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EHS students push for no smoking policy 

“We’ve had games we’ve gone to and as you’re coming off the sideline, you walk into a cloud of smoke,” she said.

Dickerson said it was one of the reasons she and fellow EHS students are starting an anti-smoking campaign that will include an appeal to the Eudora USD 491 Board of Education to ban smoking on all district property. The campaign will start with the posting of signs asking people to abstain from smoking at Friday’s football game.

The students — Dickerson, Bria Carder, sophomore, Cecilia Lehman, junior, and Dalton Hladky, senior — were organized by Eudora USD 491 prevention specialist Chrissy Mayer, who is employed by the district as part of the federal Safe Schools/Healthy Students Grant awarded the district last year.

The group is called Teen Teams Talking Tobacco, or T4, and it recently received a grant of $1,250 from the Tobacco Free Kansas Coalition to implement youth activities targeted for tobacco use prevention in Eudora.

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