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Jump to full article: WWTI NewsWatch 50 ABC (Syracuse, NY), 2009-06-03
Intro: Several North Country high school students helped make a statement in New York City about smoking in movies.
They were among more than 200 high schoolers demanding that major motion picture studios eliminate smoking and other tobacco imagery from youth-rated movies.
One of those attending last weekend's demonstration was Alaina Mallette, a senior at General Brown.
She's also a member of Reality Check, an anti-smoking movement sponsored by the state Department of Health. Ms. Mallette says Hollywood is paying only lip service to the problem of movie promotion of smoking.
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