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Copper Canyon AcademyCOPPER CANYON ACADMEY is an all girls school in Rimrock, Arizona. COPPER CANYON ACADEMY offers an extremely comprehensive therapeutic program for girls and their families through individual, group, and animal therapy. There are also parent seminars and family workshops. All of the therapists who work with the teenage girls and their families at COPPER CANYON ACADEMY are licensed by the Arizona Board of Behavioral Health Services.


EXCEL ACADEMY
EXCEL ACADEMY has a Junior High School, a College Prep High School, and a College program, enabling us to help preteens, teens, and young adults. EXCEL ACADEMY boasts a compelling history of success with students who have had previous school or therapeutic failures. EXCEL ACADEMY offers an intensely effective milieu without the look and feel of traditional programs and places a heavy emphasis on ensuring that all students feel safe and part of "the family" regardless of past environment, behavior, ethnicity, sexual orientation, or history of abuse or trauma.

Smoking Laws Cut Down Teen Rates of Cigarette Use

Teens who live in towns where there are strict bans on smoking in restaurants and public places are 40% less likely to become smokers, according to a new study in the Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine.

Researchers from the Boston University School of Public Health kept track of 2,791 children ages 12 to 17 living in Massachusetts over a period of four years. In towns without smoking bans, about 10% of teens developed a smoking habit compared to 8% who lived in towns with such rules. The study also found that having a parent or friend who smoked increased the chances of a teen's experimenting with cigarettes.

Lead author Dr. Michael Siegel said that smoking laws discourage tobacco use. "There is really no other smoking intervention program that could cut almost in half the rate of smoking," he said. "When kids grow up in an environment where they don't see smoking, they are going to think it is not socially acceptable."

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