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REACT youth program stages dramatized presentation on tobacco industry targeting of teens
Summary
REACT Against Corporate Tobacco presented a dramatized program combining student performances, corporate-file quotations and personal testimonies to illustrate how tobacco companies have targeted young people and the harms that follow.
REACT Against Corporate Tobacco presented a dramatized program at a community meeting describing how tobacco companies target teenagers and the consequences that follow. The presentation mixed student performances, excerpts from internal tobacco-industry documents and personal testimonies from people whose family members died of lung cancer.
Organizers said the program — part of a statewide youth-led prevention effort — uses education, media, activism and art to help teenagers recognize and resist commercial messages promoting tobacco. “This group is called REACT and it stands for REACT Against Corporate…
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