For the Maryland TRASH program, what I am planning on doing over the next few months is youth outreach. Specifically, by spreading the word in schools. In order for our organization to thrive, we need younger and younger kids to become involved and understand the dangers of tobacco. We also plan on reaching out to minority groups such as the African American and Latino communities. We have organized a Lunar New Year festival for the Asian community and plan on bringin in anti-tobacco themes into the festival.
- Lucas

What we're doing right now is we're trying to get the school board support. And we're going to be testifying in front of the school board by having the County Council President, Bill Andrews gather a meeting with the President and Vice President of the school board. We're trying to eliminate smoking on school ground and we have created a survey that actually shows the reality of how much smoking is really going on in school including the bathrooms and in the back of the school.
- Mai

Hello to all of you out there. I don't know if all of you go through what I might go through but I know that most of you have. My mother is a smoker and it affects me in every way it effects her but, what I go through is a little bit more hurtful to me than it is her. Her smoking USED to effect me in school just because I smelled like tobacco smoke. All of the other students would make fun of me. I would come home most days depressed but now I do certain things so the smoke doesn't effect me in school. I always keep disinfectant on hand and just spray my room three times a day. The smell is no longer in my room or clothes. So now I go to school not smelling like tobacco smoke. I am proud to say that I stay in my room all day long and smell "So Fresh and So Clean!" So if you just happened to go through what I went through use this method and you don't even half to tell your parents why you are doing this.
- Andrew Dill, ROJA

Since my brother has been smoking just about all his choices has been wrong. He doesn't think about what he is doing. He will smoke around his child, now the baby has ashma.
- Rita, Project Exhale

At age 41, with two small children, I was diagnosed with oral cancer. I had quit smoking three years prior, but it take ten years for the effects to leave one’s body. I had smoked for 26 years–no great surprise as I grew up in Kentucky, a tobacco growing state. After the removal of a section of my tongue and months of recovery, I was cured.

Luck was with me, but you shouldn’t count on luck; count on good choices.
- Julie Good, Kick Ash Club, Students Oppose Smoking (SOS)