An estimated 65 teens start smoking every day in Washington. Like other reality-based shows, it's a mix of everyday action footage and monologues that give the inside scoop on what the teens think of each other. The first episode is light on gossip. They hardly know each other yet. To begin, Thomas drives her van full of smokers to a Seattle office building where a sprawling conference room has been converted into the living quarters where the group hangs out.
Girls sleep in one room, boys in another.
Eric Dobson, a senior at Seattle's University Prep High School, says it took a while getting used to the cameras. In the first segment, they lounge on couches, listening to Thomas tell her story. After getting pressure to quit, she was caught smoking in a bathroom-a low moment that convinced her she had to kick her habit. In upcoming episodes, teens visits an autopsy room at the University of Washington Medical Center, where they get a chance to hold two lungs in their bare hands-one healthy and pink, the other charred after years of smoking. They also get winded running drills with Lin Dunn, coach of the WNBA's Seattle Storm.