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VIDEO: Heavy smoking on Mass. college campuses  

Jump to full article: WWLP-22News (Springfield, MA), 2009-11-09

Intro:

22News takes a hard look at cigarette smoking on Western Massachusetts college campuses.

This after a cigarette butt clean up on the Amherst campus of the University of Massachusetts yielded thousands of cigarette butts this weekend.

And that's just the butts that weren't properly discarded.

Students attending Holyoke Community College told 22News, "It's tough not becoming a smoker in this day and age. Holly Frederick told 22News "she started smoking because her father smokes". Nick Duclos told 22News, "It's hard not lighting up when all your friends are smokers".

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