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Atlantic youth heads anti-smoking group 

While some in the community mock the state's new Smokefree Air Act, Iowa's youth anti-tobacco movement, Just Eliminate Lies, has a virtual memorial wall filled with notes to loved ones who have died from smoking or are still alive and smoking.

One note reads, "Mom, you think I don't know you smoke, but I do. Please, please, please stop. Dad, thank you for stopping."

JEL is an organized group of Iowa teens united to counter Big Tobacco's efforts to addict people to their deadly product and a movement determined to bring to light the true health and economic effects of tobacco as well as the countless lies and cover-ups of the tobacco industry.

"We are not taking the rights away from smokers, it's protecting the health of the public," said C.J. Petersen, founder of the Atlantic chapter and newly elected president of JEL. . . .

For more information and/or to join JEL, go online to www.jeliowa.org.

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