Abstract
A HEALTH education poster campaign in primary schools was launched as part of a strategy to combat glue-sniffing. Six different posters were commis sioned, and evaluation sought to discover which was most effective. Over 200 children and adults took part in the survey, which discovered a unanimity of view among both groups.
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