Hello from smoke-free Mumbai, India!  It has been an exciting trip so far.  I am here with youth advocates from around the world, attending a youth pre-conference to the World Conference on Tobacco or Health. I am working with three youth from Tunisia and threee from Algeria from the American Cancer Society's Travaillons Sans Fumée (Working Without Smoke) campaign.  And there are also youth advocates and other partners from across the U.S. - New York's...

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 Get ready for a GYAT reunion – in India! GYAT members from across the U.S. worked with GYAT members in India to coordinate youth advocacy trainings in Lucknow, India.  They held a candle light vigil, met with the media, and spoke with public officials. They also joined GYAT members from Brazil, Nigeria, and Sudan to attend the 2006 Global Youth Meet on health in Agra, India. Holly and I had an absolute ball, as you...

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 What happens when nearly 100 young people come together from more than thirty countries around the world? The Global Youth Advocacy Training! Watch as these young activists march the streets of DC – protesting smoking in movies, asking the U.S. Trade Representative not to give tobacco special treatment, and ending at the White House, calling upon the U.S. to ratify the global tobacco treaty. And that’s not all – learn about their protest of the...

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