Jump to full article: Salt Lake Tribune, 2009-03-13
Author: Donald W. Meyers The Salt Lake Tribune
Intro: A group of Utah County teenagers' efforts to reduce outdoor smoking is taking them to Washington, D.C.
Outrage, an anti-tobacco group sponsored by the Utah County Health Department, won the President's Environmental Youth Award for its support of a smoking ban in parks and outdoor public gatherings.
Jen Tischler, the county's tobacco prevention coordinator and Outrage's adviser, nominated the group . . .
Outrage's members collected signatures from thousands of residents supporting a smoking ban in parks, made presentations to the Board of Health and city councils, and even collected thousands of cigarette butts from parks to illustrate the problem.
Because of Outrage, the county adopted a regulation banning smoking in all parks, except in cities where there is already a smoking ordinance in place. . . .
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