Durham teen wins $100,000 award
Published: Tue, Aug. 05, 2008 11:02AM
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closeA Durham teenager has won a $100,000 prize in the televised Teen Choice Awards for his anti-smoking campaigns.
Chad Bullock, 19, a Durham native and graduate of the Middle College High School at Durham Technical Community College, won the program's "Do Something Award." The show aired Monday night on Fox.
Bullock was selected for the award in online voting.
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Bullock, who attends Nyack College in New York, has worked with a number of campaigns aimed at discouraging children from smoking and helped persuade the Durham Bulls to make its ballpark a smoke-free facility.
He has also been active with the National Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids, which in 2006 named him a Youth Advocate of the Year.
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