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Youth Protest Targets Tobacco

Young people from across New York marched in Niagara Square on Thursday, demanding that tobacco companies change in-store marketing tactics, which they say is predatory.

About 70 young people from a group that calls itself Reality Check held the spirited rally.

"We've seen enough. We want our change," chanted the demonstrators, who were sporting bright blue shirts. The demonstration was held across from City Hall, where a plan to pass one of the nation's toughest laws regulating the sale and advertisement of tobacco products has gone nowhere for more than a year.

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