Jump to full article: Bennington (VT) Banner, 2007-12-31
Author: MIKE GLEASON, Staff Writer
Intro: A recent report issued by the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids ranks Vermont 16th in the nation in terms of funding efforts to keep children from smoking. . . .
Krawczyk said that her group had surveyed local middle schoolers and found that 40 percent of them think young people start smoking "to be cool." Krawczyk said her group was working on ways to battle the perception that smoking is cool.
"There's a Web site, called www.8outof10.com, that's aimed at correcting the misconception that a lot of kids smoke," Krawczyk said. "Twenty-seven percent of middle school students think the majority of high school students smoke."
Krawczyk also said a new campaign coming next year will focus on the way smoking is portrayed in the movies.
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