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With the coming of the New Year, many of us made promises to ourselves to stop smoking. With conviction and will power, some of us will overcome an addiction to one of the world's most addictive drugs. Yet as nearly every adult smoker finds themselves at some point wanting to stop, and nearly every parent (smoker or otherwise) hopes their children do not develop the habit, our region has developed a youth smoking rate that is double the average.

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Dear Editor:

With the coming of the New Year, many of us made promises to ourselves to stop smoking. With conviction and will power, some of us will overcome an addiction to one of the world's most addictive drugs. Yet as nearly every adult smoker finds themselves at some point wanting to stop, and nearly every parent (smoker or otherwise) hopes their children do not develop the habit, our region has developed a youth smoking rate that is double the average.

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Dear Editor:

With the coming of the New Year, many of us made promises to ourselves to stop smoking. With conviction and will power, some of us will overcome an addiction to one of the world's most addictive drugs. Yet as nearly every adult smoker finds themselves at some point wanting to stop, and nearly every parent (smoker or otherwise) hopes their children do not develop the habit, our region has developed a youth smoking rate that is double the average.

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To the 80 or so children about to attend a new Aboriginal pre-school program, the singing, drumming, story-telling and language learning in Blackfoot or Cree will be lots of fun.

But the program goes beyond play. The Calgary Aboriginal Head Start Program is also designed to help three-to-six-year-old children see themselves, life and learning in a positive way.

"We try to get (the children) ready for school," said Magdalena Hellebrand, program director for the Head Start program at the Plains Indian Cultural Survival School in southwest Calgary.