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Mother Inspires Anti-Tobacco Initiative  

A program to educate local students about the dangers of tobacco was inspired by an Ohio County woman - a 29-year-old mother of five children who is not expected to live much longer.

Ohio Valley Medical Center announced Thursday it will receive a $9,000 grant from the American Cancer Society in support of its effort to warn children in Ohio and Marshall counties of the consequences of smoking.

OVMC is one of 19 recipients of funding in the seven-state region from Georgia to Delaware.

The program is an effort to prevent children from ever smoking . . .

The program was initiated by medical oncologist Nadeem Ikhlaque, who is the physician liaison with the OVMC Cancer Committee.

Ikhlaque decided to organize the effort after treating an Ohio County woman who has been smoking since age 9. He said the woman's lung cancer can be attributed only to her 20 years of smoking.

Ikhlaque said the woman's children likely will become smokers, even though smoking eventually will claim their mother's life.

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