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Subject: Hello Everyone!

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Georgina Lovell

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Date Posted: 09:39:39 11/25/02 Mon

Wow! I'm back home now after several weeks travelling through Nova Scotia with a stopover in Ontario on the way back to B.C. I've seen over 12,000 of you and thank you for visiting here and also the private emails I've had from so many of you.

T.C. - I LOVED the snow during the first winter storm you had in Nova Scotia. Inverness and what I saw of Cape Breton Island were very beautiful with a fresh snowfall.

H.A. - thank you for your kind comments. Talking to 700 of you during last class on Friday before a long weekend was a challenge, and you were a most attentive audience.

Bethany and Megan - you should have received a private email from me. Thank you so much for writing.

Angela - I'm sorry for your loss and thank you for sharing your sad story. One good source of videos sending a tobacco-free message is in the U.S. You might want to ask one of your teachers or your librarian to help you. The "Mind If I Smoke - Care If I Die" poster is also available in tee-shirts, very reasonably priced. Email me privately if you would like more information. In future visits I have a brand new Canadian-made video entitled "Deadly Chew" addressing the alarming increase in use of spit tobacco which some are fooled into believing is safer than smoking.

Click here for information about videos sending a tobacco-free message.

Click here to order free Christy Turlington posters.

Vee - Loved your message! I enjoyed the visit to Toronto, not a million miles away from where I used to go to school. Didn't even mind the snow! Congratulations on a smart move not to start smoking and thanks for your kind words - also for the good question you asked during the Q & A time.

C.H. - With so many of you having to board a bus back to your own school, time did run out quickly, didn't it? Good for your Dad, and good for YOU, for your decision not to smoke.

Chris - good question! The light/mild scam is currently being addressed in a Quebec courtroom because the claims are false that a so-called light cigarette is somehow not as dangerous to smoke. These things take time, and eventually the truth prevails.

Stacy - Thank you for writing! Glad you liked the tar-jar. That is most peoples' favourite, too. Pretty awful, huh?

Thanks again to you all. Our first group of Project Moving Target Tobacco Awareness Peer Mentors finishes up this week with the third of their three scheduled visits to elementary schools. We have more elementary schools requesting Peer Mentors than we have Peer Mentors to send, and another team will be completing the preparation classes in January. This pilot effort has exceeded the hopes of all of us - students, teachers and those younger children who didn't want our mentors to leave! A pizza party and presentation of Certificates of Achievement for our team is scheduled soon and I'll make sure some photos go up on the website.

Georgina

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