Taking a stand against smoking and vaping | Education | leader-call.com – leader-call.com

Laurel High School senior Malcolm Terrell gave a brief presentation to the Laurel City Council at Tuesday mornings meeting about the work he is doing with his fellow students. He is the student leader of the BY Youth Tobacco & Vaping Prevention Program at LHS. I present my peers with information about the dangers of smoking and vaping, he said. Edward Clark, who is the regional director of the program, was with Terrell and introduced him to the council. The grant-funded program was developed in 2018 by Mississippi State University and the state Department of Health to target primarily high-poverty, high-risk secondary schools in the state. Its stated goal is to mobilize youth activists to promoted tobacco-free environments and increase youths affinity toward anti-tobacco branding and messaging ... to disrupt and dissolve the tobacco industrys targeting of vulnerable communities. The programs brand BE YOU was later shortened to BU. (Photo by Mark Thornton)

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