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The Anti-Tobacco Education Class (ATEC) is provided by Bridgeway Center, Inc. Driving Schools and is required for persons cited under section 569.11, Florida Statutes:
possession, misrepresenting age or military service to purchase, and purchase of tobacco products by persons under 18 years of age prohibited; penalties; jurisdiction; disposition of fines.
The cost of the class is $25.00. (*Please note: This is a separate fee from the citation fee to the Clerk of Court.)
Pre-registration is required; call 850-833-7474 or 850-689-7938 for class location and more information. You may download the enrollment form by clicking on this link.
- Every day, several thousand adolescents in the United States light up their first cigarette, according to the statistics compiled by the American Cancer Society. That means that more
than a million kids will start smoking this year! A third of those new smokers will eventually die of tobacco related diseases.
- 89% of people who ever try a cigarette try by age 18. Almost no one starts the smoking habit during adulthood.
- 70% of adolescent smokers say they would never have started if they could choose again. That's because the nicotine in cigarettes is addictive. The risk of becoming addicted to nicotine is between one in
two and one in three.
- Tobacco is responsible for nearly one in every five deaths in the United States. It is the largest cause of preventable death.
- More than 400,000 people die every year from smoking-related diseases. That is more than from alcohol, crack, heroin, murder, suicide, car crashes, and AIDS combined.
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