Students Sit Down to Stand-up For Their Beliefs


	Students Sit Down to Stand-up For Their Beliefs

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4-4-2008 5:24 AM

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CEDAR RAPIDS -- Government figures say more than 400,000 Americans die from tobacco use every year. Second hand smoke kills 53,000 people each year. </DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.kcrg.com/news/local/17248344.html">Now, a group of local high school students are trying to make those statistics drop.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.kcrg.com/news/local/17248344.html">Cities and states all across the country are banning or talking about banning smoking in public places.<BR /><DIV>Wednesday evening, some local teenagers stood-up for smoking reform by sitting down.</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.kcrg.com/news/local/17248344.html">The Cedar Rapids Olive Garden banned smoking in much of the restaurant back in August. But, people can still smoke in the central open-air bar and café.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.kcrg.com/news/local/17248344.html">Students say the smoke drifts into the rest of the building and puts everyone's health at risk.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.kcrg.com/news/local/17248344.html">"It's not right for people who want to have a nice dinner and sit down nicely to have to smell smoke while they eat," Marion High School student Danielle Mikkola said.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.kcrg.com/news/local/17248344.html">"It's not fun eating food that kind of tastes like cigarettes," Midland Community High School student Sabrena Hemsouvan said</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.kcrg.com/news/local/17248344.html"><BR />Students all over the country held similar</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/D819A721-2843-46D6-8D9F-21749E6EC4FC/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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