Flash mob message
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Tuesday, April 2, 2013 12:48 AM
A "flash mob" took the gym floor and told the student body at a Cortez Middle School assembly how tobacco companies target adolescent youth with clever marketing and sweet-flavored additives, hoping to make them lifelong users at an early age.
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More than 30 Cortez Middle School students rushed the court for a flash mob during an assembly last week, to warn their peers against smoking.
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Students covered their T-shirts with personalized messages. One girl listed the names of two grandfathers and an uncle she never got to know; they died of lung cancer, either before she was born or was too young to remember. Value life (versus) being cool and fitting in, her shirt read.