A peer education worker and a youth worker are being recruited to co-ordinate G Up, a project developed to pioneer youth-led approaches to smoking prevention and cessation.
The project will involve 12- to 15-year-olds working with children aged nine to 11, based on a peer education system already used to steer children away from drugs and alcohol.
The teenagers will lead the design of the smoking prevention work as part of the Dundee City Council-funded Peer Education Project, involving 90 trained peer educators aged between 13 and 17.
Fiona Bryson, peer education project leader, said the decision to extend the scheme to smoking was influenced by the high political profile anti-smoking legislation has had in Scotland. "You can't hit people over the head and say you're not allowed to smoke, without providing some form of support," she said.
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