Some 70 high school students recently completed training in the dangers of tobacco use and have created their own unique prevention message to use with sixth grade students at schools in both Kankakee and Iroquois counties. Five juniors and seniors were selected from each high school. The T.A.T.U. program is funded through the Tobacco Education Initiative Settlement.
Smoking is the number one preventable cause of death in the United States.
The program is being made available to area students through the I-KAN Regional Office of Education's Life Education Center program. For more information, call Brenda Wetzel, LEC coordinator, at 937-2950.