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Teens fuming over smoking ordinance

By Mike Monson
Thursday January 19, 2006

by John Dixon

Stephanie Clayton and Erik Antrim, both 18-year-old Champaign Central students, discus Champaign's new tobacco ordinance near the school on Wednesday. The ordinance will ban youths 17 and under from possessing tobacco products. Enforcement begins Feb. 1.

CHAMPAIGN – James Onderdunk, a 16-year-old junior, was smoking a cigarette around noon Wednesday outside Champaign Central High School when he learned that his tobacco habit, if repeated in front of a cop, could soon result in a hefty fine.

His immediate reaction was a profanity.

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