ADRIAN — The Lenawee County Health Department and the Lenawee YOUTH Council are recognizing World No Tobacco Day with their annual clothesline project at the Human Services Building on Winter Street in Adrian.
Teens hung nearly 150 shirts on May 11, each representing a tobacco-related death in Lenawee County last year.
The display will remain up for about two weeks. Organizers say smoking remains the leading cause of preventable death locally, killing more residents than AIDS, alcohol, auto accidents, drugs, opioids, murders, and suicides combined.
The project aims to raise awareness about the dangers of tobacco use ahead of World No Tobacco Day on May 31.
For information, contact the Lenawee Community Foundation at 517-263-4696.