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East Texas Kids Celebrate Texas Tobacco Free Kids Day 

Jump to full article: KLTV ABC 7 (Tyler, TX), 2008-04-02

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Many East Texans participated in an event to encourage students to live tobacco free lives. Wednesday is Texas Tobacco-Free Kids Day and students at schools across East Texas demonstrated on the downtown Tyler square, wore t-shirts, and learned about the awareness of tobacco use and second hand smoke. At various schools 66 teachers and students wore black shirts with tobacco facts on the font and back. The number 66 represents the number of people that die every day in Texas from tobacco related deaths.

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