people, particularly gay and lesbian young people, into the smoking habit. Representatives from the Utah Department of Health, the Gay Lesbian Bisexual Transgender Community Center of Utah and the Jordan School District were rightly alarmed by Centers for Disease Control data that show gay people between the ages of 18 and 24 are almost twice as likely as their straight peers to smoke.

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