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Once a year, before the end of school, the Alabama Board of Education, Alabama Department of Public Health and the Alabama Center for Disease Control get together and administer an anonymous survey for student's in grades 6-12 to fill out about smoking and tobacco use.

Last year, the results were mellow compared to this year's highs. Demetra Peoples, tobacco prevention coordinator for Alabama's Public Health Area 8, said officials were expecting lower numbers this year but were surprised to see them growing.

"The numbers did just what we didn't want them to do. They rose. So now we are trying to figure out ways to help reduce those numbers," Peoples said.

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