PEDIATRICS Vol. 102 No. 4 October 1998, pp. 1003
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To the Editor.
On November 9, 1995, Secretary of Education Richard Riley
visited Herbert Hoover Middle School in Potomac, Maryland, as a guest
of the American Academy of Pediatrics (in its efforts to draw attention
to the Food and Drug Administration's proposed regulations of the
tobacco industry). While he was at the school, he saw a variety of
anti-tobacco projects: students e-mailing the White House to support
tobacco regulation, anti-tobacco posters in foreign languages displayed
in the hallways, and several classroom presentations, including a skit
performed