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Maine Youth Takes on Big Tobacco 

The Partnership for a Tobacco-Free Maine and the Maine Youth Action Network (MYAN) along with a Youth Planning Team is hosting the 5th Annual Stop. Quit. RESIST! Anti-Tobacco Summit, which brings together youth from all over Maine to join with adult advocates to fight against Big Tobacco. The Anti-Tobacco Summit will be held at the Augusta Civic Center on Thursday, April 30th and Friday, May 1st. Participants who attend the Summit will gain resources, connections, and skills from various workshops that strive to give participants tools and information to make the communities of Maine healthier.

Since 2005, the Stop. Quit. Resist! Summit has promoted three main goals. The first is to stop the big tobacco companies' lies by exposing the truth. The second goal is to help people who smoke to quit the habit and to teach youth who do not smoke how to support individuals who are trying to quit. The last goal that the Summit promotes is to help youth resist the pressure to smoke and to help others do the same. Those three main principals have made this Summit a success from the start.

This year's keynote will feature Rick Stoddard

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