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Best to not smoke 

Laurier students express anti-smoking message in murals
Jump to full article: Scarborough (ON) Mirror (ca), 2008-02-12
Author: MIKE ADLER

Intro:

In the movies, cigarettes attach themselves to glamour and good looks.

But at Scarborough's Sir Wilfred Laurier Collegiate, cigarettes have fangs and bushy eyebrows. Leering from students' murals in one of the halls, they look distinctly dodgy.

Ontario Health Promotion Minister Margarett Best came to thank students of the Guildwood Parkway school for their anti-smoking work with T-DOT (Tobacco Don't Own Toronto) and other groups.

Some made it clear to Best, elected last year as their MPP for the riding of Scarborough-Guildwood, that they want to see smoking disappear completely.

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