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Jump to full article: Columbus (NE) Telegram, 2008-05-10
Author: Julie Blum
Intro: COLUMBUS -- Each of the 1,200 flags sticking up from the ground represented one person who will no longer be living after today.
Dubbed Project 1200, the display is set up on the south side of Scotus Central Catholic. It was organized and put up this week by Scotus juniors Krista Mulligan and Nicholas Raimondo, who serve as state youth board members of No Limits, a Nebraska anti-tobacco movement that is led by youth.
Raimondo said they put up the display to get out an important message.
“The number 1,200 represents the number of people who die every day in the U.S. from tobacco,” Raimondo said.
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According to its Web site, www.nolimitsnebraska.com, the group is so named because there are no limits to what the tobacco companies do to market their products, and there are no limits to what teens in Nebraska will do to stop them.
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