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Legislation targets tobacco advertising that targets youth 

Exeter Hospital staff, U.S. Sen. Jeanne Shaheen and local youths on Monday called for tobacco companies to stop targeting youths.

Shaheen visited Exeter Hospital to spread word of the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act, legislation she is co-sponsoring that is currently up for debate on the U.S. Senate floor. The legislation would give the Food and Drug Administration legal authority to try to reduce youth smoking by stopping both tobacco advertising that targets children and the sale of tobacco products to minors.

"I think it's great to see something moving in a positive direction," said Cyndi Burke of HealthReach Community Education. Burke said she is a former smoker who has been cigarette-free for six months and whose father died from emphysema and grandfather from lung cancer.

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