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Doug Cuthand, The StarPhoenix, January 25, 2008
This was national non-smoking week, but how many people knew that? For some reason it slid under the radar when it should have been shouted from the rooftops.
About 20 per cent of youth in Canada aged 15 to 19 years smoked, compared to 82 per cent of First Nations adolescents of the same age group.
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