'Cool' Pupils Help to Stub Out Smoking

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SMOKING cigarettes and cannabis joints is often seen as the epitome of cool by impressionable youngsters in many Scottish schools.

But researchers have developed an innovative way of dissuading children from taking up these harmful habits: recruiting the most popular among them to spread a more healthy message.

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'Cool' Pupils Help to Stub Out Smoking

A pilot project, which was recently completed in schools in Lanarkshire, trains youngsters to weave information about tobacco and cannabis into their everyday conversations...

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