Alpine students sign anti-tobaccco petition

Staff Reports

The Students Taking on Prevention Club a collaborative of the Alpine County Tobacco Education Department, and the Partnership of Community Resources, has joined the Teens Take on Tobacco in Hollywood campaign which is a campaign to reduce the impact of tobacco in movies, according to Alpine County Tobacco Eduation organizer Elizabeth McGeein.

On Feb. 22, the club held a movie night for junior high and high school aged youth, which was coordinated, and facilitated by Douglas High School students, who provided a short workshop on how the tobacco companies market and target youth in movies a petition to encourage movie studios to remove tobacco from youth related movies, or provide an "R" rating to any movie with smoking.