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By DORIS DONALD
Rappahannock Newt Contributing Writer
For students at Rappahannock County High School, Valentine’s Day may mean more than candy and lace hearts this year.
The Rappahannock County Unit of the American Heart Association will help teen-agers learn how smoking can affect their hearts through an anti-smoking program built around Valentine’s Day. The program, called “Save a Sweet Heart,” begins in RCHS on Feb. 14, and features a day of no smoking on Valentine’s Day.
Statistics indicate that, although smoking among teen-agers has declined since it peaked in the mid’70s, the decline has leveled off. An estimated 20 percent of high school seniors smoke, and a recent survey shows that smoking among girls ages 17-18 is at an all-time high of 26 percent.
Smoking has a well-documented relationship to increased disability and death due to heart disease, yet many teen-agers start smoking in school and continue the habit for the rest of their lives, said Dr. Gil Webb, president of the Rappahannock County U nit. —
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