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High school senior creates winning billboard design 

Eric Hancock says one classroom session was all it took to come up with a design that soon will appear on anti-smoking billboard ads in Wisconsin.

A teacher had approached him about the billboard-design contest to replace the tobacco signs that must come down . . . Along the top of a picture of a cigarette, it reads, " Smoking your life away?"

Below that, a cigarette is divided into parts that represent a person' s life, Hancock said. The last line at the butt of the cigarette is the end of life, he said.

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