City joins the fight to reduce teen smoking
October 4, 2010
By Staff
Mayor John Dulcich announced at the Sept. 21 City Council meeting that the council would declare the second week in September as King County Quits! Week, and that the council would support the effort to reduce teen smoking by 50 percent by 2020.
Other cities across King County, the American Heart Association, the American Lung Association, the American Cancer Society, the American Diabetes Association and the Washington Health Foundation made the same declaration.
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Good goal. Hopefully our City Councilmembers that smoke will pledge publicly to give up the cigs and/or cigars to show the leadership.