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Kids Launch Campaign Against Second Hand Smoke 

Children from Duluth's East Hillside shared results Thursday from surveys they conducted in hopes to end second hand smoke inhalation at DTA stations.

Children from the "Mind 2 Mind" summer camp program, along with the American Lung Association in Minnesota, have launched a tobacco free DTA campaign called "Let Us Breathe."

In the last three months the youth conducted 211 five-question surveys at the Duluth downtown transit centers.

The results found that 87% of respondents recognized that smoking around children at bus stations was a problem, and 75% wanted to see a change.

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