Posted on 08/06/2006 11:03:32 PM PDT by at bay
Not many know Debi Austin by name. But it's hard to shake the image of her in the public service announcement where she takes a drag from a cigarette through a hole in her throat. The Stanislaus County Office of Education is counting on Austin, a longtime smoker who had her larynx removed because of cancer, to deter local students from using tobacco.
"It's amazing how many of our young people are smoking," prevention director Vicki Bauman said.
"They're resilient and they think they're untouchable. Sometimes you have to use the shock factor."
Thursday, nearly $330,000 in tax money from cigarette sales filtered down to the county office of education for anti-smoking education.
Statewide, nearly $10 million in Tobacco-Use Prevention Education money was given out to 42local education agencies.
Other local recipients included the Tuolumne County SuperintendentofSchools office, which received nearly $130,000, and Manteca Unified School District, which received more than $37,000.
Schools get $90,000 grant
Bauman said four county junior high schools earned a share in a separate, one-time $90,000 grant for prevention efforts. At least 50 percent of students at those schools said they were thinking about smoking or were smokers, according to a California Healthy Kids Survey during the 2004-2005 school year.
At the junior high and high school levels, Bauman said, prevention efforts include speakers such as Austin and field trips to local hospitals to visit patients with emphysema and severe asthma. Peer groups also are formed to help kids quit smoking, she said.
Bauman said there is a trend of young girls becoming smokers to curb their appetites and lose weight.
To try to change their minds, the girls' photos are put into a computer and age-progressed to show the effects of smoking for 10 or 20 years, Bauman said.
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The wording leads a reasonable person to believe "after 20 years" refers to after 20 years of smoking. I am happy for her that she was able to quit. She and her daughter probably have really good beauty genes and may be real lookers to boot.
So.. in your eyes any smoker is a "dirtball worthy of execution?" And you wonder why people jump all over you and your anti smoking brainwashing?
At least 50 percent of students at those schools said they were thinking about smoking or were smokers, according to a California Healthy Kids Survey during the 2004-2005 school year.
A really sad statistic considering what we now know. This is part of the reason I will not allow Shelyin and others to blow their brand of smoke unchallenged herein.
Don't hold your breath. Oh, wait a second, you can't. Nevermind.
As in "I am puzzled why he doesn't pay any child support?"
No so. So nothing. As in, you are so no so. Have you seen that crayon fill-in drawing on the back of the new Cocoa Krispies box? That could be fun for you.
You are a nasty piece of work, aren't you? I truly pity the people that must be around you, thankfully I'm not one of them.
Its OK.. people like him are one of the many reason I enjoy smoking. It annoys them no end. Just to see the stress on their faces when I light up negates any "health effects" it may have on me. :)
I understand your position.
However, when one makes a claim of willing to apologize for comments and then does not, and just adds even nastier comments my patience only goes so far.
Nice pix. Truth be known, Debie has been taking puffs through that throat-hole for years. Talk about milking an attention getter!
The sniveling coward didn't ping you to the latest insult.
The sniveling coward is also a liar...........
I know you, but what am I?
I was planning on going fishing when hubby gets home from work..............
Golly gee whiz! What did I miss? hehe
Thanks for the ping, I guess. I see the comment was removed? Is that right? 
I don't think She Lyin can hear you, as articulate as your post was. And I'm starting to wonder if the smokers use FR with a hidden agenda, i.e., the backing of the powerful tobacco industry. She Lyin's constant use of repetitive mini-dramas- ("And needless to say, I never go out anymore, blah blah blah") make me wonder if her cutback in smoking expenses aren't from rolling her own, but maybe tons of free complimentary smokes from the folks most grateful for her constant harping.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1670124/posts?page=71
Ugh! Thanks for the ping.....................I think. LOL
I can't for the life of me, understand how THAT can get away with THIS!
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